Australia is on track to have more deaths than births by the 2060s. Other countries grapple with the same problem. Are they doing better than us?
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The federal government is unambiguous about the need for more nurses, builders and electricians. But the plan to find and fund these workers is less clear.
The treasurer says there’s ‘likely to be billions of dollars extra’ in higher bills on government debt in December’s budget update.
The report counts on a lot of factors turning out for the best: AI boosting economic growth and global warming meeting the Paris goals for a start.
Jim Chalmers will today release projections from the government’s Intergenerational Report to bolster Labor’s argument against One Nation’s super proposal.
The ageing population will strengthen the trend towards a service-based economy, with the care and support sector potentially doubling over the coming four decades.
On many dimensions, Millennials aged 25-35 are better off than were Boomers, with housing and the environment the big exceptions.
Productivity was meant to be growing faster and faster. It’s growing slower and slower.
Dr Karl has been criticised for fronting adverts for a government report he turned out not to agree with. But despite his lapse in judgement, he hasn’t seriously breached his journalistic ethics.
Without affordable and secure housing that meets the needs of older Australians, the nation cannot hope to sustain the productivity that is needed to secure future prosperity.
The policy solution to the ageing population laid out in the Intergenerational Report benefits the better-off in the future over the less well-off today.
The Abbott government has followed one step forward by a couple back. After an improved performance became the media story of last week, it’s been slipping and sliding all over the place.
Linking population growth with productivity and labour participation is problematic, just one of many questionable assumptions made in the Intergenerational Report.
The 2015 Intergenerational Report underestimated the threat of climate change. An open letter from environmental and climate scientists.
If we accept that the rich should subsidise the poor, then Gen Y should be subsidising the baby boomers.
The Commonwealth appears to have its health outlays more or less under control. The problem for the states, however, is dire.
How appropriate were the fourth Intergenerational Report’s demographic assumptions? Should greater attention be paid to the potential consequences of population growth?
Forecasts released under the Charter of Budget Honesty are on the wrong time horizon and need greater transparency.
The Intergenerational Report may actually be underestimating the scale of the budgetary challenges ahead.
A discussion about what superannuation will look like in the future is essentially from the Intergenerational Report.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Health Economics, Curtin University
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Professor, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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PhD Candidate, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne CSHE, The University of Melbourne
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow in the Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne