16 June 2014, Media Release from the Archdiocese of Melbourne
Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart
Good Friday is a Holy Day for Christians. Our community recognises its importance by observing it as a public holiday.
A public holiday is a privileged and powerful mark of respect which honours all that the death of Christ signifies: sacrifice, faithfulness and the giving of self in love. It is a way to focus on these values, as an important part of our Australian culture.
Media release, 10 June 2014
His Excellency Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Apostolic Nuncio in Australia, will join the panel of BBI-ACBC’s 10th National eConference, titled Pope Francis: Modelling the Ministry of St Peter.
Archbishop Gallagher will join Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB of Perth and other Catholic leaders to take an in-depth look at Pope Francis’ vision, role and leadership style.
The eConference will stimulate conversation about modelling the ministry of St Peter, women in the church, ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, ecclesiology, mission and media.
Anyone with a computer, tablet or mobile device can watch the eConference live and free of charge on Wednesday 11 June from 10.30am to 2.30pm (AEST). Sites and individuals can register now at francis.vivlive.com.
Dr Gerard Goldman, CEO of The Broken Bay Institute said, “We are proud to have Archbishop Gallagher joining our eConference Q&A panel. With registrations already exceeding all previous eConferences, this promises to be our largest one yet! We’re expecting up to 50,000 participants from all parts of Australia and over 20 countries participating on the day.”
Speakers include:
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, Archbishop of Perth (keynote speaker)
Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ, Congregational Leader of the Sisters of St Joseph Rev Associate Professor Gerard Kelly, President of Catholic Institute of Sydney Ms Selina Hasham, Communications Manager, Archdiocese of Sydney
Fr Noel Connolly SSC, Head of Mission & Culture, The Broken Bay Institute Archbishop Paul Gallagher, to join the Q&A panel discussion
Participants can send in questions via email, Facebook or Twitter for the Q&A panel discussion starting at 1.40pm. Last year, questions came from as far afield as Beijing, China; Hamilton, New Zealand and Geraldton WA.
For the first time in its history, the eConference has a Gold Sponsor, Catholic Church Insurance, whom we gratefully acknowledge for its assistance.
For more information visit: www.bbi.catholic.edu.au
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MEDIA RELEASE: 6 June, 2014
With the kick-off for 2014 World Cup only one week away, the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency, Caritas Australia, and its supporters are urging Australians to call on FIFA and the IOC to ensure their events are just and sustainable.
While large sporting events bring many benefits to their host countries, they can also adversely affect the most marginalised members of their societies.
Caritas Australia’s Sister Margaret Fyfe notes: “In Brazil, an estimated 21% of the population lives below the poverty line, and 11 million of these people live in the country’s favelas (slum districts). Discrimination, unemployment and poor access to basic resources are a daily problem for these vulnerable communities.”
Such problems can be found alongside exorbitant displays of wealth. Sister Margaret adds: “It’s been reported that the new stadium in Brasilia is the second-most expensive in the world.”
According to reports from Caritas Australia’s partner, the Movement for the Defence of Favela Residents (MDF), which works to improve living conditions in the favelas, many of their residents are being evicted, or have been threatened with eviction, to make way for stadiums, roads and other infrastructure for the World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
“It’s feared that the cost of this World Cup might surpass the costs of the last three combined,” said Sister Margaret.
This is particularly concerning, given that government funds that could have been used for much needed hospitals, schools and other facilities have been diverted to World Cup projects.
Through this year’s Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion Lenten Appeal, Australians learnt about the vulnerabilities and challenges of life in a favela from Maristely who lives in a Sao Paulo favela. With the support of Caritas Australia’s supporters, MDF has helped Maristely’s family to gain formal ownership of their house offering them security and safety in their community. But others continue to struggle in the shadow of the World Cup and the Olympics.
“Evicting people from their houses is a very complicated issue today. Their lives have been changed and complicated by the World Cup,” she said.
Maristely and her MDF colleagues recently organised a community meeting where she and other residents discussed the question ‘Who does the World Cup really benefit in Brazil?’. They discussed that sporting events like the World Cup should protect the most vulnerable and benefit the whole community, especially the poor. Maristely and her colleagues have vowed to continue their efforts and be a voice for justice in big sporting events like the World Cup.
“We know that it is not easy, but it is a fight we cannot forget about. Many families could be evicted from their homes, and if we don’t act quickly, unfortunately, they will have nowhere to go,” Maristely said.
To stand in solidarity with marginalised communities, read Caritas Australia’s Sports for Justice report and sign their petition to FIFA and the IOC at www.caritas.org.au/act/brazil.
Media contact: Nicole Clements 0408 869 833 or nicolec@caritas.org.au
2 June 2014
Joint media release from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council and Catholic Social Services Australia
The 2014 Federal Budget will deepen the divide between rich and poor, and the greatest burden will fall on those who are young, on families, and on those already struggling to find work, the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council and Catholic Social Services Australia have said in a joint statement.
“This Budget will make life even harder for those Australians who are least able to look after themselves”, said the Chairman of the ACSJC, Bishop Christopher Saunders. “It actually punishes individuals and families who look to Government for financial support and drives division and alienation in our Australian community.”
“I am particularly concerned about the Budget’s impact on Indigenous families and young people, many of whom already face deprivation and marginalisation and confront enormous barriers in finding work”, Bishop Saunders said.
Mrs Jackie Brady, Acting Executive Director of Catholic Social Services Australia, said: “The time-limited welfare payments for young people unveiled in the Federal Budget will not see the Federal Government live up to its pre-election promise to ‘not leave anyone behind’.”
“Without an adequate safety net, young people up to 30 years of age are being set up to fail. That is especially so when the Government is pulling back on programs such as Youth Connections, which we know are successful in helping young people make the move from school to work or further education.
“This particular budget initiative will no doubt save the Federal Government dollars – but at what cost to young people, their families, friends and the broader community?” said Mrs Brady.
“It is no surprise public surveys post-Budget are showing people are concerned,” said Mrs Brady. “This budget presents savings to the Federal Budget that have a domino effect on the household income – from cuts to the family tax benefit thresholds, the introduction of Medicare co-payments and changes to indexation rates for some payments and allowances. Many people are already surviving with limited means and have limited flexibility to absorb additional costs so it is inevitable that low to middle income households will suffer the most.”
‘If the government really wants us all to make a contribution, then it should be empowering those who are struggling – not punishing them’, Bishop Saunders said.
For further information, please contact:
Bishop Christopher Saunders, Chairman, ACSJC: 0418 260 155
Jackie Brady: 02 6285 1366 / 0417 220 779
Dr David Brennan, Acting National Executive Officer, ACSJC 02 8306 3499
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Gabrielle Sinclair, ACBC Office for Youth Projects Manager; Australian Catholic Bishops Delegate for Youth, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP; Malcolm Hart, Director ACBC Office for Youth
Media release, 26 May 2014
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) has announced the establishment of an ongoing national Office for Youth to evangelise and minister to youth and youth ministers in Australia.
The proposal for a youth office was approved at the ACBC November 2013 Plenary meeting. It was later announced at the Australian Catholic Youth Festival in front of 3,500 young people. The operational details and staffing have been developed in recent months and have now been finalised.
Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, the Bishops Delegate for Youth, shared his joy at the announcement.
“This is another sign of how highly the Australian bishops prioritise young people and want to respond to their hopes and needs. This new office builds upon the graces of World Youth Day 2008 and the efforts of the Church in Australia since. The office will provide inspiration and formation for the Church in its mission to share the message of Jesus Christ with young people.”
The ACBC Office for Youth will be staffed by a Director Malcolm Hart and a Projects Manager Gabrielle Sinclair.
Malcolm, who has worked for the Bishops Commission for Pastoral life (BCPL) for the past five years, has been appointed Director.
During this period, Malcolm led the implementation of a number of initiatives and resources including Australia’s participation in World Youth Day 2011 and 2013, and the hugely successful Australian Catholic Youth Festival.
“I am very grateful to the Bishops for the establishment of this office and for my appointment as Director. I am deeply passionate about sharing the message of Christ with young people and empowering them to go forward in their faith,” Malcolm said.
“The national office recognises the past work we have achieved under the auspices of the BCPL, and shows a strong commitment to the future. It is important for the Church in Australia to continue to see evangelisation of young people as a priority. We must continually look at how it can be implemented and supported. I hope the work of the national office for youth will assist in this growth,” Malcolm added.
Gabrielle Sinclair, the Office for Youth Projects Manager, has worked for the BCPL over the past two years.
In 2014 the Office for Youth will work towards updating and relaunching the Bishops vision for Youth Ministry; Anointed and Sent, develop the website and multimedia resources, and continue to manage ongoing events and existing projects.
From 3-5 October 2014, the Office for Youth will host the third Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention (ACYMC) in Adelaide. One of the keynote speakers will be Director of the Office for Youth, Malcolm Hart, discussing the experiences and practices of youth ministry across the country.
Further information about the Youth Ministry Convention is available at:www.acymc.org
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Left to right: Gabrielle Sinclair, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP and Malcolm Hart.
ACBC Office for Youth Staff with Australian Catholic Bishops Delegate for Youth.
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Left to right: Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio, Mr Jeremy Jones, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett, Mr Peter Wertheim, Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay OLM,
Rabbi David Freedman, Bishop Christopher Prowse and Mr William Arnold. Sitting: Bishop Michael McKenna, Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, Sr Elizabeth Delaney.
On Thursday 8th May 2014, members of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Bishops Commission for Ecumenism and Inter-religious Relations (BCEIR) met with leaders from the Jewish community for their annual conversation.
In keeping with the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, the Jewish leaders and the members of the BCEIR had agreed on the main focus of the conversation as; The Family.
This conversation recognised that modern society has different understanding of family. Both faiths seek to respond to people with respect and love.
During this time, the members of the Jewish community remembered Bishop Michael Putney and recalled the very significant contribution that he made to ecumenism and to relations with Jews, both internationally and in Australia.
They noted that the 50th Anniversary of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate occurs in 2015 and agreed that it will be fitting that Jews and Catholics together might mark this occasion.
Lulu Mitshabu, Caritas Australia, addresses women gathered at the ‘Empowering Women Around The World’ Luncheon
Women for the World
On 8 May 2014, Caritas Australia held an event ‘Empowering Women Around The World’ in Sydney.
Reflecting on the event, journalist Catherine Marshall wrote the following article in Eureka Street on 12 May.
Kidnapped Nigerian girls put the lie to Western Freedom
‘Lulu Mitshabu tells us to close our eyes. ‘Imagine your brothers, sisters, your mothers, your nieces, your nephews, your children, everybody that makes you smile, the good time you’re having,’ she says.
‘Open your eyes. The time that you took closing your eyes and thinking of your people, imagine now everybody you thought of disappeared from the face of this earth just in that minute. That’s my life in the DRC.’
There is stunned silence. It’s lunchtime in Sydney and we are sitting in the shadow of the beautiful Harbour Bridge, a symbol of wealth, progress and equal access for all.’
Read the article: http://bit.ly/1uXKlkb
Lulu speaks to Ben Fordham during the Caritas Australia Women for the World event.
Lulu Mitshabu was the keynote speaker, Caritas Australia’s Program Coordinator for the Democratic Republic of Congo and Caritas Diocesan Engagement Coordinator for Canberra, Goulburn and Wagga Wagga.
Lulu was interviewed by MC Ben Fordham, 2GB Radio Journalist and Channel Nine Sports Presenter, about being forced to flee the DRC as a refugee due to a lack of rights for women.
You can also watch a digital story about Lulu’s life and faith, which features in the Stirring Hearts project for World Communications Day this month:
http://www.stirringhearts.org.au/?p=5
8 May 2014
The Australian Catholic Bishops have been involved in many ways with asylum seekers. Some of us have detention centres close to home, and we have worked hard to ensure that asylum seekers receive proper pastoral care and human assistance. We renew that commitment here.
The Bishops have also intervened with Government in an attempt to make policy more respectful of human dignity and basic human rights, which today are being seriously violated.
We now make this urgent plea for a respect for the rights of asylum seekers, not only in Government circles but in the Australian community more broadly. Federal decision-makers in both major parties have made their decisions and implemented their policies because they think they have the support of the majority of Australians. Therefore, we want to speak to the entire Australian community.
The current policy has about it a cruelty that does no honour to our nation. How can this be when Australians are so generous in so many situations where human beings are in strife? Think of the way the Vietnamese boat people were welcomed in the 1970s and 80s. The question becomes more pointed when we think of the politicians who are making and implementing the decisions. They are not cruel people. Yet they have made decisions and are implementing policies which are cruel. How can this be so?
Island dwellers like Australians often have an acute sense of the “other” or the “outsider” – and that is how asylum seekers are being portrayed. They are the dangerous “other” or “outsider” to be feared and resisted because they are supposedly violating our borders.
Do racist attitudes underlie the current policy? Would the policy be the same if the asylum seekers were fair-skinned Westerners rather than dark-skinned people, most of whom are of “other” religious and cultural backgrounds? Is the current policy perhaps bringing to the surface not only a xenophobia in us but also a latent racism? The White Australia policy was thought to be dead and buried, but perhaps it has mutated and is still alive.
There may also be the selfishness of the rich. Not everyone in Australia is rich, but we are a rich nation by any reckoning. The asylum seekers are often portrayed as economic refugees coming to plunder our wealth. But the fact is that most of them are not being “pulled” to Australia by a desire for wealth but are being “pushed” from their homeland and other lands where there is no life worth living. No-one wants them.
The policy can win acceptance only if the asylum seekers are kept faceless and nameless. It depends upon a process of de-humanisation. Such a policy would be widely rejected if the faces and names were known. Bishops have seen the faces; we know the names; we have heard the stories. That is why we say now, Enough of this institutionalised cruelty.
We join with the Catholic Bishops of Papua New Guinea who have voiced their strong opposition to the use of Manus Island for detention. They have urged Australia “to find a more humane solution to people seeking asylum”. We do not accept the need for off-shore processing. But even if it continues, it surely does not require such harshness.
The Government and Opposition want to stop the boats and thwart the people-smugglers. But does this require such cruelty? Could not the same goals be achieved by policies, which were less harsh, even humane – policies which respected not only our international obligations but also basic human rights? Can we not achieve a balance between the needs of people in desperate trouble and the electoral pressures faced by politicians? We believe we can; indeed we must.
The Australian Catholic Bishops call on parliamentarians of all parties to turn away from these policies, which shame Australia and to take the path of a realistic compassion that deals with both human need and electoral pressure. We call on the nation as a whole to say no to the dark forces, which make these policies possible. The time has come to examine our conscience and then to act differently.
Bishop of Darwin Eugene Hurley and Bishop of Broome Christopher Saunders are both available for interview on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops.
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Archbishop Denis Hart, President Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
8 May 2014, media release
The Catholic Bishops of Australia have re-elected Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, as President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference for a two-year term.
The election took place during the plenary meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, which is taking place this week, 4th – 10th May, at Mary MacKillop Place, North Sydney.
Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, has been re-elected Vice-President of the Conference for a further two-year term.
The Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB and the Bishop of Port Pirie Gregory J. O’Kelly SJ were both elected to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Permanent Committee.
Continuing on the permanent committee are Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn Christopher Prowse, Bishop of Darwin Eugene Hurley and Bishop of Wollongong Peter Ingham.
Speaking during the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Plenary meeting, President Hart said: “I thank my fellow bishops and diocesan administrators for their dedication and commitment in governing the Australian Catholic Church at a time when we are facing many challenges.”
Over the course of the meeting, the bishops are discussing various issues including the treatment of Asylum Seekers, the Royal Commission and evangelisation.
“With prayer and planning we trust that our discussions and decision-making may be guided by the Holy Spirit,” Archbishop Hart said.
Following their plenary meeting in North Sydney, the Australian Catholic Bishops will travel to New Zealand to attend a week-long meeting of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania.
For media queries please contact Aoife Connors on 0450 348 597
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Bishop Christopher Saunders (Photo by Australian Catholic Directory)
Putting People First: The call for an economy of social inclusion
Pope Francis has renewed the call of the Church to make the dignity of the human person the central focus of national and global economies. His Apostolic Exhortation of November 2013 comments on economies in which ‘masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized’ and criticises free market competition, which has left many without work, without opportunity and on the fringes of society.
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting.[1]
Clearly Pope Francis doesn’t agree with the saying that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’, which has been used to describe the benefits of economic growth. Nor do a growing number of economists and policy experts who recognise that the outstanding performance of the economy can have very unequal outcomes.[2] Two decades of economic growth in Australia have seen the size of our economy double and income per capita increase by 50 per cent.[3] Despite this growth, many of us will know somebody for whom the system has failed.
Think of the older worker made redundant by technology and becoming ‘long-term unemployed’; a son or daughter completing their training but frustrated in the search for a job; a single mother trying to make ends meet on the Newstart Allowance; a household with work but still below the poverty line. The list could go on. Economic growth alone has not worked. As a nation, we need to consider those who have been excluded from the benefits of growth and devise a system of ‘inclusive growth’ that is more equitable in spreading wealth and opportunity.
The need for jobs providing fair wages and conditions
Australia faces a crisis in the income and conditions of its low-paid workers. Over many years, the Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations (ACCER) has represented the interests of the one-sixth of the workforce who have little bargaining power and rely on the minimum wage and the wages safety net. Minimum wages are failing to keep pace with the Australian standard of living.
Since the turn of the century, average weekly ordinary time earnings increased by 80 per cent, while the minimum increased by only 55 per cent. If the minimum wage had kept pace, it would be almost $100 more than the current $622.20.[4] Not only has the safety net failed to keep pace with the standard of living, but as a result, increasing numbers of working families are falling into poverty. The ACCER has drawn on data from the 2011 national Census which showed that 13.5 per cent of the 106,223 couple parent families with two children were living in poverty. The number of these families with at least one full time breadwinner was 55,020 – meaning over 110,000 children were in poverty even though a parent was in full time work.[5]
Australia has just recorded an annual wages growth of only 2.6 per cent – the lowest since records started in 1997.[6] Over the past year prices have increased by 2.9 per cent.[7] Yet some are still calling for real minimum wages to be cut even more in order to increase jobs growth. It is not only the wages safety net that is at risk. Major inquiries are being initiated into workplace law and the possibility of changes to penalty rates and conditions, unfair dismissal and bargaining flexibility. It is unskilled and low paid workers with little or no bargaining power who remain in a precarious position when it comes to defending basic entitlements.
Unfortunately, the national debate on jobs growth has focused on this kind of low-wage flexibility. There has been little consideration of how we can invest in Australia’s workforce by developing skills that will make current and prospective workers more competitive in jobs that promise innovation, advanced production and better wages and conditions. A particular area of concern has been the strategy of recruiting increasing numbers of migrant workers to fill skills gaps in the economy. In the year to September 2013, the number of migrants on the 457 working visa grew by 12 per cent from 98,610 to 110,280. This increase was much higher than the 0.8 per cent growth in Australian employment.[8] While there will always be a place for skilled migrant workers in Australia, the dramatic increase in such arrangements gives an indication that our nation has not invested enough in the development of the domestic workforce.[9]
The need for income support underpinned by real job creation
It may seem strange to suggest that Australia is experiencing a job crisis when the official unemployment rate is at six per cent. However, this official rate conceals the dire circumstances of particular groups who are excluded from the labour market. Youth unemployment has risen sharply to 12.4 per cent, but is as high as 20 per cent in particularly disadvantaged regional and urban communities. Young people make up almost 40 per cent of all people who are unemployed. Their prospects are damaged by early exclusion from the market and a lack of basic experience and skills development.[10] Levels of long-term unemployment are also high at around 20 per cent, with people reporting the main barriers to employment are the low number of vacancies, too many applicants for available jobs and insufficient experience.[11]
People who are unemployed and dependent on income support are the most at risk of poverty and deep social exclusion.[12] The low payment rate of the Newstart and related Allowances as well as the lack of available jobs are immediate barriers to labour market participation. Consider also that over the past year the number of Newstart Allowance recipients increased by 6.4 per cent to 727,000. Among the 45,000 or more to come onto the Allowance are single parents shifted from Parenting Payment and people who no longer qualify for the Disability Support Pension since the introduction of tougher impairment tables.[13] Also competing with these jobseekers are just over half of the 817,000 underemployed part time workers who are actively seeking jobs providing more hours of work.[14]
What Australia faces is not a ‘welfare crisis’ but a ‘jobs crisis’. Reframing the debate to consider the failure of the market to create adequate employment would result in a new approach. Australia would invest more in training and skills development and move beyond the current emphasis on job search driven by tough compliance and penalty regimes. Instead of keeping Allowance payments low, we would increase them to lift people out of poverty and assist in their transition to work. The flagship of labour market policy would be a government-led job creation strategy, not a work-for-the-dole programme.
The call for an age of social inclusion
Australians are being warned that the so called ‘age of entitlement’ is over. It is regrettable that, throughout the two decades of economic growth, there has been so little discussion of our society’s obligations to those who have been left behind and excluded from the mainstream. These people do have entitlements!
Over thirty years ago, Pope John Paul II foresaw great changes in the world of work, and identified two fundamental entitlements. The first was the coordination of the economy to ensure ‘suitable employment for all who are capable of it’. The second was to make ‘unemployment benefits … [or] suitable grants indispensable for the subsistence of unemployed workers and their families’.[15] These are the foundations for social justice and inclusive growth.
We need an economy that is animated by a concern for dignity of workers and their families. As one commentator succinctly puts it: ‘unlike land and capital, labour is the only factor of production that comes with a human being attached’.[16] In cooperation with all sectors of business, unions, and the community, Government has a responsibility to ensure workers and their families are put first in the nation’s economic system. It should take the lead in:
We need a competitive and productive national economy. But we cannot leave it to the market alone. There is a responsibility on government to ensure all people can make their contribution to the productivity of our nation and reap the benefits of growth. In a modern society, how can we create employment – decent employment – for all who are capable of it? As Pope Francis says:
Growth in justice requires more than economic growth, while presupposing such growth: it requires decisions, programmes, mechanisms and processes specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.[17]
Most Rev. Christopher Saunders, DD
Bishop of Broome
Chairman, Australian Catholic Social Justice Council
[1] Pope Francis (2013), Evangelii Gaudium (‘The Joy of the Gospel’), Apostolic Exhortation, Art. 53–54.
[2] See: Paul Smyth & John Buchanan (Eds) (2013), Inclusive Growth in Australia: Social policy as economic investment, Allen & Unwin; Brian Lawrence (Ed) (2014), Working Australia, 2014: wages, families and poverty, ACCER (http://www.accer.asn.au/working-australia-2014/); Christine Lagarde (2014), Innovation, Technology and the 21st Century Global Economy, IMF address to Stanford University (http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2014/022514.htm).
[3] Rosalie McLachlan, Geoff Gilfillan & Jenny Gordon (2013), Deep and Persistent Disadvantage in Australia, Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper, Australian Government, p. 127.
[4] ACCER (2014), Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2013-14, March 2014, p. 15.
[5] ACCER (2014), p. 32.
[6] Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2014), Wages Price Index, Australia, Dec 2013. Cat. 6345.0.
[7] ABS (2014), Consumer Price Index, Australia, Mar 2014. Cat. 6401.0
[8] CFMEU National (2013), CFMEU Analysis of 457 Visa Trends, Report No 1, p. 10.
[9] AM with Chris Uhlmann (2014), Pressure to lift migrant intake, January 13, http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3924322.htm.
[10]Brotherhood of St Laurence (2014), Australian Youth Unemployment 2014: Snapshot, My Chance, Our Future Youth Unemployment Campaign, pp. 4–5.
[11] ABS (2014), Job Search Experience, Australia, July 2013. Cat. 6222.0.
[12] McLachlan, Gilfillan & Gordon (2013), pp. 11–12.
[13] Australia Council of Social Service (2014), Social Security Trends Snapshot – April 2014, p. 2.
[14] ABS (2014), Underemployed Workers, Australia, September 2013. Cat. 6265.0.
[15] Pope John Paul II (1981), Laborem Exercens (‘On Human Work’), Encyclical Letter, Art. 18–19.
[16] Ian Verrender (2014), Workers not the culprit of productivity slide, The DRUM, ABC, March 10, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/verrender-workers-not-the-culprit-of-productivity-slide/5309036
[17] Pope Francis (2013), Art. 204.