‘Fed up’ public school teachers take to the streets as threat of Term 4 full-day strike looms

Key points

• ACT public school teachers rallied in the streets as part of a week of rolling stop-work action. The Australian Education Union ACT says a new pay and conditions offer must be better, or a full-day strike will go ahead in Term 4.
• Teachers say heavy workloads, classes being combined and a lack of resources are wearing them down.
• The Education Minister, Rachel Stephen-Smith, said bargaining is progressing well and she hopes to send a further offer to the union within a couple of weeks, so an agreement can go to ballot.