I teach in Brisbane.  I would have loved to come to the meeting but I am caught up in the very thing that the meeting is about, that is the massive workload that the system has imposed on us. Reports are due on Monday and I still have EEIs and ERTs to mark. This is going to take all of my time this weekend, as it has on the previous two weekends. Assessment setting and marking now take a massive amount of time.  For example it takes approximately 45 to 60 minutes to mark an EEI.  Multiply that by 25 and you can see that this is an unacceptable workload, especially for the teachers who have 3 or 4 senior classes. Setting assessment has also become unbelievably time consuming. Previously I could write an exam in about four hours.  I have had to write two this term and each has taken about 16 hours to write. One of these exams was a year 9 exam which should have been very easy to do. Marking has also become time consuming.  Six hours to mark and record a sixty minute year 10 exam. I see a lot of science teachers who are near breaking point.  I am yet to meet one who likes the system.