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Aussies to Live Longer Despite More ‘Unequal’ World
The report says life expectancy will rise and the economy will be twice its current size, while the budget remains strained.
- On Monday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will release the government's second Intergenerational Report, a wide-reaching forecast of the Australian economy 40 years from now.
- Australians born in 2065/66 are expected to live longer, healthier lives, with life expectancy predicted to reach almost 90 for girls and 86 for men.
- Population growth will slow to less than 40 million in 40 years, while the economy becomes twice its current size and future government debt is slashed by half a trillion dollars compared to the 2023 report.
- Opposition Leader Angus Taylor on Sunday claimed Labor would "cook the books" and rely on rosy productivity assumptions to deliver better-than-expected budget forecasts.
- Chalmers warned that global risks are serious, yet Australia's opportunities remain endless; the Commonwealth faces a choice to "Keep up and succeed or lag and languish.
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50% Center
L 17%
C 50%
R 33%
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