The spectre of an ageing population has led to the government’s exhortation to repair the national economy to avert ‘intergenerational inequity’, writes Associate Professor Elizabeth Brooke, from Swinburne University's Centre for Social Impact.

This paper proposes that Australia abolishes tax concessions for superannuation and create a universal (non-means-tested) age pension. Summary As Australia’s population ages, government policies that assist retirement will become even more essential. Superannuation tax concessions and the age pension are the two key government policies that assist the ageing, but they are becoming increasingly expensive...

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Governments must continue reforms to ensure that public and private retirement income provision is socially as well as financially sustainable, according to this report. "More than one in four Australian seniors live in poverty on international measures," according to the report. "This is the fourth highest old-age poverty rate in the OECD countries and more...

Following the release of the Federal Budget, community sector organisations are increasingly concerned that gaps between income support payments are widening and there is now a four-class system of income support. There is a $147 per week gap between the top and bottom income support payments. Research by ACOSS shows a stark contrast in the...