AMP/ NATSEM Income and Wealth Report 7 looks at the savings and debts of people aged 50-69 - those about to retire and those just retired - to try and identify what happens to their superannuation and why it is not providing them with more income in retirement. There is a popular misconception that, on...

The costs associated with an ageing population in Australia are putting increasing pressure on the fiscal resources of the government. This pressure will intensify as the proportion of elderly doubles over the next few decades. Under this increasing fiscal pressure, the government will be increasingly looking to individuals to provide for themselves.

It is generally accepted that there are significant regional differences in income distribution in Australia. This paper examines the extent of these differences in the working population and in retirement. Differences in income distributions are analysed according to state or territory, remoteness and age. The results show that in the 65 years and over group...

The study found that the poor used public hospitals more than the rich, however for private hospitals this pattern was reversed - with patients in the poorest socioeconomic group having a 19 per cent lower hospitalisation rate than patients in the richest such group. Other findings were that, despite little change in the utilisation of...

Geoscience Australia and NATSEM have recently collaborated to produce experimental estimates of the geographic distribution of vulnerability to a natural hazard. This paper describes the method used in applying synthetic estimation to quantifying vulnerability and reports on the results of the application.