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.
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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).
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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.
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Post-Federal Budget analysis of the government's announcement to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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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.
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Professor John Piggott presented at the UNSW Business School Learn @ Lunch series on the topic of population ageing.
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John Piggott, CEPAR Director, comments in the Australian Financial Review: “GDP boost can come from better informed workers”.
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Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow at CEPAR, chats to Kayley Harris and Nick Bennett on The Daily Drive about whether or not older Australians are worse off than in other countries.
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Three CEPAR researchers have been awarded AUD 50,000 (USD 37,500) to conduct a new online survey looking at Chinese preferences for long-term aged care and how it will be paid.