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As the peak professional body for actuaries in Australia, the Actuaries Institute actively participates in key public policy discussions to build and promote public confidence in the services provided by actuaries and in the actuarial profession.

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Australia currently has about four million retirees, with another 670,000 people intending to retire in the next five years. Retirement Matters, a Dialogue Paper written by actuaries Andrew Gale and Stephen Huppert, argues that the time for Australia to reimagine retirement is now. 

Written by actuaries Dr Hugh Miller and Dr Laura Dixie, Not a Level Playing Field – People with Disability seeks to enrich the insights available from the earlier Paper by providing a deeper and more nuanced examination of inequalities for people with disability in Australia.

The latest Dialogue Paper explores the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) within the context of support for children with autism and developmental delay and outlines three measures for consideration by the NDIS Independent Review Panel ahead of its final findings in October