Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64? 74? 84?

I am not on the dole nor do I intend to apply for it because I think that with a B.Ed, Diploma of Teaching, Diploma of Professional Counselling, Cert 4 in Community Services, Cert 4 in Training and Assessment and a Cert 2 in Security so I could find some work at the G20 last year ($1,000 for the training and no work after the G20) that I would be able to find acceptable work to match my skills and not just traffic control as an example.

We deserve and want better. My suggestions are on the BONZA web site but the core of my anger is the acceptance that what is being done is enough until we have to react to future problems.

• Government has to encourage through workshops or employer presentations that we all have to accept the Boomer Challenge by perhaps employing 5% of unemployed Boomers each year as a suggestion (starting with the government departments)
• or perhaps allowing the Boomers easier access to grants to become self employed and create employment for others
• or perhaps challenging employers as we do now with the disabled to have a social conscience and allow Boomers equal access to jobs in line with other generations.

We need annual or bi -annual think tanks where the PM opens the proceedings with encouragement to all to make Ageing Australia a community and social problem for us all or we will be engulfed by the Boomer tsunami and be a poorer society for it if I am any example.

I hope you can join me outside Parliament next House next Tuesday and Wednesday and demand that our generation's future be taken seriously as we are 25 % of the population but I am quite happy to do it on your behalf.