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De facto detention won't help youth

17 August 2009

WHATEVER happened to the rights of young people? The "learn-or-earn" policies the Federal Government announced last week amount to an undue restriction on young school-leavers, and a one-size-fits-all approach that is going to force some teenagers into undertaking meaningless courses for which they are ill-suited and unmotivated. Let them look for work instead... read full story

The politics we know, so show us the vision

1 August 2009

IT IS often the curse of parliamentary oppositions to be seen as carping naysayers, taking contrary positions to the government of the day merely for the sake of seeking points of difference... read full story

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