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.
On 9 May 2021, Old Parliament House celebrated it’s 94th birthday and I have been pondering it’s history in connection with women and Parliament. I have been slowly reading Professor Clare Wright’s
You Daughters of Freedom, which is about the women, ‘who won the vote and inspired the world’. I say slowly reading, because I have been pausing after the introduction of each new player to investigate the primary sources for myself. I recommend reading or listening to Professor Clare Wright’s author talk on her book here.
With these procrastinations away from the book into the National Library’s collections, and with recent events in Australia’s political and cultural life, I have been turning to our history for inspiration and consolation, and for reading about Australian woman who were ‘first’. So, as I move from my introduction to one of my favourite ‘first women’, here is my second favourite photograph of the birthday building, Old Parliament House, surround
Migration dependence exposes flaws in growth myths
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May 11, 2021 12.10am
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Politicians and business leaders may want migration to resume as early as next year (“Treasurer banks on reopened borders”, May 10). But I doubt the average Joe, who has faced rising prices on stagnating wages for years in an insecure job market agrees with them. The fact that the federal government fears growth cannot be sustained without migrants to swell our numbers serves as a reminder that the growth model is unsustainable in the long term anyway. COVID-19 has given us an opportunity to rethink the way we do things. Simply returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is definitely not the way forward. -
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Sydneyâs new Anglican Archbishop faces an enormous task
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Last week, Sydneyâs Anglicans elected Kanishka Raffel to serve as Archbishop of Sydney.
Kanishka is currently serving as dean in Sydneyâs St Andrewâs Cathedral. At a service there on May 28, he will be officially installed in the role, making him the spiritual leader of some half a million people who identify as Anglicans in Greater Sydney and Wollongong.
Born in England to Sri Lankan parents, Kanishka is the first person of non-European