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Sydney Morning Herald
07-08-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘Modern-day bullying': Minister asks striking teachers to consider premier's feelings
Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek has asked striking teachers to consider the impact of personal call-outs to politicians on the placards they carried at Wednesday's rally. Some 50,000 members of the Queensland Teachers' Union stopped work for the first time in 16 years this week, with thousands rallying on Parliament House in Brisbane, demanding better pay and conditions from the state government. In budget estimates on Thursday morning, Opposition education spokeswoman Di Farmer presented a stack of placards used during the strike that had been inspired by the classic children's book series No, David! by American author David Shannon. 'The first page says 'working nights, weekends, and holidays, that's not funny', and they say 'David', but obviously referring to the premier,' Farmer explained. Farmer asked Langbroek to hand the placards to Premier David Crisafulli. Langbroek agreed the signs should be tabled, but said he doubted it was an 'appropriate' way to deliver the concerns to his leader. 'People should be looking at the things that [the teachers] write ... in my view this can be seen as modern-day bullying,' Langbroek said. He added that politicians were 'all happy to cop cartoons' but some messages had crossed lines.
The Age
07-08-2025
- Politics
- The Age
‘Modern-day bullying': Minister asks striking teachers to consider premier's feelings
Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek has asked striking teachers to consider the impact of personal call-outs to politicians on the placards they carried at Wednesday's rally. Some 50,000 members of the Queensland Teachers' Union stopped work for the first time in 16 years this week, with thousands rallying on Parliament House in Brisbane, demanding better pay and conditions from the state government. In budget estimates on Thursday morning, Opposition education spokeswoman Di Farmer presented a stack of placards used during the strike that had been inspired by the classic children's book series No, David! by American author David Shannon. 'The first page says 'working nights, weekends, and holidays, that's not funny', and they say 'David', but obviously referring to the premier,' Farmer explained. Farmer asked Langbroek to hand the placards to Premier David Crisafulli. Langbroek agreed the signs should be tabled, but said he doubted it was an 'appropriate' way to deliver the concerns to his leader. 'People should be looking at the things that [the teachers] write ... in my view this can be seen as modern-day bullying,' Langbroek said. He added that politicians were 'all happy to cop cartoons' but some messages had crossed lines.
