Epigraph: 'It shows the top half of the workforce enjoying permanent, well-paid, full-time jobs, while the bottom half can find only casual, poorly-paid, part-time work which, as Labour market economist Professor Sue Richardson warned this week, was creating a class of "excluded and dangerous" men with incomes to low to support a family.' -- The Age, October 04, 2003

Epigraph: 'My discourse is sans words, sans tongue, sans sound: understand it then, sans mind, sans ear.' -- Farid Ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds