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Pasi Sahlberg, Professor of Education, Southern Cross University

It's great education ministers agree the teacher shortage is a problem, but their new plan ignores the root causes

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare and his state colleagues met in Canberra on Friday. Lukas Coch/AAP

Last Friday, Australia’s state and federal education ministers met with emotional teachers, who spoke of working on weekends and Mothers’ Day to cope with unsustainable workloads – and how they were thinking about leaving the profession.

This was part of their first meeting hosted by the federal minister Jason Clare. The top agenda item was the teacher shortage.

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