☕️ What Australia could look like in 2066

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Three women were allegedly murdered by male relatives within 10 hours in NSW over the weekend, as pressure grows on authorities to take action on violence against women.

Federal Minister for Women Katy Gallagher said: “There is no easy solution. If there was one, we would have already put it in place.”

The spate of alleged domestic violence-related murders comes as new rental reforms for victim-survivors came into effect on Monday in NSW.

Late on Saturday morning, a 23-year-old woman was stabbed at a home in Kooringal, in Wagga Wagga, west of Canberra. The woman died at the scene.

Later that day, a 31-year-old man was charged with the murder of his partner and will stay in custody until 18 November.

In a separate case on Saturday, a 90-year-old woman was stabbed at a home in Sydney’s Bondi Beach. She died at the scene, and a 47-year-old man known to her was later charged with domestic violence-related murder.

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna said on Monday the man is believed to be the woman’s grandson.

That night, also in a separate case, a 37-year-old man allegedly entered a property in Mole River, about 40 minutes west of Tenterfield in NSW’s New England region, where police allege he assaulted a 74-year-old man.

Police later found the body of a 70-year-old woman at a neighbouring property, which had been partially damaged by fire.

The 37-year-old man was charged with murder, with NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna saying the man and the woman are believed to be mother and son.

Meanwhile, a child has died and two of his siblings are in a critical but stable condition after they were allegedly stabbed by their mother in the Blue Mountains on Sunday.

Their mother, who is in her 40s, is also critically injured in hospital and has been identified by police as the sole suspect in the alleged attack.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said: “We can’t become numb to the pain or the violence that we see.”

“We still need to take action and commit ourselves across government agencies, law reform, our prisons, NSW Police and education.”

Speaking to ABC Radio Sydney, NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane said: “Something is broken and we’re failing women in our state and our country.”

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Reporting by Emily Donohoe.

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The Federal Government released a report today projecting how Australia will look in 2066.

It predicts Australians will live longer, have fewer children and work later into life, and the population and economy will grow more slowly than in previous decades.

AI and the energy transition are expected to change Australia’s economy and jobs.

Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson said the long-term outlook of the report “gives a big F to the Albanese Government and its economic model”.

The Federal Treasury publishes the Intergenerational Report (IGR) every few years.

The report projects what Australia’s economy will look like over the next 40 years.

The purpose is to examine the long-term sustainability of current policies, and how society-wide trends may affect the economy and the budget.

The IGR released today is the seventh edition of the report, with the previous report released in 2023.

Compared to 2026, in 2066:

In this context, intergenerational equity is the idea of fairness in how the costs and benefits of government policies are shared between people born in different generations.

Long-term demographic trends and economic pressures have worsened intergenerational equity, and Treasury expects that without further reforms, these pressures will intensify over the next 40 years.

Australians born in the 1980s and 1990s have not seen significant generational gains to their net worths, and home ownership rates among young Australians have declined.

According to the IGR, without reforms to housing and the tax system, an ageing population will intensify pressures on intergenerational equity. The number of Australians aged over 85 is expected to triple by 2066.

An older population puts pressure on the Government in several ways. Many older people are in the aged care system, which the Federal Government funds.

One of the Government’s main sources of income is personal income tax. At the same time as more funding is needed for aged care, older people may move out of work and onto living on their super and the pension, changing Australia’s tax income and economy.

That being said, the IGR shows Australians are working later in life compared to previous generations, and Treasury expects this trend to continue.

On housing, the Government says the changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax introduced in the last Federal Budget will add 75,000 owner-occupiers over the next decade.

Releasing the report, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said: “Australians are expected to live longer, healthier lives, with higher living standards and more secure retirements.”

“Concerns about intergenerational inequality have deepened, particularly when it comes to housing, and democracies are being disrupted,” he added.

Addressing the media, Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson noted the report’s projections of “higher inflation, lower living standards, the destruction of wealth and wages, a potential compounding of debt”.

Wilson also believed the assumptions used in the IGR were not achievable: “What we have is a report from the Albanese Government that seeks to cook the books to justify their economic model.”

Reporting by Adam Wan.

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The World Health Organisation has confirmed two countries, Chile and Bhutan, have this month eliminated the spread of rabies from dogs to humans. Chile is the first country in South America to eliminate this kind of transmission of the disease, which the WHO said was the result of more than 50 years of effort since the last confirmed case of a dog giving it to a human in 1972. Bhutan, a tiny nation north-east of India, is the first nation in South East Asia to stop the spread from dogs to humans.

Reporting by Lucy Tassell.

Happy Fat Bear Week!

If you’re unfamiliar, Fat Bear Week is an online poll/annual celebration of the brown bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. Voters can have their say on the bear they think worked hardest over the summer to ‘fatten up’ for their winter hibernation.

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Reporting by Lucy Tassell.