The 3 intergenerational challenges Chalmers’ roundtable must fix
If the government wants true long-term productivity gains, it can look to three areas that happen to be where the intergenerational compact is most broken.
Productivity is a long game, especially when viewed through an intergenerational lens. But the government’s upcoming productivity roundtable risks being yet another festival of short-term electoral thinking.
Younger Australians – from those entering the prime of their working life to those preparing to enter the workforce – bear the burdens of poor decisions. Even small differences in productivity growth rates can compound into big differences in living standards over time.
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Trisha Jha is a research fellow in the education program at the Centre for Independent Studies.
