There is a widening gap in Australia between the life expectancy of the rich and the poor. On some figures it is as much as 10 years. Mike Seccombe on the death toll of inequality.

Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe.

Background reading: 

The fatal cost of Australia’s rising inequality in The Saturday Paper. 

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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