Ryan Bridge: Paying for our ageing population

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 25, 2025 · 2m · transcript

It's obvious to anyone paying attention that we don't have enough young people working to support the cost of health and Super for the elderly.

This problem is going to get much worse in the coming decades.

All this is spelled out in a Treasury report, which Thomas Coughlin published in the Herald today.

This is not new. We've known this for a long time.

Future governments will either have to take a sledgehammer to spending on health or raise the age of Super.

The obvious answer is to raise the age of Super. It'll happen eventually, of course, just not while Winston's around.

But the other…