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Two Million Solutions To Our Skills Shortage

17 March 2005

Training our army of underemployed, unemployed and discouraged workers will help meet employer needs... read full story

Business Without Staff, People Without Jobs: Cut Taxes

14 March 2005

Let's get this straight: business can't find enough workers in Australia, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who would start work next month if the system supported it ("Keen to work, a million lost in the system", Herald, March 12-13). Australia has the highest minimum wage in the OECD, but is pretty much the highest taxer of low-income earners in the OECD. Business claims it is the cost of hiring that holds back employment. The Prime Minister thinks the wage issue is about what ..... read full story

Much More Than A Matter Of Free Will In The Fields Of Broken Dreams

5 March 2005

Oh joy, to see how much expertise in front-line policing is contained among Sydney's politicians, columnists and radio announcers. It must be a great comfort to the police at Macquarie Fields to know that they have this enormous body of knowledge on which to draw. How reassuring, when one is being pelted with Molotov cocktails, to know that this army of experts will be available, the very next morning, to tell you where you went wrong... read full story

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