The Government has announced a major reform to the AMEP.

Details can be found on the Department of Home Affairs website. 

ATESOL ACT particularly commends the new AMEP Academy and AMEP Online.

However, the reform entails significant cost cutting, which the Government seeks to achieve through changes to eligibility and childcare.

ATESOL ACT is deeply concerned at the refusal to consult with stakeholders, including our peak Council ACTA, and the likelihood of undesirable consequences.

• Click here for a letter from ACTA to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, the Hon. Anne Aly, MP and here for a similar letter to the Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration in the Australian Parliament, the Hon. Steve Georganas, MP.
• Click here for ACTA’s media release that is widely circulating. We encourage you to download and send it to your local federal member in the House of Representatives and the Senate with a polite covering note expressing your concern. Click here for details re these parliamentarians.

ATESOL ACT President Helen Moore has written to local federal politicians: Alicia Payne, Katy Gallagher, Andrew Leigh and David Smith. Please consider following up this advocacy with your own letter.