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• Choose unemployment?

  'A life of idleness' on work for the dole By Tim Grey-Smith The Coalition government's work for the dole scheme forces young people who have been unemployed for more than six months to do manual labour in order to receive their pittance of a dole
• Centrelink workers to continue strikes

  Centrelink workers to continue strikesOn December 3, Community and Public Sector Union members employed at Centrelink endorsed state-by-state rolling half-day stoppages from December 8 to 17. This is the next step in the CPSU
• Ramos Horta: 'A common struggle'

  Ramos Horta: 'A common struggle'SYDNEY — The links between the struggle for freedom in East Timor and democracy in Indonesia were the focus of public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on November 28 and December 3. Both
• Action updates

  ACT government workers to strike CANBERRA — ACT government workers will strike for 24 hours on December 17 if the ACT Liberal government fails to retract the threat of forced redundancies. Meanwhile, workers in the ACT Chief Minister's
• Resistance briefs

  PERTH — The Curtin University Academic Board has voted 26 to nine in favour of introducing full up-front fee-paying places in speech and hearing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy courses. If the University Council passes the proposal at its
• Choose a career?

  Howard attempts to entrench youth wagesThe Howard government has proposed legislation which would entrench junior wages and extend them to the 200,000 workers under 21 who currently receive adult wages. The vast majority of
• Choose an education?

  The graduate factory (pay at the door)University was supposed to be a sanctuary of ideas and debate, a "community of scholars" adding to the pool of society's knowledge and enlightenment. But today's universities are factories,
• Choose to fight back

  Choose to fight back A life which means somethingIf these were the extent of our choices — life on the dole, exploitation in the work force or an expensive (non)-education at a university — then life wouldn't look great.
• NUS: the bureaucracy strikes back

  From December 7 to 11, delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students will be gathering in Ballarat. It's a pivotal conference, one which finds Labor stronger and the left weaker than in many years. The time
• NTEU wins increase in permanent employment

  NTEU wins increase in permanent employmentSYDNEY — Hundreds of fixed-term contracts are to be converted to permanent following an agreement the National Tertiary Education Industry Union has negotiated with the University of
• What are they going to do with your life?

  What are they going to do with your life? It's the end of the year, a time when many of us are considering our "life options" — what the hell we're going to do next year. Despite all the hot air about Australia being "free" and everything being
• See you next year: GLW will be back on January 20, 1999

  See you next year This is last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly for this year. We will be back after a break, with the first issue for 1999 to be published on January 20. Don't miss it!
• Youth suicide and homophobia

  Many people were disgusted by last month's brutal murder of Matthew Shepherd, a young, gay US student. But there's also the story of Melbourne high school student James Anderson, who committed suicide after suffering continual
• Defamation ruling against 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ article

  Defamation ruling against 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ articleA ruling on November 26 by the District Court of South Australia awarded damages of $100,000 and costs of $11,000 to the former developers of the Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) bridge,
• Feminist to contest Wollongong seat

  Feminist to contest Wollongong seat WOLLONGONG — Angela Luvera will be standing in Wollongong for the Democratic Socialists in the March 27 state election. Luvera, a student member of Resistance, helped organise the high school walkouts against
• Billions for BHP

  Billions for BHP BHP's 1998 report to shareholders says that in the year to May 31, the company had operating revenue of $22.479 billion, against raw material and other external costs of $11.864 billion. The $10.615 billion difference or value
• Why we hate Christmas

  In late October, we came across an intimidating sight: a three-storey-high Santa Claus bearing down on the mall from the adjacent department store. Looking somewhat like a giant human Coke can, he brings a message
• More restrictions on youth sex

  SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government recently proposed amendments to legislation to require the mandatory reporting of consensual sex between young people under the legal age of consent. The change is part of the proposed Children
• Advertiser scapegoats Aboriginal youth

  ADELAIDE — On November 28, the Adelaide Advertiser printed an article about youth vandalism in Port Augusta. It was accompanied by a silhouetted picture of four teenage boys, looking dark and sinister. The article
• Save Tasmania's forests!

  Save Tasmania's forests! HUON VALLEY — About 250 people on November 29 attended a forest picnic in the Tahune Reserve, in Tasmania's south-western forest, organised by the Wilderness Society as part of the campaign to stop logging in old-growth
• Loose cannons

  Maths lesson "Twenty per cent loading for women means nothing when Labor thugs follow zero per cent of the rules." — Susie Carleton, defeated in a NSW ALP preselection ballot after the party's credentials committee excluded 36 votes from a branch