Intergenerational Reports News Today

Unemployment and related payments for working-age people were given a welcome boost in last year’s budget. But they remain well below pensions, and far from adequate.

Ever since Kevin Rudd was shouted down for believing in a “big Australia”, no politician has wanted responsibility for long-term migration management.

Small businesses are positioned to fuel Australia's future productivity growth for the next four decades, according to the COSBOA.

Report paints a bleak picture of how Australia - and NZ - wil cope with aging populations.

SURVEY SAYS: National Seniors Australia chief executive Professor John McCallum. THE defining song of the 1960s younger generation, The Who’s ‘My Generation’, starts with ‘People try to put us down!’. I wonder what The Who’s lead singer, Sir Roger Daltrey, makes of his younger self today, singing the end line “I hope I die before I get old”. He’s now 77. Sadly, during the pandemic, where young and older have suffered most, this generational friction is being ‘talked up’. E...