"Diana" <newlifespromise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Randy" <pulpitfire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
....
>> I read an article, which I believe was written by Mark, in which he
>> complained and whined to his government about the fact that he was
>> unable to get a job as a teacher. I think he's just ticked off that
>> people are home schooling, and that this is putting him out of
>> business. But then again, with the way he's behaved towards home
>> schoolers, he is probably the best advocate for home schooling.
>>
>
> You don't know Mark and have no right to judge him this way. When did
God
> die and leave you the world to judge?
He's also wrong about what he writes. I wrote a submission to a
government
inquiry on mature age workers ... many years ago.
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" Inquiry Into Older Workers: VIEW FROM AN UNPERSON- A FACE IN THE STREET"
.......
Summary of main points:
I tell of my personal experiences as a mature aged unemployed unperson and
my views on unemployment including:
.. depersonalisation
.. social isolation and disruption
.. suicide and divorce amongst mature aged unemployed
.. lack of resources
.. lack of real jobs available
.. discrimination of various kinds
.. the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
.. government prolefeed
.. Bosses from Hell
.. Mutual Obligation for the Australian Federal Government as described in
Article 23 of The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
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I also included the following poem segment by a famous Aussie - Henry
Lawson.
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"Faces In The Street" - Henry Lawson, 1888)
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown;
.... I sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street. ...
I wonder would the apathy of wealthy men endure
Were all their windows level with the faces of the Poor?
Ah! Mammon's slaves, your knees shall knock, your hearts in terror beat,
When God demands a reason for the sorrows of the street,
The wrong things and the bad things
And the sad things that we meet
In the filthy lane and alley, and the cruel, heartless street. ...
(Lawson, 1984:48)
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My Bibliography used foir the submission included ............
Allard, T., Agencies take fee and then desert jobless, in Sydney Morning
Herald, Tuesday March
30, 1999. p. 7
Apple, M. (1996). Cultural Politics and Education. New York: Teachers
College Press.
Bolles, R. (1998) What Colour Is Your Parachute? (Berkeley:Ten Speed
Press)
Borowski, A, Encel S & E Ozanne E (eds) (1997), Ageing and Social Policy
in
Australia
(Cambridge University Press:Cambridge.)
Brennan, K. (1996),The Unemployment Minefield: A Shattering Experience.
Presented at the
National Conference on Unemployment, Brisbane, June 13-15, 1996 at
Queensland
University of Technology, Carseldine Campus
Carroll, B. (1977) Earning A Crust. (Sydney:Reed)
Dattner, F. (1996) ****d truth: an open letter to the Australian working
community
(Sydney:Woodslane)
Donnison, D. (1982) The Politics of Poverty (Oxford: Martin Robertson)
Freire, P. (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. (New York: Herder & Herder)
Heller, J. (1964) Catch-22 (London: Corgi)
Holligworth, P. (1979) Australians in Poverty (Melbourne: Nelson)
Kennedy, R. (1982) Australian Welfare History: Critical Essays (Sydney:
MacMillan)
Lawson, H. (1984) Faces in the Street (1888) in A Campfire Yarn: Complete
Works 1885
- 1900 (Sydney:Lansdowne)
Marginson, S. (1993). Education and public policy in Australia.
(Melbourne:
Cambridge
University Press.)
Marginson, S. (1992). Education as a branch of economics: The universal
claims of economic
rationalism. Melbourne Studies in Education.
NSW Committee on Ageing. (1998). Never Too Late To Learn: A re****t on
older
people and
lifelong learning. Sydney: NSW Govt.
²
21
Orwell, G. (1989) Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter,
Nineteen
Eighty-Four. (London:Octopus)
Pilger, J. (1998). Hidden Agendas. (London:Vintage)
Thomson, D (1989), The welfare state and generation conflict: winners and
losers in P Johnson,
C Conrad & D Thomson (eds), Workers versus pensioners: intergenerational
justice in an
ageing world, Centre for Economic Policy Research, (Manchester: Manchester
University
Press)
Tindall, M. (1997) Original Copy (Maitland: Birubi)
Walker, A (ed.) 1996, The new generational contract: intergenerational
relations, old age and
welfare (London:UCL Press)
Wansbrough, A.(1992), Unemployment: a re****t with proposals for policy
principles and action
by parishes and synod, Sydney: Uniting Church Board for Social
Responsibility.
Additional sources of material:
.. Employment Studies Centre, University of Newcastle
.. The Brotherhood of St Laurence
.. Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission
.. Australian Council of Social Service
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Of course, nothing above means anything to the ignorant uneducated
fundamentalist, "Randy" <pulpitfire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
"We're Christians! We're not supposed to think!" Fanny Wype (****ist Colony
Of The Dead)
"All things are probable. Try to believe." - Mark 17:1
"Really! Try to believe even if it's bloody stupid and irrational." -
Mark
17:2
"Why? Because I said so, that's why! Don't ask questions. Just
believe." - Mark 17:3
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