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Levon Ellen Blue, Associate Professor, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland

Too many Indigenous Australians die before getting to claim the age pension. We need to make retirement fairer

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If you’re a non-Indigenous Australian, when you hit the age of 67, you’ll typically have another 15 years of long, hopefully happy retirement to look forward to.

But as we’ve seen too often with our own family and friends, many Indigenous peoples don’t make it to retirement age. The median age at death for Indigenous people in Australia is still 63 years old.

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