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Australia is one of the world's best places to retire, or is it?

Written by Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW

Happiness in retirement isn't the same for everyone.Tom Carmony/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Australia is ranked in the top third of countries in almost all indices measuring the best countries to retire, according to our analysis of nine separate ageing and retirement indices.

The problem is, experts contriving such indices can’t agree about which...

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