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Planners can fix their poor public image

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... their own submissions to the many government and Parliamentary inquiries now underway. The government's Intergenerational Report is a tremendous opportunity for doing this, she said. "The biggest message you can give them is how you want to work with ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... exhausted their thoughts on how it could encourage more consumers to save. "Given the findings of the Intergenerational Report (IGR), you can't manage an economy with an ageing population without increasing [personal] savings seriously... specially because ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Fiscal pressures due to Australia's ageing population outlined in the latest Intergenerational Report strengthen the case for health reform, tax reform, national productivity growth targets and the removal of the compulsory retirement age. Yesterday ...

Population explosion to reshape wealth and pension

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... for Population Ageing Research, the Treasurer said the government plans to release the much-anticipated Intergenerational Report, the third one, before the 2010-11 Budget. "The larger projected population poses a whole raft of policy challenges and opportunities ...

Demography is destiny: IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello has released the updated Intergenerational Report (IGR) showing that while the impact of population ageing is Australia's biggest policy challenge, incorporating its imperatives into Government policy can pay big dividends later ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... ageing and its implications is Australia's central long-term policy challenge requiring an update to the Intergenerational Report, said Treasurer Peter Costello. "The central long-term problem for the Australian economy is that our population is ageing. ...

Budget super changes not for low budgets

... reduced, and eventually abolished," she said. Referring to how the government can achieve the aims of the "Intergenerational Report" commissioned two years ago now, Corboy explained, "If you channel tax cuts by way of a 1 per cent reduction in the contributions ...

Cutting super benefit taxes affordable: IAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
... the IAA analysis confirms that Costello's surprise Budget announcement is much more consistent with the Intergenerational Report analysis than most critics acknowledged and will put more pressure on the ALP to support the proposals.

Living standards predicted to fall

... week by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. The report claimed that the government's Intergenerational Report of 2002 covered only the cost to Federal Government and missed three quarters of the total cost that will be felt as a result ...

Actuary urges policies to deal with inter-generational pressures

... government and industry to refine and development policy to deal with these issues. "The government's Intergenerational Report has already alerted us to the dramatically increased impact of our ageing population on health financing and retirement planning ...