House debates

Thursday, 22 March 2007

Questions without Notice

Employment and Workplace Relations

2:38 pm

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pessimism amongst young people. That is what it is about. The manual has class tests for students, including fictitious case studies such as Toula, a year-12 pupil forced to accept $1.50 an hour at a part-time job. It also urges PE teachers to exploit the industrial relations side of sport as students learn to develop and practise enterprise skills as they organise, conduct and evaluate physical activity. History teachers are urged to steer their classes towards subjects such as ‘The role of unions in participatory democracy’. This is what the Labor Party is about. The Labor Party and the union movement are trying to create a culture of victimisation amongst young people—

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