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Hummer.
Cover title. Description based on: No. 8 (Feb./Mar. 1985). Numbering note: From verso: The Hummer has been published since 1983: the frequency and numbering of the issues has varied over the years, and there was a gap in publication between late 2006 and 2008. Advice from the Sydney Branch: there is a delay of about a year before issues are put up online. Issue Vol 13 no 1 2019 features NSWTF centenary banner on cover, and article by Max Taylor, 'Youth and militancy: the NSW Teachers Federation 1970-83', pages 10-32. Issues covered by the article: Deregistration 1973; 1973 TAFE teachers salary case; 1974 teachers salary case; the Federal Labor Government 1972-75; TAFE and the Kangan Report 1974; Education Commission; Superannuation; Warilla High School dispute; 18 : 12 campaign in TAFE; Salaries campaign of 1980-81; The struggle to defend public education in 1982-83 (staffing, class sizes, maintenance, Fight the Cuts); Relief from face-to-face teaching for infant and primary teachers; Accelerated promotion for country service; Dover Heights Campaign. Includes article: 'A movement that sings (will never die) by Danny Blackman. Discusses two songs about teachers: 'Twenty-nine kids'; 'I'm changing our name to Grammar', written by Maurie Mulheron, NSWTF President.