Keywords: Welfare-To-Work
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jack Waterford
- 23 December 2006
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are enjoying their bounce, and their honeymoon, as John Howard predicted they would. Early polls suggest a marked upsurge in the Labor vote, in approval for the Labor leadership change, and in comparisons between the performance of Rudd and the Prime Minister. Were an election to be held now, one might think Labor would romp it in.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 24 July 2006
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The idea that neither Peter Costello nor Kim Beazley will ever be Prime Minister of Australia has been reinforced in recent months
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MEDIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 10 July 2006
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Online publishing puts us in touch with many conversations. But there is a danger that it will sever the necessary link between our awareness of the cultures and debates in the world, and the humanity at the core of our being.
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AUSTRALIA
The new Welfare to Work legislation was implemented on 1 July. The St Vincent de Paul Society marked the day with a sad heart. National Council CEO Dr John Falzon says the new laws will see many people with disabilities and single mothers and their children pushed into greater poverty and indignity.
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EDUCATION
The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 23 April 2006
The interesting, and probably enduring, thing about The Latham Diaries is not Mark Latham’s critique of the Labor Party, or even what the book tells about his own self-centredness and self-destructiveness.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 21 April 2006
John Howard has a new pitch to the public on nearly everything, but particularly on national security and industrial relations: Trust me.
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