Motions for the Conference
A01Walgett Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the relevant federal government departments to continue and expand the Commonwealth Regional Scholarship Program pilot.
A02South Australia State Council
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the relevant government departments to reestablish the Commonwealth Regional Scholarship Program (CRSP).
A03Queensland State Council
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Federal Government and all relevant departments for the permanent establishment of a Rural Hardship Education Fund (RHEF), to support rural and remote families eligible for the Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) allowance to meet educational costs during times of unforeseen and unprecedented natural disasters.
A04Tambo Branch (QLD)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and relevant ministers to ensure that the Commonwealth’s recurrent school funding model includes provisions for boarding schools to receive a Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption on accommodation provided to essential boarding staff, where the school accommodates students from remote and very remote areas as defined by the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) score.
A05ICPA Federal Council
That ICPA(Aust) advocate that the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA) continue discussions with the Federal Government to lobby for a Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for schools/boarding facilities providing on site living facilities for essential supervising staff who must live on site.
A06Louth Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the relevant ministers to support the removal of the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) for businesses who would like to provide financial assistance to employees residing in geographically isolated areas, to enable their children to attend boarding school.
A07South Australia State Council
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Federal Government to significantly increase the Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) Basic Boarding Allowance so that it more accurately reflects the real and rising cost of boarding school education for geographically isolated students.
A08South Australia State Council
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to Services Australia and the Federal Government for a review of the eligibility criteria for the Additional Boarding Allowance under the Geographically Isolated (GI) category of the Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) scheme, so that entitlement is determined solely on the basis of actual boarding costs incurred as a family, without being subject to parental income testing.
A09Broken Hill Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate for changes within the Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) criteria to address the inequity of assistance provided to Geographically Isolated students.
A10Kindon Branch (QLD)
That ICPA Australia advocate to the Federal government and all stakeholders to address the continuing decline of mobile coverage in rural areas which affects small rural schools and rural school bus services.
A11Katherine Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) continues to advocate to the Minister for Communications to ensure all rural and remote students have adequate internet access regarding reliability, speed, quality, and cost of the service.
A12Katherine Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) continues to advocate to the Minister of Communication to ensure Telstra meets their Universal Service Guarantee of providing quality, efficient, and reliable voice services to rural and remote premises to access education including fixed address pastoral leases, remote communities, and remote roadhouses.
A13Balranald Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Minister for Education to ensure that all State and Territories have
equitable dates for when National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing is
conducted throughout Australia.
A14Northern Territory State Council
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Federal Government to add an additional loading category to the School Resourcing Standard for Geographic Isolated students.
A15South Australia State Council
That ICPA (AUST) advocate to the Commonwealth Government to formally recognise geographically isolated students as a priority equity cohort by introducing a fifth student-based loading, a Geographically Isolated Student Loading, within the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS).
A16Northern Territory State Council
That ICPA (Aust) support the formation of a Distance Education Supervision subsidy (name is not important) to assist geographically isolated families whose only choice for their children is Distance Education.
A17Alice Springs Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) continue to advocate to the Minister for Social Services and the Minister for Education to establish a Distance Education Teaching Allowance, in recognition of the essential role that the home tutor plays in educating rural and remote students via distance education.
A18Katherine Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) continue to advocate to the Federal Government to establish an allowance / subsidy for families in recognition of the cost families bear in providing the compulsory home tutor when educating rural and remote students via distance education.
A19New South Wales State Council
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Minister for Social Services to provide funding for a Distance Education Supervisors Subsidy (DESS) to be paid per term to eligible geographically isolated families for safely and actively supervising students in a home classroom.
A20Katherine Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and all other relevant government agencies to recognise and implement a wage system for Home Tutors under the Pastoral Award.
A21Meekatharra Air Branch
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Federal Government to introduce immediately per child, a minimum home tutor allowance equivalent to the cost for the State Departments of Education to educate a child in the state systems, or preferably a full wage equivalent to the average teacher's remuneration per annum.
A22Katherine Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Minister for Social Services for an increase to the Assistance for Isolated Children Distance Education Allowance to reflect and assist with the true cost of educating geographically isolated children where distance education is the only choice.
A23Monaro Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Minister for Education and the Department of Education to further enable Regional University Study Hubs (RUSH’s) to provide support services with appropriate safeguards to local secondary students who are learning by distance.
A24Alice Springs Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) expand the publicity campaign for RREd Day to include key messaging, increase awareness, and reach a wider audience whilst boosting the visibility of being a home tutor in rural and remote areas.
A25Bourke Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the relevant Federal Ministers for funding to be sought to address Early Childhood Teacher pay parity to assist with access to early childhood education in rural and remote communities.
A26Louth Branch (NSW)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the relevant Federal Ministers to amend the lack of salary parity between four year trained early childhood teachers and four year trained primary and high school teachers in rural and remote areas.
A27Tambo Branch (QLD)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Federal Government to develop and implement targeted incentives to attract and retain early childhood educators in rural and remote areas, to ensure the sustainability and reliability of early childhood and care services in these regions.
A28Katherine Branch (NT)
That ICPA (Aust) advocate to the Federal Minister for Social Services to urgently commit to increasing the In-Home Care (IHC) Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Hourly Rate Cap, to ensure that families with no alternative child care options are not forced to shoulder inequitable financial burdens.
