CONTRACT WITH AUSTRALIA?:

Learn-or-earn plan for youth (Jason Frenkel and Gerard McManus, May 14, 2004, news.com.au)

LABOR promised tax cuts for the low paid and a new plan to force young people into work and training as the centrepiece of its Budget response last night. [...]

Under the plan, young people would have to take part in either paid work or further education and training.

"Each year in Australia we waste the skills of 45,000 young people who leave school early and don't go on to full-time work or study," Mr Latham said.

"They're at risk of becoming a lost generation - dropping out of the system, dropping out of society.

"Under our policy, young people will have just two options: they can be either learning or earning. No third option of sitting around doing nothing."

We are all Gingrichians now.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 13, 2004 9:01 PM