Listening Tour Diary
Welcome to the Listening Tour… Sunday 25 November 2007
This interactive website has been designed for you to have your say. This will be particularly useful if you can’t make it to one of the Listening Tour Events, or you just want to keep abreast of developments as the tour progresses.
There are several ways you can have your say. You can post to a blog, or you can send us your feedback via email.
I hope you will let me know what you think are the most important issues for me to pursue over the next five years.
See you soon.
Liz
Elizabeth Broderick
Sex Discrimination Commissioner & Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination
SandyX Said,
November 26, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
As a woman with depression, I have completely given up trying to access, and stay in, the workforce.
Even though I am only 50 and skilled in a number of areas, I find it to be completely impossible to get work. Australia’s boom times do not, and are not ever going to, include me.
Sandra.
Adelaide
Steven Said,
November 26, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
“Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination”
Has it occurred to anyone that this sounds like you’re the *cause* of age discrimination - you’re ‘responsible’ for it? (I realise it’s supposed to mean it’s within your ballywick, but still …)
Alex Said,
November 28, 2007 @ 11:37 am
This is a terrific initiative, Liz!
Way to go on using the net constructively and involving a wider range of people. It’d be great if the other Commissioners took heed from a clever newb.
Anonymous Said,
December 5, 2007 @ 9:47 am
As a casualised female academic I am now looking forward to more than 2 months of unpaid leave, afraid to even try and access Centrelink because of their relentless clawback. At least I can now “care” for my aging husband who retired early due to sickness, and my adolescent son whose disability kept me out of the workforce. Roll on old age and real poverty! Do I fail to get permanent jobs because (a) I am too stupid (PhD completed) (b) too old (older than my mother was when she retired) or (c) female…or none of the above…just another victim of Australia’s great economic boomtime