SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 17-- The Insurance Council of Australia issued the following news release:. The Insurance Council of Australia has today welcomed new analysis and recommendations from the ...

Measured using the well-accepted Gini methodology, the actuaries calculated Australia’s Gini coefficient for individuals to be 0.46 (where zero refers to low inequality and one is high inequality).

The Actuaries Institute’s analysis arrives at a lower excess mortality for the first eight months of 13 per cent, or an additional 15,400 deaths, and 10 per cent in August, or 1700 deaths.