Andrew Dickens: We need to do something about the retirement age

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 12, 2026 · 2m · transcript

With National finally releasing its fiscal policy, it’s easy to generalise the plan as more of the same.

The only difference from Labour is that they are in love with pay equity, which comes at a huge cost and leaves the whole balancing act with very little wriggle room.

But the enormous ogre under the bridge is the rapidly expanding cost of Superannuation.

How long are we going to talk in circles about this?

ACT has said lets raise it to 67. That’s not crazy.

In Australia, Denmark, Iceland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, and Norway it’s 67. In the UK it’s 66, but it's…