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Training System Needs Reform
In his reply to the 2004 Federal Budget, Opposition Leader Mark Latham committed a future Labor government to a 'train or work' policy. Under this...
Aged Care
Few issues occupy the minds of baby boomers more than ageing. The concern is not just with our own mortality and retirement, but also about what to...
Club Virtue: The Intelligentsia We Deserve?
Of all the shameless untruths which disfigure Australian public debate, none is greater than the claim or implication that the welfare state is...
Social justice's endless maw
It is amazing how many commentators seem to think they have said something morally uplifting---indeed the final word---when they grandly declare...
Welfare reform
The Howard Government is about to embark on one of the most important and controversial of reforms---reform of the welfare state. Of course,...
Welfare Lobby Harming Their Own
Oh for God's sake this is pathetic! On the tax package the welfare lobby can't see past their bibs. The Catholics are outraged that their nursing...
Am I my brother's keeper?
A Politician's Dilemma: an incident at Redcliffe 1994. On a bright and sunny day, at a time when I was a Minister in the Labor government of Prime...