House debates Questions without Notice

Budget: Age Pension

Tuesday, 27 May 2014 House of Representatives

Kevin Andrews

Kevin Andrews Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services

2:30 pm

I thought: what an astute and prescient observation about the demographic changes that are occurring in society. Andrew, come on over! The reality is that there is a major change in the demographic patterns in Australia. People are living much longer. When the age pension was introduced in 1907, average life expectancy was less than 60. Today it is well over 80, as the member for Canberra pointed out.

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