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Foreign minister set to announce major initiative at the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji today; backbench MPs join call to consider super tax reform
Good morning and thanks for joining our daily blog on the Australian news day. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll bring you our top stories from overnight before my colleague takes over.
The profound demographic shifts in Australian society are no more starkly represented than by the huge increase in dementia cases. The disease has now overtaken coronary heart disease as causing the greatest burden of illness, injury and premature death in older Australians, according to a new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Among people aged 65 years and older, dementia was responsible for almost 230,000 years of healthy life lost – up 62% since 2011.
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