I'm in Secondary... Primary and secondary jobs are always safe cause there will always be kids to teach... University cutbacks are occurring as the government has stopped subsidizing courses... And people don't want to come out with massive debts... Do they just go into work... TAFE funding has been cut to the sh*thouse too... We have had the same happen with VCAL. Ted B. is a cockhead. He went on record saying that of voted in, teachers would be the highest paid in the nation. I wish he had have said schools would receive the highest funding in the nation. People don't understand that our wages come from a school budget based on student funding... He may give us a "pay rise" without actually giving the school any extra money... It will just be taken from money that would otherwise go to funding students... He says that the economy doesn't allow for increases... Have people stopped speeding? I'm sure he's still receiving a sh*tload from fines. Have people stopped paying tax (I know I haven't?), have people stopped blowing money on the pokies? (not from what I see?) where are the government falling short in the revenue raising process?