From: brad@winnie.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Brad Alexander )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: oznews, 25th of July, 1992.
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:22:47 GMT

Not much news this week. The Prime Minister has detailed his own youth
employment scheme yesterday. It spends $750 million and aims for 96,000
jobs, mostly through government subsidised, private industry based
training. I may be able to get around to posting details tommorow.            
 
                News from "The Weekend Australian" 25-7-92
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"Libs top up youth pay with welfare"-Youth wages would be topped up with
welfare payments under the Coalition's employment policy announced
yesterday. 
  The leader of the federal Opposition, Dr Hewson, revealed the Coalition
plan in Perth as the Prime Minister, Mr Keating, won crucial endorsment for
new job creation schemes from ALP factional leaders and the ACTU in
Canberra.
  Both leaders are desperate to differentiate their jobs policies, amid a
public outcry that 11.1 per cent unemployment is intolerable.
  In a reversal of a hardline stance against subsidising employment, Dr
Hewson has recognised the political damage caused by his tough job policies
and extended the welfare net to workers who would be disadvantaged...
  On Monday, Mr Keating is expected to announce his scheme to "buy"
thousands of jobs on environmental and council projects.
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"The old school tie still rules Australia"- Australia's business and
academic elite come from an "alarmingly narrow" social background,
according to a new study which shows a chasm between publicly and privately
educated.
  Those who control the purse strings and minds of Australians are
disproportionately Protestant and middle class.
  Our leading academics, doctors, lawyers, polititions, clergy, and
bussinessmen are largely the products of non-Catholic private school
educations, according to a new book, Who Went Where In Who's Who 1988.
  The study by former Melbourne university academics, Mr Mark Peel and Ms
Janet McCalman, is based on an analysis of the education of the Australians
who rated a mention in Who's Who in Australia.
  Of the 8,234 men listing educational details, nearly 40 per cent attended
private Protestant schools, far in excess of their proportional
representation in the total school population...
  Only 652 women were listed but the trend continued..
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"Australia Post fights PSA over price-caps"- The Price Surveillance
Authority is meeting stiff resistance from big companies, including
Australia Post, over its plan to introduce a price-capping formula based on
the consumer price index. 
  The PSA has focused on Australia Post and large companies providing basic
consumer goods such as beer and biscuts in its push to replace the existing
system of price notifications with a price capping formula similar to that
used by Telecom.
  But the PSA has encountered stronger resistance than expected when it
first signalled its preference for price-capping three years ago. 
  The price-capping approach limits movements in prices to the CPI minus a
set percentage. In the case of Telecom it is CPI minus 5.5 per cent and
will mean nominal price falls now inflation has fallen below 2 per cent.
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"Bosses fear melenoma claims"- Employers could face a deluge of claims
following this week's compensation case that awarded a widow and her three
children $100,000 after her husband died of working related cancer, the
Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said yesterday. 
  The chamber's chief executive officer, Mr David Edwards, said the
definition of compensatable injury was too broad and cause an avalanche of
claims.
  He asked the Victorian Trades Hall Council and Industrial Relations
Commission to support employers who took disiplinary action against workers
who refused to wear protective clothing, hats and sun screen...
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Brad Alexander.
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