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We're delaying major life events, and our retirement income system hasn't caught up

  • Written by: Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW
imageWe're having children seven years later, getting married is eight years later, buying homes nine years later, and increasingly retiring without them.Shutterstock

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