Category Archives: Government

Petition aims to stop Canberra’s Welfare Reform Bill

From the Australian Unemployed Workers Union

The Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) is launching a campaign, to convince the cross bench Senators that they should reject the government’s Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill, which is due to go before them again next month. Continue reading Petition aims to stop Canberra’s Welfare Reform Bill

We’ve turned our unis into aimless money-grubbing exploiters of students

Perhaps not everyone will agree with everything Ross Gittins (Economics Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald 17 September 2017) has to say in this article about cuts to university funding in Australia. Nevertheless, he raises some very important points that should be noted by all of us.

Continue reading We’ve turned our unis into aimless money-grubbing exploiters of students