This is a transcript of PM broadcast at 1800 AEST on local radio. In New South Wales, the Government has launched an inquiry that it hopes will reverse what's become a nation-wide trend of young men deserting primary school teaching as a profession.
Figures reveal that less than one in four primary school teachers is male.
A decade ago it was close to one in every three. One reason being put forward is the growing fear that men have of being wrongfully caught up in child sex scandals. Rebecca Carmody reports. Brenton Myatt is a rare breed these days. At the primary school where he teaches in Sydney's inner-west there is only one other man on staff.