A years-old meme comparing the poverty rate for Australians aged over 65 to rates in other OECD countries has resurfaced, as cost of living concerns dominate federal election coverage. But its data is out-of-date, and its methodology is lacking.
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A years-old meme comparing the poverty rate for Australians aged over 65 to rates in other OECD countries has resurfaced, as cost of living concerns dominate federal election coverage. With all 38 nations included, Australia ranks 7th, trailing by nearly 20 percentage points top-ranked South Korea, where 43.4 per cent of the population aged 65 and over are classified as experiencing relative income poverty.
According to the Grattan researchers, taking the benefits of home ownership into account halved the proportion of older Australians considered to be in poverty.Queensland's Chief Health Officer John Gerrard has been misrepresented in a video circulating online. "We've reported about those earlier on, that's been reported elsewhere in Australia, around the world, where it's myocarditis."
When the conflict erupted, Churanova and her children fled Kyiv and headed to a smaller city in the nation's west where she devotes herself to "debunking Russian bullshit".
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