The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) is the federally registered union representing over 65,000 education professionals (teachers and other education staff) in the non-government education sector, many of whom work in community kindergartens, early childhood education centres and community preschools.
Currently there are 2728 non government schools in which 83 567 teaching staff are employed. 66.16% of total staff in non-government schools are female.