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Man In Work Shed

As outrage builds over a proposal to force Australians to work until 70, experts are urging businesses to follow the example of hardware giant Bunnings and unleash the untapped labour of older workers.

Couple On Jetty

Heather Booth, Associate Investigator at CEPAR and Professor of Demography at ANU, is featured in this article by Jill Pengelley for The Advertiser (Adelaide and SA news).

Canberra Federal Budget

On 11 May, CEPAR Director John Piggott joined other experts from UNSW Business School to analyse the 2017 Federal Budget in a roundtable discussion. The discussion took place in Sydney’s CBD.
 

Population ageing data

Post-Federal Budget analysis of the government's announcement to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Content pensioners enjoying a stroll

Professor John Piggott, told interviewer Matthew Tukaki that if older workers could be engaged in employment longer their net contribution to GDP would be in the tens of billions of dollars.

John Piggott

Professor John Piggott presented at the UNSW Business School Learn @ Lunch series on the topic of population ageing.