Abbott: Go West!
Tony Abbott has a plan which would end skills shortages in the resources sector: TONY Abbott has proposed banning the dole for people under 30 in a bid to entice the unemployed to head west and fill massive skill shortages [...]
Fair go?
From The Australia Institute’s ‘Between the Lines’: The Australia Institute has recommended that the unemployment benefit be increased in line with community standards, which basically means providing for the unemployed as we do our pensioners and disabled. Another way of [...]
Unemployed miss out…again
Josh Gordon in The Age on Wayne Swan’s budget: In 2005, the former academic and social justice campaigner published Postcode, a book that said Australia had become a “frayed patchwork of winners and losers from economic change”, and that there [...]
Unemployment – no longer just for "dole bludgers"?
On the same day the Reserve Bank Board meets after its summer break, Federal Parliament resumes tomorrow. Among the bills which will be considered is one embodying the loosening of penalties on jobseekers who “breach” agreements with employment services providers. [...]
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