Regional Australia: Boom, Bust or Just Misunderstood?
Every few years, we're told the same story. That regional Australia has finally cracked the code. That young people are fleeing the cities. That work-from-home has changed everything. And that cou...
3 Mar 29min
The Great Unretirement: How Boomers Are Reshaping Australia's Workforce
Today, we examine a significant demographic shift that's reshaping Australia more quietly than population growth or migration, but with far greater long-term consequences. By 2029, every baby boom...
24 Feb 31min
Can Money Really Buy Happiness? The Data Says… Yes (But Not How You Think)
Today we're dive into one of the biggest myths in modern psychology and economics -the idea that money stops increasing your happiness after a certain point. You've probably heard the line: "Happines...
17 Feb 24min
How Generation X Will Shape Australia's Housing Market in the Decade Ahead
Today we shine a spotlight on a generation that rarely asks for attention but quietly shapes enormous parts of Australia's economy and real estate landscape. I'm talking about Generation X - that coh...
10 Feb 25min
How high do we want property prices to keep rising? Who wins and who loses?
Today we ask a question almost no one in property likes to touch - not "will housing prices keep rising?" but "how expensive do we actually want housing to be?" For decades we've celebrated risin...
3 Feb 32min
The Scorecard: Which Big Demographic Calls Actually Came True?
At the end of last year, Simon Kuestenmacher published a detailed set of demographic predictions about Australia's future – covering everything from migration and ageing, to housing affordability, con...
27 Jan 37min
The Hidden Trends Reshaping Australia
In today's show we delve into a fresh set of data from the HILDA survey - one of Australia's longest-running studies tracking how real households are living, working, earning, spending, and socialisin...
20 Jan 31min
How Australia is Changing: Richer, Older, Lonelier
In today's show we delve into the latest findings from the Hilda report, exploring the significant demographic shifts in Australia. We discuss how Australians are becoming richer yet feeling poore...
13 Jan 29min
