Even before the recent ruling on penalty rates by the Fair Work Commission, Australia’s long-established junior pay rates system provided for the biggest differential between youth wage rates and the minimum wage in the world. Deregulation, the murky world of internships, the escalating cost of education, the oppressive property market and other legislation are all fronts in the government’s war on young people. Mike Seccombe reports.
Plus: Guy Rundle on the collapse of the labour movement, Paul Bongiorno on the government’s response to One Nation, and an editorial celebrating our third anniversary.
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