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Kathryn Magann

Businesses urged to step up for disability inequality

Australians living with a disability have far less disposable income, the study finds. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

Businesses have been urged to help close the gap between disabled and non-disabled Australians after a new report highlighted a sobering disparity in health and economic outcomes.

Australians living with a disability are three times more likely to die by suicide than their non-disabled peers, the Actuaries Institute paper found.

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