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Article: AFTER THE JOB NETWORK, THE DELUGE.
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- Arena Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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LIVES WASTED IN THE OVERFLOW
Another Liberal employment minister has set an example to employed workers by tranquilly accepting the loss of his job. David Kemp, who owed his position to his predecessor's over-argumentativeness, decided early on that the best way to hang on to his job was to stonewall resolutely any and all criticism. He would save enormous sums of government money by devising a press release to cover all contingencies, asserting that nothing is or could be wrong.
The new minister, Reith, will put the boot in and ignore criticism. What he tried and failed to do to the watersiders, Reith will try on the far less organised unemployed. One ...