old news 29 january 1998 thursday

the governement is going to spend 380 million dollars on the young jobless as part of a work for the dole plan which is not the way to treat people. The unions are threatening to shut the docks if they don’t get better worker conditions its a good move to force better conditions but not the best tactic. giving pauline hanson the first and chips treatment what does that mean. the katherine floods are compared to cyclone tracy in terms of damage. costello is trying to sell the idea of no exemptions to the gst which is over the top. Liberals to have free vote on a republic which is fair.