Registration begins at 8.30 on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at the University Club, which is located near to the Shortland Union Building at the West Campus of the University of Newcastle. The official program commences at 9.15 and two rooms are being used: (a) The University Club; and (b) The Treehouse (located in the Shortland Union Building and a 1 minute walk from the Registration area).

Complete abstracts description

The following program indicates whether the paper is in the refereed volume of Conference Proceedings, or is non-refereed, or was not available to the organisers. The refereed volume of Conference Proceedings and a CD with both refereed and non-refereed papers will be made available for all delegates upon arrival at the conference.

The Keynote sessions are of 45 minutes in duration. The parallel session papers are 20 minutes for each presentation plus 10 minutes following each paper for questions and discussion.

8.30-9.00	Registration - University Club, near the Shortland Union Building with tea/coffee available.
Session 1:	Parallel Session A - University Club Chair: Anthea Bill	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Graham Wrightson
09.00-09.30	'Get Rich or Die Trying': Value under WorkChoices Taliessin Reaburn, University of Melbourne, Australia. Non-Refereed	Deleuze and Guattari's Political Economy of the State James Juniper, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
09.30-10.00	Trends in effective marginal tax rates 1996-97 to 2006-07 Alicia Payne, Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu, and Richard Percival, NATSEM, University of Canberra, Australia. Non-Refereed	The Reserve Army of Labour: The 457 International Brigades Harry Williams, University of Newcastle, Australia. Non-Refereed
10.00-10.02	Official Welcome from Professor Bill Mitchell, Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle, Australia.
Session 2: 10.00-10.45	Feature address Room: University Club Chair: Bill Mitchell Australia's neo-liberal path Kenneth Davidson, Senior economics writer for The Age and Co-Editor, Dissent Magazine.
10.45-11.15	Morning Tea - University Club
Session 3:	Parallel Session A - University Club Chair: Martin Watts	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Jenny Myers
11.15-11.45	Keynesian Aggregate Supply, the Role of Incomes Policies and the Approach to Full Employment Greg Smith, University of New England, Australia. Refereed	Preparing the way for the portfolio careerist in the tourism industry Kevin Lyons, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
11.45-12.15	Searching for regional responses for global challenges: Spatial inequalities in the labour market Emma Allen, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Skills Shortages in the Australian Rail Industry Anusha Mahendran and Mike Dockery, CLMR, Curtin University, Australia. Refereed
12.15-12.45	Going Up? Job Mobility and Segmentation in City Labour Markets Anthea Bill, Bill Mitchell and Riccardo Welters, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Employment policy for the chronically ill: Cancer patients and survivors in the workplace Carol Healy and Frances Lovejoy, UNSW, Australia, Refereed
12.45-13.45	Lunch - University Club
Session 4: 13.45-14.30	Feature address Room: University Club Chair: Bill Mitchell The foundations for a worker's rights charter The Honourable Paul Munro Paul Munro served from 1986 to 2004 as Justice Munro, a Senior Presidential Member of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (the AIRC) or its predecessors.
Session 5:	Parallel Session A - University Club Chair: James Juniper	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Riccardo Welters
14.30-15.00	Financial Development, Effective Demand and Employment: Application of a Kaleckian, Post-Keynesian model Taha Chaiechi, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	Redefining the ageing workforce in local governments: mapping the aspirations of older/blue collar workers with organisational training and development innovations Tricia Fox, Hitendra Pillay, Kathy Kelly (LGAQ) and Megan Tones, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Refereed
15.00-15.30	Endogenous Money, Non-neutrality and Interest-sensitivity in the Theory of Long Period Unemployment Peter Docherty, UTS. Non-Refereed	Profiling the South Australian Labour Market Lise Windsor and Chris Zielinksi, SA Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology, Australia. Non-Refereed
15.30 - 16.00	Afternoon Tea - University Club
Session 6: 16.00-16.45	Feature address Room: University Club Chair: Bill Mitchell The Experience of Middle Australia Professor Michael Pusey FASSA, Professor of Sociology, University of NSW, Australia.
Session 7:	Parallel Session A - University Club Chair: Beth Cook	Parallel Session B - Treehouse Chair: Emma Allen
16.45-17.15	Are gross job flows sensitive to exchange rate movements? Bill Mitchell and Jenny Myers, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed	The unemployed, the retired and the retrenched: some similariies and differences in anxiety and experienced stress Richard Hicks and M. Chan, Bond University, Australia. Non-Refereed
17.15-17.45	Is the Foreign Exchange Rate a Constraint on Full Employment Policies in Australia? John Nevile and Peter Kreisler, Department of Economics,UNSW, Australia. Refereed	The Impact of the Provision of Informal Care on Labour Force Participation Behaviour Martin Watts, CofFEE, University of Newcastle, Australia. Refereed
17.45	End of Day 1 Sessions - Shuttle available back to city in preparation for Dinner
17.50-18-10	Business Meeting in University Club - a short meeting of interested parties will be held to consider the organisation of the National Unemployment Conference in 2007.
19.00 for 19.30	Conference Dinner - Customs House, Newcastle. The dinner is included in the conference registration fee. Customs House is in walking distance of all the major hotels in Newcastle. It is located opposite the main railway station.

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