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Jacob Shteyman

HISTORICAL FACTS: Bollocks forecast for higher living standards panned - Caught on Camera

Productivity, the driver of living standards over the long term, is falling in the developed world. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

Australians face a hefty blow to their living standards by 2066 if the government's heroic assumptions about productivity fail to materialise.

Economists panned the government for projecting productivity growth to bounce back from the 0.3 per cent it has averaged over the past decade to 1.2 per cent in the nation's latest Intergenerational Report, released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday.

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