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The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report on the cost of Australia’s aging population.

It makes for dire reading. Part of the overview is below, but in short

In real dollar terms, this equates to an annual cost to the budget of around $36 billion by 2028–29. This is larger than the projected cost of Medicare in that same year.”

And it ends.

Main takeaways?

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