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The report has a more political streak than these long-term documents usually do.
The Intergenerational Report projects population growth slowing from an average of 1.4% a year over the last 40 years to 0.9% a year over the coming four decades.
In a rare act of bipartisanship, an independent MP and a Liberal backbencher have proposed properly factoring in young people’s needs when drafting new policy.
While Australia must make some hard choices to pay for services in the future, increasing the goods and services tax is just too hard.
Far from finding an ‘ageing time bomb’, the report paints a picture of a society in which the ratio of working Australians to dependents is little changed, with climate change the only big concern.
The latest Intergenerational Report shows Australia less old than it was going to be, but poorer. And eventually needing to pay more tax.
The report to be released on Thursday says an increase in global temperatures of 3-4°C would cost Australia $135 billion to $423 billion.
The financial impacts of an ageing Australia aren’t particularly worrisome, but we’ve been worrying for decades.
This week on Word from The Hill, @michellegrattan and @amandadunn10 discuss the coming date for the Voice referendum, the Intergenerational report and Labor's national conference
The report, to be released in full on Thursday, puts the number of people 65 and over at about nine million by the early 2060s – from nearly 4.4 million in the 2021 census
A social insurance model would use compulsory contributions from worker salaries to cover the cost of aged care services. But it’s not a silver bullet to fix our aged-care funding crisis.
Australia’s past reports have been largely ignored big issues like housing and climate change. Ahead of the latest report’s release, here’s what we’re still missing – including giving you a say.
The Intergenerational Report puts a long lens on the nation’s future, looking at the implications of demographic changes and covering a broad range of economic and social areas
One third of the economists surveyed say Australia’s migration target should be lifted to 190,000 per year. Another third say 190,000 is not enough.
If we want the latest health care, disability care and aged care, we’ll have to be prepared to pay for it.
This generation faces wicked problems without simple, single solutions. We need to move beyond the short-term, issue du jour approach that has dominated government responses in recent decades.
A lot would need to go right for reality to turn out as good as the projections in the Treasurer’s intergenerational report.
It’s not enough to deliver what the treasurer calls “sobering news”, there are things we can do.
The report will show that by 2061 there will only be 2.7 Australians of traditional working age for each Australian over 65.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Associate, International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW, UNSW
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Democracy Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Director, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University
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Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Professor of Adolescent Health Research, The University of Melbourne