The Federal Government will release the White Paper on Employment Opportunities in May. The paper promises wide-ranging changes to the definition and management of unemployment within our society. Three commentators give their views on this new turning of the Keating Government.
Almost every unpleasant dose of medicine which Australians have been asked to swallow over the last decade has been prescribed to promote something called 'restructuring' - a historic process which is held out as the only cure for all our economic and social ills. And it is not only our domestic institutions and practices which must be restructured, but our links to and place within a rapidly changing world - a process often referred to…