Marina Cameron

  • Moves to extend work for the dole

    Moves to extend work for the doleLegislation to establish new work for the dole schemes was introduced into federal parliament on March 19, amidst news that unemployment figures for February had jumped to 8.8%, while

  • Project highlights violence against gays and lesbians

    Project highlights violence against gays and lesbiansSYDNEY — The South Sydney Council and the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP) have announced the establishment of the Mary's Place Project in February to

  • Ireland peace talks: Include Sinn Féin!

    Talks on Northern Ireland resumed in Belfast on January 13. The major Irish republican party, Sinn Féin, is still being excluded by the British government despite the fact that it receives 43% of nationalist

  • Young people's rights: this system can't deliver

    Young people's rights: this system can't deliverRecent media coverage of the plight of today's youth has been so inadequate in identifying solutions that one is left feeling that they were unable to do anything but

  • Challenge to Tasmania's gay laws

    Challenge to Tasmania's gay lawsOn February 26, the High Court announced a unanimous decision to allow a legal challenge to the Tasmanian government's anti-gay laws to be heard. Gay activists Rodney Croome and Nick Toonen

  • Health gap grows

    Health gap growsRecent medical studies have confirmed that the single most important health issue worldwide is the growing gap between rich and poor. Health inequalities are widening alongside income inequalities, both

  • Vanstone under pressure over Austudy

    Vanstone under pressure over AustudyEducation minister Amanda Vanstone was forced into another embarrassing situation on February 20, when pressure from the Senate and Liberal backbenchers forced a partial back-down on

  • Time to defend public education

    The Liberal federal government has launched a vicious attack on public education, building on the groundwork laid by previous state and federal Labor governments. The government plans to accelerate the privatisation of higher

  • No to Howard's work-for-the-dole plan!

    Feigning concern that unemployed young people risked becoming demoralised, or losing a "work ethic", Prime Minister John Howard announced a new work-for-the-dole scheme on February 9. Funds will be set aside in the budget for

  • Government bungles Austudy means test

    Government bungles Austudy means testChanges to Austudy passed through the Senate last December have been estimated to have lowered or cancelled the payments of 60,000 students (a third of those who received the allowance last

  • GST: the New Zealand example

    Despite appeals from big business for Australian government to look across the Tasman at the New Zealand example, the reality is that tax "reform" there has led to an increase in social inequality and yielded no significant

  • The future of school privatisation

    Since taking office, the federal Liberal government has implemented a number of measures to further deregulate the school system and shift funding away from public schools. New legislation has removed restrictions on the number of