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The tumultuous years of Terry Metherell's control of the Education Ministry sowed the seeds of activism in a young Luke Di Salvia.
As the son of two teachers, "from a young age, my folks instilled in me a love of learning, a curiosity for science and an enduring sense of right and wrong, they also gave me my first real memory of unionism during the tumultuous Greiner/Metherell years of the late '80s," Mr Di Salvia said.
A Science/Physics teacher at Leeton High School for almost 20 years, he is the Federation Representative there and "it's fair to say the seeds of activism that were indirectly planted by my folks during the Metherell years" didn't take long to sprout and grow.
"As a 23 year old 'fresher', I understood the need for action and resistance and was even then piecing together the link between teacher conditions, morale, wellbeing, collective goodwill and the direct link to, and profound impact on, teaching and student learning," he said.
In late 2005, he relieved the thenFed Rep while he was on leave and...