Privatisation fetish will ensure budget spending splurge fails
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May 12, 2021 12.05am
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I did not know whether to laugh or cry as I read your story (“Intensive support: Budget to offer to retrain Australians in new skills”, May 11). Haven’t we heard this before? How is this ‘you beaut’ training or retraining going to happen? More dodgy, rip-off private so-called training colleges that have a history of defrauding taxpayers of eye-watering amounts of money?
We did have a wonderfully comprehensive national TAFE system with specialised permanent teachers. Then the system was constantly restructured and dismantled until it became a shadow of its former self, depending on casual and part-time teachers who work in unpredictable, unreliable employment. All in the name of privatisation.
Gillard paved way for new wave in fight for womenâs rights
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April 12, 2021 â 12.05am
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Julia Gillardâs misogyny speech echoed around the world, striking a positive blow for womenâs long struggle against verbal and physical sexual predation, and for equality (âNot a plea, a demand: letâs make misogyny historyâ, April 10-11). Who can forget that appalling picture of Tony Abbott speaking outside federal parliament with Sophie Mirabella and Bronwyn Bishop close by, as âDitch the Witchâ and other crude signs were hoisted behind them? Who can forget her shocking treatment by the likes of Alan Jones? A measure of our former PMâs stature, determination to press for justice, and forgiveness for these depravities, is that there is no self-pitying about her own maltreatment. She has helped pave the way for Grace Tame, Brit
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Addled PM must bite the bullet on womenâs rights
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March 17, 2021 â 12.10am
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The Prime Minister has shown that he doesnât have any serious intentions of changing the culture of discrimination, sexual assault and harassment against women (âPMâs tin ear on display as crowd vents angerâ, March 16). If he did, he would have accepted the invitation to attend the March 4 Justice rally. He could have listened to the voices of the women and, having heard their stories, responded with an undertaking to bring forward reform, showing a determination to change the current toxic climate. Instead, he tells us how lucky we are to live in a country where you are not going to get shot for attending a protest. Really? Such a complete lack of understanding and empathy fills me with despair. We need to keep pressure on the governme
Imagine having daughters locked up on an island
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February 18, 2021 12.05am
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Now that Scott Morrison has put on his father cap, could he extend compassion to the Sri Lankan family incarcerated on Christmas Island (“Plea to free family stuck in visa limbo”, February 17) and allow them to return to their life in Biloela?
Rhonda Seymour, Castle Hill
Following the Federal Court’s positive ruling in favour of the Tamil family’s visa application, it was distressing to read that the government is still not legally obliged to release the family from detention on Christmas Island. Unsurprisingly, the Home Affairs Department trotted out the usual weasel words: “At no time has any member of the family been found to be owed protection.” Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. Spot the difference, Mr D