Students: take a year off, miss out on Youth AllowanceStudents are to meet today with Education Minister Julia Gillard to discuss proposed Youth Allowance reforms. The changes will make it difficult for gap year students to qualify for assistance.
Gap year
The Economy: Defence skills improving, but can we do better?
If the ALP get into office, their choice of Defence Minister will be every bit as important as Treasurer and Industrial Relations. As one famous exchange in US Senate estimates goes, a billion dollars here and a billion dollars there - pretty soon you are talking about real money.
The week in words, week in numbers
It’s Friday people, and you know what that means: we’ve used the transcripts from the Sydney 7.45am ABC News Bulletin from Monday to Friday to take 400 pages of news and current events and crunch it into this tag cloud for your perusal. This week was all about interest rates, interest rates, and interest rates.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 29 June, 2007
Just when you thought Australia was emerging as some sort of mature nation, along comes the idea of installing a Euro party boy in his mid-twenties as head of state. Prince William, 25, as governor-general?
