Pension compromise ‘worthy’
SOCIAL Services Minister Scott Morrison has declined to say how crossbench senators have responded to his compromise on pensions.
Intergenerational Report
Future of tax reform in shifting world
GLOBAL competition for labour and capital will become ever more intense.
Joe’s grey future in rural NSW
THESE regional NSW retirees are living in a demographic time machine: the future seen in Joe Hockey’s intergenerational report.
Means test would prevent ‘underclass’
THE Abbott government faces calls to tighten the rules for the Age Pension means test rather than pegging payments to inflation.
‘Definitely room’ to tighten pension
A COUPLE can enjoy a ‘comfortable retirement’, earn more than $58,000 a year and still claim a reasonable part pension.
Flexibility for workforce is vital
THE Intergenerational Report points to people working more years. The market must adjust.
Tax hikes are a safe bet
IN the past, outcomes have been worse than the IGRs suggested.
Value of dole to plunge over 40 years
THE Intergenerational Report has sharpened the argument to review the unemployment benefit, showing it would plunge in value in the next 40 years.
Fertility rate stuck at 1.9 per woman
AUSTRALIA’s fertility rate is expected to stay at 1.9 births per woman across the next 40 years.
Dancing teen ready, 13 years on
PAMELA Barnes, now a budding ballerina, faces a much altered political and social landscape since the 2002 Intergenerational Report’s snapshot.
PM takes a reality check
TONY Abbott has rebounded from his ‘near-death’ experience and is listening.
PM shifts on age pension time bomb
THE government has shifted on controversial pension reforms to consider the need for a sunset clause to soften the changes.
Rate cuts failing to bite: RBA
INTEREST rate cuts are losing the ability to stimulate the economy, the Reserve Bank has warned.
Labor also has questions to answer
LABOR’S response to the latest Intergenerational Report on Australia’s demographic and economic future is pathetic.
Tweaks, time frame test credulity
THE idea of producing scenarios sounds good, but the basis of these scenarios in the report is very curious.
A ‘disgraceful political document’
LABOR has branded the Intergenerational Report a “disgraceful political document” calculated to help sell the Coalition’s “unfair” agenda.
Workplace reform key to costs
BUSINESS leaders have urged reform of tax and workplace relations to curb threats to the nation’s prosperity as the population ages.
Education spending expected to flatline
EDUCATION spending will flatline over the next 40 years under current policy settings.
Grey army marches back to work
JOYLEEN Thomas’s career began at 42, after she spent two decades out of the paid workforce to raise her family.
Grey cloud on nation’s horizon
LIVING standards are under threat from faltering growth that will deprive the next generation of soaring incomes.
Here’s to a long life for Frankie
NEWBORN Frankie Rabenda will be part of an Australia more supportive of women in the workforce than it is now.
Driverless cars set to steer tech boom
TECHNOLOGY will unleash economic benefits if Australia embraces the volatility of the future, Joe Hockey said yesterday.
Basis for cuts undermined: ALP
PROJECTIONS showing federal spending on welfare payments falling over the next decade has sparked a renewed row on budget cuts.
A chance to open up the debate
THE Intergenerational Report is a relentless argument for new spending saves to achieve the overall impact of the 2014 budget.
Cuts ‘will negate cost of ageing’
JOE Hockey is counting on cuts to pensions, schools and health outlays to neutralise the cost of an ageing population.
Deficit may dwarf Rudd excess
THE budget deficit will rise to almost 6 per cent of GDP by 2054 if the government gives up on its budget savings.
Worlds come together in expanding sector
THERE is no one face of older Australia but 83-year-old William Watson comes close.
Hockey turns to Sunny Joe
JOE Hockey has pumped some air into his tyres for his new sales job.
Rising run of income taxes
WORKERS can forget personal income tax cuts for the next six years and look forward to relentless annual tax increases for the next 40 years.
It’s really going to be worse
THE government’s Intergenerational Report’s highly optimistic economic assumptions mean the outcomes are likely to be worse.
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