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Youth Suicide and Howard’s Australia

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday June 14, 2006 15:38author by Reid

Thank you for your article (link below) on Howard and particularly for highlighting his disregard for Australian youth. I am appalled by his attitude to young Australians. Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the developed world and little wonder; the short-term interests of corporate profit, crushing taxation laws and the introduction of ‘guest workers’ have stolen the future from the majority of our youth. Our youth now experience ever-increasing difficulty obtaining work skills needed for their survival.

Full story:
http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/newswire.php?story_id=231

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