Climate change barely rates a mention in the Intergenerational Report, despite the huge potential costs. Peter Christoff says the only way to overcome this short-sightedness is to end the politics and make the review independent.
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By mid-century, Australia will have about 40,000 people aged 100 and above – well more than 300 times the 122 centenarians there were in 1975, according to the Intergenerational Report released on Thursday.
Experts question where the jobs for older Australians will come from.
By bringing previous government policy into the Intergenerational Report, Treasurer Joe Hockey has overlooked many questions Australians want answers to now.
The headline on each Intergenerational Report has focused on the fiscal calamity that might await us: but there is a more positive message.
Discouraging carbon emissions via a carbon tax could deliver the government much needed revenue.
The government wants the public to take several political messages out of the Intergenerational Report Joe Hockey is releasing on Thursday.
A brief look at intergenerational reports past shows just how difficult it is to deliver long-term reform.
The way many organisations construe old age is likely to be very different to its definition in the soon-to-be-released Intergenerational Report.
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including whether the intergenerational report can help re-establish the government’s authority…
As it prepares to release the Intergenerational Report and put together its second budget, the government is facing a perfect storm.
“Fairness” is being hijacked by Labor and Greens as a one-word slogan to cover a very narrow concept, according to Kelly O'Dwyer, parliamentary secretary to the treasurer. With the government still on…
In November 1990, then treasurer Paul Keating announced that Australia was in recession – and that it was “the recession we had to have”. Today, there are growing calls for serious, structural economic…
People tend to prefer present gratification to conserving resources for the future. This tendency is made worse by election cycles that encourage politicians to concentrate on policies that will get them…
More than a decade ago the federal treasury produced the first Intergenerational Report (IGR), warning of the challenges facing the Australian economy due to demographic change. The IGR warned that the…
In Perth last October, New York University’s Professor Nouriel Roubini issued a dire warning to the business forum of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that Australia faced the threat of a “hard…
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