Keywords: Youth Allowance
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ENVIRONMENT
- Lin Hatfield Dodds
- 11 July 2011
22 Comments
The Government has crafted a historic package of reforms: driving long-run reductions in carbon pollution, simplifying personal tax and making it fairer, and reducing poverty traps and barriers to work. It's exactly the kind of smart and gutsy approach we want to see from this Government.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul O'Callaghan
- 11 May 2011
7 Comments
The Budget contains a number of positive measures to promote mental health, employment and training. But without greater investment in individualised support for job seekers and those on disability support pensions to assist their transition to work, we are not likely to see major change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Vinson
- 25 October 2010
4 Comments
My mother never really coped while I was growing up. My dad died when I was seven and she had a nervous breakdown. My sister got murdered when I was about 15. She had just turned 18. That's when my life rolled out of control.
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INTERNATIONAL
- John Falzon
- 18 October 2010
5 Comments
There's something disquieting about quietness imposed from above in the heart of a democracy. Anti-Poverty Week is a good time to reflect on how, as a nation, can hear the revolutionary stories of the oppressed and abandoned in our midst.
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 13 January 2010
1 Comment
It's fashionable to make all sorts of claims about Generation
Y. Among other things, we are spoilt, attention-deficient, highly educated and unemployable. If you stop prophesising our doom for a moment, you might see we're not as hopeless as we seem. August 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 10 August 2009
7 Comments
It's fashionable to make all sorts of claims about Generation
Y. Among other things, we are spoilt, attention-deficient, highly educated and unemployable. If you stop prophesising our doom for a moment, you might see we're not as hopeless as we seem.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 29 May 2006
1 Comment
Almost exactly 60 years ago George Orwell published a wonderful essay called, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad... The point of the essay was to insist ‘that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing’.
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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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