Examinator,

No objective fact. I didn't realise I required a high burden of proof to post here, but since you asked:

The core of my post was - I believe it is the wrong time for teachers to be furious about a pay rise:

Please see - the last 12 months increase in unemployment and increase in underutilisation of labour force.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/6202.0Main%20Features1Aug%202009?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=6202.0&issue=Aug%202009&num=&view=

This survey shows that a majority of companies have frozen wages and are skipping or reducing bonuses:

http://www.mercer.com.au/summary.htm;jsessionid=@EgrTIjXAJ@uiej2fiUX3Q**.mercer02?siteLanguage=1012&idContent=1351085

And here showing that only 1.5m of 7.5m workers was entitled to RDO's. Sorry the data is a bit old.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ProductsbyReleaseDate/E391985F180195AECA256EAD0078925E?OpenDocument202006&num=&view=

When you think that a teacher has a very responsible job and has to study for the registration as a teacher and is on about $62k p.a and a member of parliament gets about twice that....unqualified ...I ask you?