When I renewed my registration last year, it was a really hot topic at the time and at the time I and my teaching colleagues couldn't believe that the Teaching Council believed it was quite justified in raising their fee from $220 every three years to $157 every year. Even those teachers who didn't teach maths could work out that it was a pretty big increase from $220 to $471 every three years, and now they're up with a wage freeze. I was in the Education and Workforce Committee and heard many of the submitters, and lots of issues were brought up, like the extra powers, the rushed process—was questions being mentioned a few times tonight—the concern that the Teaching Council weren't the right people to provide the professional development, that the requirements keep changing and requiring teachers to receive professional development for these changes, and whether the Teaching Council, the body for discipline of the teachers, was the appropriate body to provide the professional development and leadership. Many mentioned the salaries of the Teaching Council staff—they weren't happy with that. There's a certain amount of annoyance that the Teaching Council had a budget, so they should work within it, like everyone else, and almost every submitter was concerned about the lack of consultation.