Vanstone blames the victimsEducation minister Amanda Vanstone recently launched a campaign to blame the universities and schools under pressure from funding cuts for the adverse effects of privatisation begun under Labor
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Blair attempts to end free educationFollowing the release of the Dearing review report on higher education, on July 24 the Blair Labour government announced a new policy for higher education in Britain. The policy
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Four states intend to trial changes to the young homeless allowance which require 15 year olds to have regular meetings with a family go-between before they can receive their allowance. According to the Australian, WA family
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Since the common youth allowance was announced by the federal government in June, groups campaigning for the rights of students and young unemployed have been scrambling to find out exactly how the proposal will affect young
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In the work of privatising education, the seemingly neutral government proposal that teaching and student results be tested is dangerous cover for gathering evidence to argue that private education "works better", that public
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In early July, the federal government announced that it will not support moves to equalise age of consent laws for heterosexual and homosexual young people. Laws differ widely across the states at present. The age of consent
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Immigration minister Philip Ruddock cancelled the visa of US Black Panther activist Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin on July 25. Ervin was arrested in Brisbane and held in solitary confinement earlier this month after
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Private schools given a boostFederal legislation passed in December abolished the new schools policy, which restricted the number of new federally funded non-government schools and the size of their federal grants, and
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Abstudy cuts decimate Batchelor CollegeA report from Batchelor College, a university in the Northern Territory, to education minister Amanda Vanstone predicts that budget cuts to Abstudy will lead the institution to
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Academic tenure under attackIn a bid to drive down university operating costs — the result of government funding cuts — jobs are being cut and remaining staff are being forced to take on greater workloads and give up
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Lesbians and gay men: still fighting discriminationSYDNEY — On June 19, NSW independent MP Clover Moore released details of a bill aimed at extending rights to gay, lesbian and unmarried couples which she intends
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After the federal government cut $2.3 billion from university operating grants last year, university administrations have been scrabbling to make up costs by cutting staff, courses, libraries and services and charging more