Peter Boyle

  • Plans to implement Carmichael Report

    Plans to implement Carmichael ReportIn the lead-up to the youth jobs summit, senior ACTU officials have been working out implementation of the Carmichael Report's youth training wage proposal. While the ACTU's official

  • Young people reject 'youth slavery' plans

    Official unemployment for June reached a postwar record high of 11.1% nationally, up from 10.6% the previous month. In South Australia the jobless rate was 12.5%, in Victoria 11.9% and in Tasmania 11.8%. Unemployment among

  • 10,000 march against privatisation

    10,000 march against privatisationMELBOURNE — The Kirner Labor government's program of public asset sales and corporatisation and commercialisation of the public sector was "paving the way" for the next Liberal government's

  • High Court challenge to Cleary

    High Court challenge to ClearyMELBOURNE — The High Court will hear a challenge to left independent Phil Cleary's victory in the April by-election for former prime minister Bob Hawke's Victorian seat of Wills. The

  • 'No to youth slavery!'

    MELBOURNE — About 140 representatives of government, Industry, the ACTU and Community organisations were invited to a forum titled "Youth Employment and Training — A Bridge to the Future" at Victoria's Parliament House on

  • Carmichael's 'final solution' for youth unemployment

    Both the federal and Victorian governments have suggested that the solution to youth unemployment is contained in the Carmichael Report, a document from the Employment and Skills Formation Council named after it author, former

  • A 'recovery' without jobs?

    According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, unemployment in May reached a postwar record of 10.6%. Yet Australia is "technically" well out of recession because, by the end of March, the economy had grown for three quarters

  • Plan to break Bougainville blockade

    Plan to break Bougainville blockadeMELBOURNE — A group of solidarity activists plan to try to run the Papua New Guinea military's blockade of Bougainville later this year in a refurbished 90-year-old ketch called Flinders.

  • Desperate Kirner boycotts ALP

    Desperate Kirner boycotts ALPMELBOURNE — Premier Joan Kirner's government is looking desperate. On June 12, her sub-faction in the Victorian ALP, had to organise a boycott of a meeting of the party's state administrative

  • Causes of the urban crisis

    Rising smog levels, deteriorating water quality and predictions of future water shortages for most major cities in Australia add to a widespread sense of urban crisis. It seems as if our cities are set to continue expanding

  • Consumers revolt against bank robbery

    The banks' latest attempts to hit credit card holders with more charges has driven the Australian Consumers Association to call a national day of protest against the banks for June 2. Whether you are struggling with a home

  • The 'doughnut effect'

    Like many cities in the United States, Australian cities have been subjected to the "doughnut effect": the city centre becomes "hollow" as population moves from inner suburbs to the outer suburbs in search of newer, larger or