The Coalition government's announcement last month that young people's unemployment payments will be decreased if they "continue to remain illiterate and innumerate" leaves many wondering if Howard's concept of "mutual obligation"
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NFF to reform higher educationToday, Ms Ima Mug, spokesperson for the Anti-vice Chancellors' Committee for Furthering Managerialism and Economic Bloody Mindedness, welcomed what she called the "magnificent offer by Mr Dullard
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Poem: The ten point scam
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Reith is rightPeter Reith, the leader of government business in the House of Representatives, is correct when he says there is an alternative to a unionised work force in Australia. He is on more dangerous ground with
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Sectional interests can gain interim advantage over other less powerful sectional interests. Disability lobby groups can succeed in getting government to advance the interests of those with a disability over the unemployed and
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Work for the dole kills jobsPrime ministers John Howard in Australia, Jenny Shipley in New Zealand and Tony Blair in Britain all use the same rhetoric to describe the behaviour of lone parents and the unemployed. They claim
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Where have all the taxes gone?The controversy about the federal government's last budget and the current political shenanigans over introducing a consumption tax demonstrate the unrest changes to the tax system evoke. As the
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From 1788 until today, race relations in this nation have been marred by misunderstanding, fear, inordinate violence and dishonesty. The current hysteria surrounding the High Court's Wik judgment is based on false
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Australia 1995As we woodchip our way towards a forest policy, setting up bilby abattoirs in Pitjantjatjara country, our journalists inquire of highly paid bankers whether we should put up interest rates in order to
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By John Tomlinson and Rob Wesley-Smith There are significant economic and political reasons why the federal Labor cabinet should reassess its position on East Timor. These reasons need to be placed within a historical context. If the
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[A response to the Committee on Employment Opportunities report, Restoring Full Employment, released in December.] The Committee on Employment Opportunities is made up of four senior Commonwealth bureaucrats, two
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From Pig Iron Bob to Yellow Cake Johnthe story's been the sameit's the rich who take the profitsand the poor who end up lame.Tycoons own the mining sharesthey own the rich ore lodethe poor just labour in the minesand tramp the