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Mature-aged Workers forum series

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Tuesday 20th April, 5:30pm

Working Into Later Life - Individual Motivators and Organisational Barriers

Professor Louise Rolland
Centre for Business, Work and Ageing, Swinburne University

Louise is Professor of Ageing and Work at Swinburne University of Technology and CEO of Business Work and Ageing (BWA). Her background in labour market policy, economic development and business administration brings a cross sectoral view to the work of BWA. In her role as CEO of BWA Louise overseas the academic research agenda of the BWA Centre for Research and the business and government services delivered by the organisation.

The Generations, Retirement and the Lifecourse: How Do Women Fare?

Associate Professor Linda Hancock
Deakin University

Linda Hancock is Director of the Public Policy Program at Deakin University. She is active in European and comparative research, particularly on social policy and labour markets. She is presently working on two research projects: The Women's Audit Project, focused on auditing government commitment to social and women's policy interests in Australia, drawing comparatively on international and EU social policy. Secondly, she is co-chief investigator with Prof. Brian Howe on a two-year project From Risk to Opportunity: Labour Markets in Transition. Recent publications include: Health Policy in the Market State (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998); Women. Public Policy and the State (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1999), and ReWriting Rights in Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).

Chair:

Associate Professor Liz Ozanne
Convenor Ageing & Long Term Care Research Unit
Deputy Head, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne

Tuesday 27th April, 5:30pm

Does the Ageing Population Require More Work (and less fun)?

Professor Ian McDonald
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne

In 1974, Ian McDonald was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of Melbourne. In 1990 he was appointed to a Chair in Economics at The University of Melbourne. From 1993 to 1996 he served as Head of the Department of Economics. He has held visiting positions at Nanyang University, Singapore, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A and Queen’s University, Canada.

His areas of expertise are:

-    unemployment and inflation
-    demographic change and future living standards
-    macroeconomic policy

His main research interests are in unemployment, inflation and saving. He has written many articles for professional journals and three books, including a macroeconomic textbook for second year university students.

Download Professor McDonald's notes (Word document, 24 kb)

(for other articles, click here to visit the Ageing Policy section of the Clearinghouse.

The Ageing Population - Workforce Implications

Julia Perry
Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Julia Perry is an independent research specialising in the transition to retirement, and other issues associated with ageing, particularly in the area of housing. As a visiting research fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre in 1999-2000, she worked on issues of early exit including designing and analysing the FaCS commissioned survey of Workforce Circumstances and Retirement Attitudes of Older Australians. She was commissioned in 2001 by the NSW Committee on Ageing to write the influential report Too Young To Go on the policy issues raised by mature aged unemployment. She was also involved with the Centre for Public Policy New Social Settlement research project.

Download Julia Perry's paper (Word document, 74.5 kb)

Chair:

Professor Jim Carlton
Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne

Thursday 29th April, 5:30pm

in conjunction with the Melbourne Institute, the School of Social Work at the University of Melbourne and the Office of Senior Victorians.

What Government can do for the Older Worker

Professor Juhani Ilmarinen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Panellists:

Associate Professor Liz Ozanne
Convenor Ageing & Long Term Care Research Unit
Deputy Head, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne

Professor Mark Wooden
Director, Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, Melbourne Institute

Chair:

Professor Brian Howe
Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne

Download Professor Ilmarinen's presentation (Powerpoint document, 1.55 MB)

Tuesday 4th May, 5:30pm

Coping with an Ageing Population

Dr Craig Emerson MP
Federal Shadow Minister for Workplace Relations and the Public Service

Craig Emerson is the Federal Shadow Minister Workplace Relations. He was elected to Parliament in 1998 and appointed to the Shadow Ministry in 2001, as Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism.

As a first-time backbencher, Craig was Chair of the ALP Caucus Committee for Living Standards and Economic Development, and Secretary of the Petrol Price and Business Activity Statement Inquiries.

Craig has held the positions of Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Economic Adviser to Finance Minister Peter Walsh and Senior Policy Adviser to Premier Wayne Goss. He has also held several senior public service positions in Federal and State governments. He was CEO of the Southeast Queensland Transit Authority, Director-General of the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage and Assistant Secretary, Industries, Trade and Resources Division, in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Craig has also worked in the United Nations, academia and private consulting and has published extensively in areas such as mining, ecologically sustainable development and Australia’s economic future.

Craig holds Honours and Masters degrees in Economics from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University.

Download Dr Emerson's speech (Word document, 277 kb)

Older Workers and Changing Labour Markets: the Dilemma for Trade Unions

Professor Carla Lipsig-Mummé
Monash University

Dr. Carla Lipsig-Mummé is Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Arts and Research Professor in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. She is also Vice-President of the International
Sociology Association's Research Committee on Comparative Labour, founding Director of Monash University’s W.A.G.E. (the Centre for Work And Society in the Global Era), and was founding Director of CRWS, a similar centre at York University in Canada. She began her working life as a union organiser in California’s most exploited industries: garments and agriculture.

Her scholarly work focuses on labour studies within the context of political economy, global integration, and social movements of opposition and dissent. Recent publications are on youth and the labour movement, women and unions, the language of organising, community unionism, the university as an arena for workers’ rights, precarious employment and the struggle for citizenship, the janus-face of the service economy, and the impact of global economic integration of workers’ rights.

Scholarship and political engagement have cross-pollinated each other throughout her career.

Download Professor Lipsig-Mummé's notes (Powerpoint document, 460 kb)

Chair:

Associate Professor Liz Ozanne
Convenor Ageing & Long Term Care Research Unit
Deputy Head, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne

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