A Victorian legal challenge aims to lower the eligibility for the age pension for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and the Human Rights Law Centre argue, given the gap in life expectancy it is inequitable and discriminatory to hold both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to the same retirement age.
The case is led by Dennis, a 64-year-old Wakka Wakka man raised on the Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland