Baby Boomer Women Seek Restitution
The issue
The Australian Prime Minister has erased the collective memory of 2.8 million Baby Boomer WOMEN, when he loftily promoted the flawed generational wealth illusion and apparent economic privileges of 'ALL' Boomers with the statements-:
"Our generation BENEFITED from aspiration and OPPORTUNITY in our younger years that resulted in accumulated WEALTH"
and
"When you know the next generation is doing it TOUGHER than my Generation. ............... "
This effacement and 'trashing' of Baby-Boomer WOMEN by the suit-and-tie brigade, who have conveniently rubbed-out the historic institutional barriers that severely restricted women's lifelong wealth accumulation, leaving them disproportionately vulnerable to poverty and homelessness in their older years, as well as the reality of systemic gender captivity, has not only defamed and dishonoured BB women again, but has incited a public discourse that is vilifying them in their community. Hate speech and disguised hostility are being directed at us, the older women, even now in our final years, thanks again, to the Old Boys Club!
BB Women are included in what is described by politician's as the 'lucky generation' who have supposedly received the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and economic outcomes i.e. the same age demographic, who came from the inhumane atrocities known as the ‘Stolen Generation’, the "Forgotten Australians” and the Migrant Children from the UK & Malta after WW11, who grew up in Australian orphanages, foster care, and out-of-home institutions, that faced systemic physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, coupled with the trauma of lost identities and forced labour.
We are the women who either sustained appalling mistreatment for falling pregnant when unmarried, described as ‘unfit, ’ denied financial support; and were hidden in religious or government labour camps dressed up as maternity homes, or we are their children, sickeningly described as ‘illegitimate’ or ‘bastards.’
We are the "Lab Rat" tested children, many Aboriginal, along with other vulnerable youth in state care and orphanages, who were utilized as subjects for clinical trials without informed consent and we are the women historically rooted in the eugenics and population control programs.
We are the generation of WOMEN who were used as guinea pigs &/or are the recipients of some of the most severe medical disasters in history such as Thalidomide which caused children to be born with underdeveloped limbs, eye and ear defects, congenital heart disease and other severe health issues .
Poignantly, Mr Albanese is not the one in three women who has been sexually violated by age 15, a statistic the female BB generation is very much a victim/survivor of, with many only speaking up about it now. More relevantly, he has not had to anxiously and helplessly face the horror, for decades, at the extermination of his own kind, week after week, with no end in sight, or likely come close many times himself, or suffered the financial set-backs and hardship as a consequence of the violence against him.
What is more, he has not been further beaten down by a justice system run on the shame and disparagement of his gender, or as with First-Nation’s women, had a life marked by systemic state-sanctioned practices of coercive sterilization, financial exploitation and denigration of motherhood, all the while being fed rhetoric from governments about change.
Yes, we, the women of the BB generation, also represent the anticipators to the ‘Blue Ribbon Panel’, over 50 years of political promises served up in a plethora of performative reports, wordy taskforces, reports and inquiries on domestic violence, rape & child abuse issues since the late 60’s & early 1970’s, which continue to affirm the mass slaughter inflicted on women and the most vulnerable humans in this country every week, that is children.
This isn't just about my story; this is the story of many, many, many women who belong to my generation.
Unfortunately, Mr Albanese, in his recent narrative on generational wealth, has overlooked the unique challenges that baby boomer women have faced and continue to face. This oversight contributes to the ongoing marginalization of women who have already been historically disenfranchised. By focusing solely on a generalized narrative without acknowledging the gender-specific hurdles faced by Baby Boomer women, the narrative perpetuates the inequities that have deprived many of us from achieving financial security.
Over the years, women of the Baby Boomer generation have battled against pay gaps, unequal opportunities, and a lack of support for women in leadership positions. Women in my generation earned significantly less than their male counterparts, which affected their retirement savings, homeownership, and overall net worth. Furthermore, societal expectations and responsibilities, such as caregiving, have often been shouldered primarily by women, further limiting their economic opportunities.
On the other side, we are the generation of women who also fought hard to dismantle the structural and cultural double-standards consigned on women; as being the generation that broke the glass ceiling and affected some of the changes in workplace equity, economic independence, access to contraception, rape law reform and more.
We are the women who's hearts bleed for today’s younger people, who, by the way, are our precious children and grandchildren striving to access, what should be, a fait-accompli in this first world country, (based on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights law ratified by Australia in 1996), whilst they struggle with an exorbitant cost of living, HECS debts and more.
We, the supposedly more fortunate older citizens, not only understand and sincerely sympathise, but are the lived-experience of many feckless governments who have failed us, caused more unnecessary hardship, and used finger-pointing and scapegoating on citizen groups, like us, as their fall-guy. These groups include immigrants, the LGBTIQA community, First Nations peoples, welfare recipients, feminist activists and the anti-war left (hippies) to name a few.
We may also be, one of Australia’s most under-recognised assets at this point in time, to the negligent, ego-centric, deceitful governments who have failed the Australian people in accessing their own dwelling becasue many of us, without question, have stepped up BIG time, by putting aside our long awaited retirement freedoms (and savings) to be ‘the bank of mum (and dad), have used our home equity for a house deposit for our kids, cashing in investments and then loaning it without interest, covering the cost of HECS debts, doing the lion share of childcare or accommodating adult kids living at home much, much longer, often with many returning back home with their partners and children (our grandkids). All as a result of a ‘severe’ housing shortage and the excessive cost to buy driven by the fundamental economic law of supply and demand, a serious situation flagged to governments many times by the early 2000’s, with an official sounding alarm in 2009 as was the need to build more social housing that governments had, in their inimitable wisdom, sold off decades before. https://theconversation.com/australias-deeply-unfair-housing-system-is-in-crisis-and-our-politicians-are-failing-us-219001
Nevertheless, this is about a politicians comments that have led to an act of discrimination and a breach to the fundamental rights of older Australians to live safely, free from oppression, violence and from 'ARBITRARY INTERFERENCE." This toxic discourse and generational divisiveness propagated by our political leader's narrative, has polarized the country and now, we can't unring that bell.
Please sign this petition to create a groundswell of signatures in seeking compensation for damages to the reputational harm, interference to the enjoyment of life and fear of retribution being experienced by Baby Boomer Women in Australia (in their final years), as a consequence of this political propaganda. In addition, to support the lodgement of a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Authored by a retired Community Services Coordinator, Author, Activist, victim/survivor, and campaigner, and who has deliberately stayed under the radar after having had her 15 minutes of fame. However, the veiled aggression she is experiencing, untruths spruiked by officials, and watching her sister-hood (women) in Australia, continuing to NOT MATTER, has compelled her to speak up.
Youtube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePtgh5gPTo
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The issue
The Australian Prime Minister has erased the collective memory of 2.8 million Baby Boomer WOMEN, when he loftily promoted the flawed generational wealth illusion and apparent economic privileges of 'ALL' Boomers with the statements-:
"Our generation BENEFITED from aspiration and OPPORTUNITY in our younger years that resulted in accumulated WEALTH"
and
"When you know the next generation is doing it TOUGHER than my Generation. ............... "
This effacement and 'trashing' of Baby-Boomer WOMEN by the suit-and-tie brigade, who have conveniently rubbed-out the historic institutional barriers that severely restricted women's lifelong wealth accumulation, leaving them disproportionately vulnerable to poverty and homelessness in their older years, as well as the reality of systemic gender captivity, has not only defamed and dishonoured BB women again, but has incited a public discourse that is vilifying them in their community. Hate speech and disguised hostility are being directed at us, the older women, even now in our final years, thanks again, to the Old Boys Club!
BB Women are included in what is described by politician's as the 'lucky generation' who have supposedly received the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and economic outcomes i.e. the same age demographic, who came from the inhumane atrocities known as the ‘Stolen Generation’, the "Forgotten Australians” and the Migrant Children from the UK & Malta after WW11, who grew up in Australian orphanages, foster care, and out-of-home institutions, that faced systemic physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, coupled with the trauma of lost identities and forced labour.
We are the women who either sustained appalling mistreatment for falling pregnant when unmarried, described as ‘unfit, ’ denied financial support; and were hidden in religious or government labour camps dressed up as maternity homes, or we are their children, sickeningly described as ‘illegitimate’ or ‘bastards.’
We are the "Lab Rat" tested children, many Aboriginal, along with other vulnerable youth in state care and orphanages, who were utilized as subjects for clinical trials without informed consent and we are the women historically rooted in the eugenics and population control programs.
We are the generation of WOMEN who were used as guinea pigs &/or are the recipients of some of the most severe medical disasters in history such as Thalidomide which caused children to be born with underdeveloped limbs, eye and ear defects, congenital heart disease and other severe health issues .
Poignantly, Mr Albanese is not the one in three women who has been sexually violated by age 15, a statistic the female BB generation is very much a victim/survivor of, with many only speaking up about it now. More relevantly, he has not had to anxiously and helplessly face the horror, for decades, at the extermination of his own kind, week after week, with no end in sight, or likely come close many times himself, or suffered the financial set-backs and hardship as a consequence of the violence against him.
What is more, he has not been further beaten down by a justice system run on the shame and disparagement of his gender, or as with First-Nation’s women, had a life marked by systemic state-sanctioned practices of coercive sterilization, financial exploitation and denigration of motherhood, all the while being fed rhetoric from governments about change.
Yes, we, the women of the BB generation, also represent the anticipators to the ‘Blue Ribbon Panel’, over 50 years of political promises served up in a plethora of performative reports, wordy taskforces, reports and inquiries on domestic violence, rape & child abuse issues since the late 60’s & early 1970’s, which continue to affirm the mass slaughter inflicted on women and the most vulnerable humans in this country every week, that is children.
This isn't just about my story; this is the story of many, many, many women who belong to my generation.
Unfortunately, Mr Albanese, in his recent narrative on generational wealth, has overlooked the unique challenges that baby boomer women have faced and continue to face. This oversight contributes to the ongoing marginalization of women who have already been historically disenfranchised. By focusing solely on a generalized narrative without acknowledging the gender-specific hurdles faced by Baby Boomer women, the narrative perpetuates the inequities that have deprived many of us from achieving financial security.
Over the years, women of the Baby Boomer generation have battled against pay gaps, unequal opportunities, and a lack of support for women in leadership positions. Women in my generation earned significantly less than their male counterparts, which affected their retirement savings, homeownership, and overall net worth. Furthermore, societal expectations and responsibilities, such as caregiving, have often been shouldered primarily by women, further limiting their economic opportunities.
On the other side, we are the generation of women who also fought hard to dismantle the structural and cultural double-standards consigned on women; as being the generation that broke the glass ceiling and affected some of the changes in workplace equity, economic independence, access to contraception, rape law reform and more.
We are the women who's hearts bleed for today’s younger people, who, by the way, are our precious children and grandchildren striving to access, what should be, a fait-accompli in this first world country, (based on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights law ratified by Australia in 1996), whilst they struggle with an exorbitant cost of living, HECS debts and more.
We, the supposedly more fortunate older citizens, not only understand and sincerely sympathise, but are the lived-experience of many feckless governments who have failed us, caused more unnecessary hardship, and used finger-pointing and scapegoating on citizen groups, like us, as their fall-guy. These groups include immigrants, the LGBTIQA community, First Nations peoples, welfare recipients, feminist activists and the anti-war left (hippies) to name a few.
We may also be, one of Australia’s most under-recognised assets at this point in time, to the negligent, ego-centric, deceitful governments who have failed the Australian people in accessing their own dwelling becasue many of us, without question, have stepped up BIG time, by putting aside our long awaited retirement freedoms (and savings) to be ‘the bank of mum (and dad), have used our home equity for a house deposit for our kids, cashing in investments and then loaning it without interest, covering the cost of HECS debts, doing the lion share of childcare or accommodating adult kids living at home much, much longer, often with many returning back home with their partners and children (our grandkids). All as a result of a ‘severe’ housing shortage and the excessive cost to buy driven by the fundamental economic law of supply and demand, a serious situation flagged to governments many times by the early 2000’s, with an official sounding alarm in 2009 as was the need to build more social housing that governments had, in their inimitable wisdom, sold off decades before. https://theconversation.com/australias-deeply-unfair-housing-system-is-in-crisis-and-our-politicians-are-failing-us-219001
Nevertheless, this is about a politicians comments that have led to an act of discrimination and a breach to the fundamental rights of older Australians to live safely, free from oppression, violence and from 'ARBITRARY INTERFERENCE." This toxic discourse and generational divisiveness propagated by our political leader's narrative, has polarized the country and now, we can't unring that bell.
Please sign this petition to create a groundswell of signatures in seeking compensation for damages to the reputational harm, interference to the enjoyment of life and fear of retribution being experienced by Baby Boomer Women in Australia (in their final years), as a consequence of this political propaganda. In addition, to support the lodgement of a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Authored by a retired Community Services Coordinator, Author, Activist, victim/survivor, and campaigner, and who has deliberately stayed under the radar after having had her 15 minutes of fame. However, the veiled aggression she is experiencing, untruths spruiked by officials, and watching her sister-hood (women) in Australia, continuing to NOT MATTER, has compelled her to speak up.
Youtube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePtgh5gPTo
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Petition created on 15 June 2026