John Battams speaks about the issue of class sizes and how both the Union and the Department of Education have reacted to it. He moves on to discuss density of QTU membership.
John Battams discusses the change from the Borbidge to the Beattie governments and mending bridges between the Union and the Department of Education after the Leading Schools dispute.
John Battams speaks about the Presidents of the QTU that he has worked with. He also discusses the Directors General of the Department of Education with whom he worked.
John Battams speaks about his first years as a teacher at Sandgate District State High School, and how he came to first be involved in the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU).
Mary Kelly offers an opinion on the suggestion that unions exist to undermine the authority and agency of bureaucracy, particularly regarding the Queensland Teachers Union and the authority of the Education Department.
Mary Kelly reflects on 1989, the 100-year anniversary of the Queensland Teachers Union and dealing with the Goss Labor Government, and the changes they made to education.
Mary Kelly comments on the changes in the early 1990s that resulted in a greater push for women to take up more senior roles in the Department of Education. She discusses women's issues at that time.
