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The Wakka Wakka man argued he should receive his age benefit 3 years early due to the shorter life expectancy of Indigenous men compared with their non-Indigenous counterparts.
Using life expectancy as criteria to assess whether someone was eligible for the age pension would lead to an ‘unworkable uncertainty’, a federal court has been told.