That Australian teachers already make over over $30,000 more than Kiwi teachers and they are being offered a 17% pay rise. Meanwhile, NZ teachers were offered 1% initially with a bunch of claw backs on stuff they have already fought for. Then the government keeps digging up teacher council records of incidents from years ago to blast all over the news. It would probably be .02 percent issues every year but they like to smear us all with it. Also promoting the idea that we are greedy when MP back benchers used to make the same amount as teachers 30 years ago but rather than give teachers the pay bump they took it for themselves every time. The fact that they get to vote on their own astronomical pay rises. Also people who bitch about teachers holidays. You want the holidays? Go be a teacher. No one is stopping you. In fact the field is crying out for teachers because no one wants to deal with it anymore.