National Policies
- The Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century: Preamble and Goals
- Still current today – although established in 1999 – these national goals underpin education in all states and territories in Australia.
- Australian Policy Online (APO)
- A handy portal to Australian policies. Easily searchable index by categories such as Disability, Gender and sexuality and Youth.
- Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA)
- This council is made up of state and territory and national ministers for education – and others – and is responsible for developing national policies. Has a great index to reports such as those relating to teachers and teaching, ICT, and the National Assessment Program (NAP)
- National Report on Schooling in Australia
- From this MCEETYA site you can access all national reports on schooling from 2000.
- School Education (Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations)
- From here you can access national policies relating to Early Childhood Education, School Education and Indigenous Education among others.