Celebrating World Support Staff Day

Today in Parliament, Abigail passed a motion recognising World Support Staff Day and celebrating the vital role support staff play in our schools, thanking them for their essential contribution to building an inclusive and equitable education system.

Abigail said:

I move:

That this House notes that:

- Friday 16 May 2025 was World Education Support Personnel Day or World Support Staff Day, which was created by Education International, the global federation of more than 370 education unions, including the Australian Education Union, the Independent Education Union of Australia and the National Tertiary Education Union, to give visibility and recognition to support staff, their work and their contribution to quality education;
- World Support Staff Day celebrates the vital roles of support staff in realising the right to education, fostering positive, safe learning environments and supporting and sustaining our educational communities, including teacher assistants, administration officers, business managers, Aboriginal education, youth workers, community liaison officers, library technicians, VET coordinators, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and other staff in non-teaching roles;
- support staff are part of the education community, and play an important role in ensuring that the academic, socio‑emotional and practical needs of each individual student are met; and
- all support staff across our education systems deserve the right to fair and equitable pay and entitlements, fair and safe working conditions, quality terms of employment and the right to contribute to and participate in the decision‑making of their educational institutions.

That this House recognises the important role of support staff in an equitable and inclusive education system, and thanks all support staff across New South Wales for their dedicated commitment to keeping our schools running, supporting students and ensuring quality education for all.

Motion agreed to.

Read the transcript in Hansard here.

5 June 2025

A UNIVERSAL WELLBEING PAYMENT FOR NSW

No matter who you are or what you do, everyone has the right to share in the wellbeing of our country.

But at the moment the essentials so many of us need – a place to call home, food on the table, and everyday essentials like electricity, internet, medicine and water – are simply out of reach.

Instead of supporting us, our government is choosing to prop up huge corporations with massive subsidies, and to give away our collective wealth through record tax cuts for the wealthy. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left to live paycheck to paycheck or trapped in the dehumanising bureaucracy of our existing welfare system.

Now, in the midst of a pandemic, and following quickly on the heels of the bushfire crisis, more of us than ever before are experiencing what it’s like to lose our jobs, be without a home, or worry about where the food for our next meal will come from.

It’s time for us to choose to prioritise the wellbeing of everyone.

And that’s exactly what the Universal Wellbeing Payment will do.

It’s a regular payment made to each of us to ensure our minimum standard of wellbeing. No means testing, no bureaucracy, no strings attached.

It’s the amount you’re owed simply for being a participant in our society.

It means you are free to live your life and contribute to society as you see fit, whether you’re a carer, an artist, a student, a parent, an entrepreneur – you can get on with what you need to do, knowing that you will always be supported regardless of your income.

It means that we’re choosing to structure our economy for the benefit of all of us, not using our collective wealth to prop up the interests of big business and the wealthy few.

It means you will always have what you need to live a good life, no matter what.

The Universal Wellbeing Payment is for everyone. Help us make it happen.

For more information, head to universalwellbeingpayment.com.au

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