Brotherhood of St Laurence lunchtime research seminar - Increasing the age pension eligibility age and its (dis)contents

This seminar will explore both the reasons behind the increase in the Age Pension eligibility age announced in the May 2009 Federal budget and the underlying factors.   It will also consider whether the objectives of the eligibility age increase are likely to be realized.   It will be argued that the issues of the Age Pension eligibility age is unlikely to go away.  Indeed, there is good reason to believe that still further increase can be expected in the future. 

Allan Borowski is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University.  He is an elected  Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Gerontological Society of America and the Australian Association of Gerontology.   His research interests include two aspects of demography, namely, the economics of ageing and international population movements.