Landmark case from Indigenous man seeking to access pension three years early hears Australia fails to account for age gap from ‘racial disadvantage’
Figures produced by his barrister, Ron Merkel KC, on Monday suggested a 65-year-old Indigenous man would live for a further 15.8 years on average, compared to 19 years for a non-Indigenous man.
“The relief we’re seeking is to remove historical racial disadvantage and discrimination, to correct the wrongs of the past against Indigenous people … Those wrongs have produced a gap in life expectancy which is closely connected to race.”Uncle Dennis, a Queensland-born Wakka Wakka man who has requested that his surname be withheld, had previously lodged a claim to receive the pension but it was rejected because he had not reached the pension age, now 67.
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