new unemployment rate?, page-17

wooduck, you answered my question with 'that the average age over 45'.

It is obvious that there must be a plan to provide incentives for those who retire later.

Our PM now wants to re-install a work for the dole. Now, I have no objection to that but will this be part of a 'plan' or just Liberal ideology.

What our PM is doing is like trying to fix a cement truck with a pair of tweezers, blind folded.

Part of an all encompassing economic blue print for infrastructure decentralization would be job creation. As discussed before, special economic zones in which specialized manufacturing and product development are central would/should produce work for millions of Australians.

Trouble is, as usual, governments think in three year cycles and therefore are as intelligent and emotional as three year olds.

Parliament House and it's shifty inhabitants should be moved to the South Pacific islands that will disappear as Global warming takes effect.

Trouble is they will still be heard....politicians can talk underwater.