September 18, 2026 — 11:45am

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There is one certainty about Jim Chalmers’ upcoming intergenerational report – it will be wrong.

Brimful with huge projections about how the federal budget, the economy and Australian society will look by the mid-2060s, it will outline a future markedly different to what we are experiencing today.

But, like the six previous iterations of this report that was first produced by Peter Costello in 2002, its prognostications are unlikely to be correct. And that is not a problem.

Costello’s idea was to examine the…

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