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Simon KuestenmacherThe Australian |
Last week I gave you some alarming forecasts for the coming year, this week there’s a little more good news thrown into the mix. For part two of my...
This is the time of the year to publish the most dangerous type of columns – predictions for the coming year. I shall not be holding back and only...
Last week we explored what type of vehicles Australians are driving and learned that our cars have gotten bigger. It’s not just that we drive...
The Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) publishes a sort of census of the road vehicles registered in Australia....
As a demographer, I think long term. Imagining what the world looks like a decade from now is standard, but thinking in generations is also normal...
I made the argument in previous columns that Australia is running out of workers; that the current skills shortage will persist (even under a...
Our resident Stats Guy looks at the rise of voters picking independents over the two major parties at past federal elections. For decades now, the...
At a recent event I was asked: What was the most common job in Australia? An easy question. Sales assistants are by far the most common job. The...
As a demographer, I think long term. Imagining what the world looks like a decade from now is standard, but thinking in generations is also normal...
At a recent event I was asked: What was the most common job in Australia? An easy question. Sales assistants are by far the most common job. The...
For decades now, the Australian Election Study (AES) has interviewed voters after each federal election. Some survey questions have been asked...
The Australian birth rate has reached a historic low. OK, technically we are referring to the total fertility rate (TFR), but in the public...
As a public speaker and demographic consultant, I speak to dozens of people in Australia every week about the state of the economy and the general...
Last week’s column discussed the growing number of young men aged 15 to 24 years who are not in employment or full-time education. I made the claim...
Around the developed world, data shows that young men and women increasingly diverge in their political ideologies. Young men are much more...
A general rule in forecasting says that regulation follows innovation. Outside of medicine, we are first exposed to innovations in a very pure and...
In two German states, both in the former communist eastern part of Germany, the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party won historic amounts...
Three weeks ago, the NSW Government called its staff to return to the office (RTO) at scale. Many public servants hate the idea as they don’t want...
Three weeks ago, the NSW Government called its staff to return to the office (RTO) at scale. Many public servants hate the idea as they don’t want...
New Zealand and Australia are close friends. Citizens of one country can work without major restrictions in the other country. The visa schemes are...
Australia has slipped dramatically in international rankings measuring innovation and economic complexity over the past couple of decades. The...
Spoiler alert – we are all going to die. However, we push the inevitability of death deep into our subconscious unless we know someone with severe...
Some jobs come and go as technology changes, while other jobs are always around in some form. Here, we shall explore which jobs are linked to...
The shape of our population profile shapes how we grow up, how we think about our future, and our role in society. This chart explains in broad...