Featured in

- Published 20060905
- ISBN: 9780733319389
- Extent: 288 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)

Already a subscriber? Sign in here
If you are an educator or student wishing to access content for study purposes please contact us at griffithreview@griffith.edu.au
Share article
More from author

Tales from the desert camps
ReportageGETTING WORK IN Australian detention centres was once surprisingly easy. First, you sent your CV to Australasian Correctional Management's head office in Sydney and...
More from this edition

Lopping tall poppies
MemoirI WANT TO play God Only Knows at my wedding. A weird confession perhaps, but when you write books with swear words in the title, are...

Confusions of an economist’s daughter
EssayDad wore his "It's time" badge with its rusted pin to our small country school to vote. He wore it to irritate the National Party voters and Christian fundamentalists whose community was ours. But it was important not to be selfish, our parents said, so we were a Labor-voting family. We were lucky because life was comfortable, but others were not so lucky and deserved a break.

Not just any job
ReportageIT IS EITHER the best of times or the worst of times to be a young worker in Australia. For the lucky ones with...