In Australia, age discrimination laws have become as much a matter of economic necessity as a question of fairness and social justice.
The country is experiencing chronic skills shortages in most of its major sectors. At the same time, its workforce is getting greyer.
By mid-century, over 25% of the population will be aged over 65. Partly for that reason, the Australian government passed the Age Discrimination Act in 2004.
This augmented a patchwork of state laws pioneered by New South Wales in 1977 and bolstered the first federal law which came into effect in 1996.
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