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...half-heartedly wish some enterprising young socialist would catalogue the supposed “evils” of the huge consulting and financial consortiums that employ University resources to recruit our top talent every year. This would at least provoke a bit of debate on campus about the best way to make use of our education. Yet this prospect is dubious because although the dominant ideology expressed on campus is liberal, the main mode of action is very much conservative...
...artesian baths and, since the 1950s, its festering racial tensions, crime, poverty and social dysfunction. Forty years ago, Moree was one of the key stops on the Freedom Ride, led by Charles Perkins and other students, to draw attention to discrimination against blacks. In 1997, Estens started the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES), a not-for-profit company that tries to find work for indigenous people through corporate partnerships; going beyond the standard approaches of employment agencies, the AES is staffed solely by indigenous people, who provide mentoring support for the 300 or so workers they place each year. "There...
...settles into his pitch, which always comes with dramatic hand gestures. "It's about stretching communities." "We want people to lift themselves up." "Those on welfare are a pull-down on others." "I'm interested in that middle third." If the money can be found, Estens would like to employ a manager for the security service, to ease some of the workload of local AES boss Mike Nolan. While some in the AES worry about a change in direction in the security service - away from events and supermarkets to quasi-policing in no-go estates - Estens believes the work...
...issues away here." The next day, passing a building lot as the frame for a new house is going up, Dahlstrom laments there are no Murris on site - even though there are several indigenous carpenters in town. He points out an industrial workshop: "That bloke will never employ Aboriginal people. He's bringing in workers from Asia and the Pacific...
...Burnout.' "My husband always worked," she says. "And I'd like to try it as well. I've finally found some independence, away from the family and grandchildren. I wonder whether any of the things I've learnt in this course will be of use. Who would want to employ me?" Employment coordinator Natalie Tighe says mature women are seen as a safe bet by employers - they aren't going to have more children, are settled and have the people skills required for services. Like Natalie Green who, having completed an AES course, does the evening security round at Woolworths...