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I am driving late at night; a classic rock station plays along in the background. On comes Jimmy Barnes with Working Class Man. It never occurred to me to look at a piece of music through the demographic lens.

Half of us will live past the age of 85. Such an imminent bulge in the upper reaches of the population pyramid also requires preparation

Because migration and housing policies operate independently of each other, Australia is ramping up migration without adequate housing stock.

The future is annoyingly hard to predict, but today we will be thinking hard about just how innovative Australia might be a decade from now

Why are we experiencing the current workforce skills shortage? The simple answer is a straightforward matter of demographics

In the very West of Germany lies Luetzerath. It’s an obscure and tiny settlement. Nobody ever cared about it – until recently that is.

How could a self-interested politician use ABS Census data to pick which policies to support and which cohort’s problems to ignore

Australia will reshape over the next decade to become bigger and older, which will have implications for the entire population.

We will start the year with a concept so bizarre, outrageous one might say: praising politicians for things they’ve done in 2022.

During the early stages of the pandemic we experienced negative net overseas migration for the first time since World War II in 2020/21.

As the cost of living keeps rising, more Australian people are forced to grab a second job just to get by.