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...measures in Peter Costello's 11th Budget-particularly better child-care arrangements-show that the Howard government isn't completely deaf to concerns about female workforce participation. But the inadequacy of the changes to FTB rest on a simple truth: after a decade of constructing a family-welfare state on this scale, major improvements aren't likely to come from the architects. Labor leader Kim Beazley's support crew is mulling over the implications of the trends in tax and welfare. Beazley is now pitching to the middle; the tax burden, workplace insecurity, high petrol prices and interest-rate rises...
...editors: Re: “Sophomore Takes on the Border,” magazine, May 3: Something is truly upsetting about Kyle De Beausset and his story. I’m not upset about the plight of migrant workers; I’m simply upset about the twisted truth of the entire story. I have relatives that hire migrant workers to work on their farms. Each worker legally entered the United States and has the required documentation to work here. If you ask any one of them how bad their trip to the U.S. was, you would get the same...
...almost convinced myself that the 4-in.-high dust bunnies lurking in my house were good for my baby. "She'll grow up accustomed to dirt and won't develop allergies," I reasoned illogically. But in truth, my house was filthy. I didn't have the money to hire someone to clean it, and I was sure I didn't have time to clean it myself. But 10 months after my daughter's birth, as she progressed from immobile infant to roving, teething toddler, I ran out of excuses. The image of her actually confronting those unsanitary bunnies was enough...
...embroiled in a rancorous race to midterm elections, congressmen and senators seem more concerned with pandering to the vagaries of focus groups and opinion polls than devising a genuine solution to our oil addiction. They seek to find the proverbial silver bullet, unwilling to face the hard truth that our gasoline problem is not amenable to simplistic panaceas. But so far, Congress’s fixes have been impotent at best, its lobby-driven debate pusillanimous at worst. Americans deserve better...
...truth is that we must begin to make some tough decisions and painful sacrifices. Policies must be enacted to encourage consumers and businesses to become less dependent on gasoline; research and implementation of renewable energy technology must be pursued as a national priority, not as a footnote to perennially-stalled and misguided attempts to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling...