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The superannuation industry loves to scare Australians into believing they will retire poor and will have to work until they die. Doing so helps the industry push their agenda of lifting the compulsory superannuation guarantee (SG) so as to boost the amount of funds under management and fee revenue.
The latest example of this brainwashing comes from the “widely-respected” Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), published without question from
The Australian’s personal finance writer, Anthony Keane:
Rising numbers of Australians face the brutal prospect of working until they die if they want a comfortable lifestyle beyond retirement age.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner recently highlighted an overarching challenge for the territory, and arguably for all of northern Australia to break the social and economic cycles of severe disadvantage that perpetuate problems for generations.
As with many entrenched cycles of disadvantage, it’s easy to dream up policy solutions that rely on bottomless government coffers, and to call for cross-portfolio responses.
Creating stable, meaningful economic opportunities for northern Australian youth would surely reduce crime rates, and that’s rightly an agenda of the NT and Queensland governments. But it will take time to implement and to produce results. And for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living in remote communities, economic opportunities are often not sustainable if they prevent them living on Country.
Report Calls for Fresh Approach to Indigenous Suicide Crisis
Living in safe and clean environments, having access to modern services that individuals find personally meaningful, possessing the necessary skills to function in the 21st century, developing a robust sense of self-worth, engaging in personally meaningful activities, and practising personal responsibility.
These are the recommendations of a new Centre for Independent Studies report by Indigenous researcher Anthony Dillon, Ph.D, to address the crisis of high suicide rates among Indigenous Australians.
Dillon’s recommendations take what he calls a strengths-based approach that assumes that people mostly do okay when both the aforementioned external and internal conditions are right. “As thousands of Indigenous Australians prove every day,” he said.
One could ask the question: how did the financial system got us into such a mess? First one has to look at the value of anything and nothing… On average:
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It may be a familiar statistic, but it is still shocking and unacceptable. In Australia, almost every week a woman dies at the hands of her partner or ex-partner.
In a much-anticipated three-part SBS documentary, See What You Made Me Do, investigative journalist Jess Hill exposes the glaring questions our nation must address if we are to keep women safe.
Why does he do it? And how can we stop it?
For the first time, Hill’s documentary explores the complexity of family violence in visceral detail, from understanding how coercive control works, to the failure of policing and courts, and families’ gut-wrenching stories of how daughters, grandchildren, mothers or friends were murdered by their partner.