# Alison Pennington

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261 - Alison Pennington Returns

She's back! Economist, comrade and now author Alison Pennington returns to the show to discuss her debut book Gen F'ed? How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures. We discuss how all the good jobs disappeared, our massively cooked housing market, replacing intergenerational warfare …

The Future for Australia – with Michael Walker

In this episode of The Five Minute Advocate, Michael reflects on Alison Pennington’s book “Gen F’d”. The book highlights a number of issues future Australians will face, and how young people can move forward despite significant hurdles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E 30 - Benno's Brief: Its OK not to like Julia

Benno’s Brief is an occasionally op-ed episode of D’oh Kapital. On this episode Ben takes us on a not well-known path for some in the Australian Left called: “It’s OK to not like Julia”.Ben looks at why it totally OK not to like former Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, (and Kevin Rudd PM) l…

5. Universities and the nation’s workforce

What kinds of work will we be doing in 2040? What industries will still be going strong and which will have fallen away?  The training and education we need now will depend on the kinds of work - the industries and services - around which, as a nation we want to build our economy and society.  Au…

Crystal ball gazing into world of work in 2021

What will 2021 hold for you at work? We've wrangled the experts and polished the This Working Life crystal ball to bring you our best predictions for this year. Demographer, Bernard Salt thinks this is our chance to hit the reset button and rebuild our working lives to a much better place than ever…

Different generations talking about future generations

Sophie Howe and Alison Pennington, women from different generations but with the same goal to improve the living conditions of younger and future generations. 

Ok Boomer

Millions of Baby Boomers lucked out with affordable homes, free uni, jobs for life and a franking credit-fed retirement. Millennials and Gen Z are faring less… well, fairly. They’re stuck on a hamster wheel of insecure work, saddled with student loans and crammed into share houses paying off Boomer…

Top salaries for tech workers but no pay rise in sight for most workers

For most Australians, it has been quite a while since the last substantial pay rise. Why? When is it likely to change? Despite wage stagnation, some digital tech jobs are commanding premium salaries. Plus, behind the latest economic figures with Alan Kohler. Guests: Suzanne Steele, Managing Directo…

The Struggle for Young People: Gen F'd?

Our host Julie Macken welcomes the JPO's very own Dr Michael Walker to discuss economist Alison Pennington's book Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures and its relevance for the struggle of our overburdened youth. They seek to unpack three key themes raised by Penningt…

Why working-class kid turned millionaire banker Gary Stevenson wants you to join the fight against economic inequality

He's got a rags to riches origin story, a hit Youtube channel and a bestselling memoir. Now Gary Stevenson is using his platform to fight the growing divide between rich and poor across the western world — including in Australia. This conversation was recorded at the Melbourne Town Hall on 28 Febru…