GLW issue 329, published 1998-08-19.

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GST: good for the rich, bad for us

By Sue Boland If you believed the hype, you would think that everyone — rich and poor — will be better off under the new Howard-Costello tax plan. But it's not possible for something to benefit both rich and poor, both bosses and workers. A

Looking out: Compassion

Compassion By Brandon Astor Jones "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is something that could better be changed in ourselves" — Carl Gustav Jung Chaquita Damon, age five,

Call centres: 'the new workhouses'

By Nick Everett "I have been threatened with being bashed, with being shot, and I have had customers scream so loud that it hurt my ear. I have had a customer in a public phone box smash the hand set into the payphone, causing my ear to ring."

... and ain't i a woman?: Blue stockings

Blue stockings From August 17 to 21, Blue Stocking Week, events will be held on campuses across Australia to focus attention on women's participation in higher education. A century ago, women who wanted a formal education were referred to by
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