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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.
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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’. Every time an Intergenerational Report (IGR) comes out, as one did in June this year, we read statist...