Class sizes, together with the added weight of administrative duties that have come with incessant curriculum reforms, are the most vehement complaints heard from teachers.

ECONOMIST: Education

She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.

ECONOMIST: Labor is humbled in its heartland

The government said parents back its curriculum and pay reforms.

BBC: Rally for Education