Many hundreds of thousands of workers do jobs they don't want to do and at a cost to their private time, recreational interests and drinking time, which doubtless wouldn't be their preferred choice either. They report for work though and have self respect.

They also pay for their housing and take care of themselves and families.

There will always be a percentage who wouldn't work in an iron lung and prefer to put their efforts instead into avoiding work and some criminal activity on the side, or maybe crime is their undeclared occupation (eg bikies).

The problem is that cynical SOBs like L'il Willie Shorten and the crew who run Labor and Greens want to win power by any means and the votes of dole bludgers help them to win seats in the federal Parliament.

Get rid of compulsory voting for a start.

In my experience, job seekers who dress unconventionally or have tattoos / piercings tend not to get jobs as easily as those who conform. So in that respect, they are already being 'discriminated' against. But more broadly, Australians have already made an art form of discriminating against our young job seekers, regardless of how they look.
We demand tertiary qualifications for jobs that didn't need them in the past. Then we saddle kids with HECS bills that earlier generations never copped.
We move low skilled jobs offshore to access cheap labour then whinge about kids on the dole.
We've gutted TAFE and replaced it with a hopeless hodge-podge of private training providers, half of which make their money by operating as back doors to immigration. Likewise, the CES - which used to help people find work - was replaced by a gaggle of charities whose performance is just rubbish.
In the scheme of things, discriminating against tattooed hipsters is a sideshow.
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Beach, was that a typo "Get rid of compulsory voting for a start." should it not read "Get rid of voting for a start." Given your penchant for a police state, where regimentation and conformity are the order of the day.
There are thousands of people in Australia with tattoos and piercings who hold down regular well paying jobs with no problem. Unfortunately old conservatives can't understand young people, and treat them with suspicion, the message here from the crusty old brigade to the young comes across loud and clear; Conform to our standards, or we'll do our best to make your lives miserable.

Psychologists would tell you that it is the 'inked' dills who are conforming - to get attention and acceptance. That is very much like a streaker at the cricket, a sad, desperate SOB who would do that to get attention, having no other claims to separate him from the dross he is part of.

The inked are NOT individuals and it is someone else's doodling that defaces them anyhow.

As for Hipsters, they slavishly follow fashion and that includes being inked with the same designs, for instance triangles. At least many Hipsters find the shower occasionally, whereas most of the tattooed seem to have hygiene problems and an aversion to soap and water.

Now, what is going on with the number of tattoos and lack of teeth? The more the tatts the fewer the teeth.

Paul1405,
It is the Left, the International Socialists (or Trotskyists in the case of the NSW 'Watermelon Greens) who are the totalitarians, even down to refusing freedom of speech, for example through that noxious section 18c.

paul, most of your 'old conservatives' have a job, a house (or several) and are simply making an observation and more importantly identifying some of the reasons many of our youth today don't have a job.

Its got little to do with whether or not you think societies 'old conservatives' should 'move on' but everything to do with trying to steer young ones in a direction that removes them from the pier pressure that more often than not contributes to the fact that they make themselves less desirable to prospective employers.

Quite frankly, apart from the wasted tax payers dollars, mine included, I don't give a damn because my responsibility lies with my own two now adult children, both of which are well on their way to owning their own businesses and securing their own financial independence.

I am merely making an observation.

Its reassuring to know Young Mr Beach, is bucking the trend and is still wearing Old Mr Beach's spats and straw hat from 1927. Your derogatory comments about young people are unfounded, because they choose to be different from you, and me for that matter, you heap scorn and derision upon them.
Obviously in your ideal society taking such liberties would be outlawed, along with just about every other freedom people enjoy, and transgressors could expect to feel the full weight of the law, your law of course.
This is not about tattoos and body piercings, its about conformity and control of the individual.
I often catch public transport, and sometimes there are old men and women on board who are dirty, and stink to such a degree, you can't sit within spitting distance of them, without covering your nose. Should they be castigated for their social transgression, being non conformists and all.