These greying country towns are the canary in the coal mine for the aged-care crisis
Opinion
Ageing

These greying country towns are the canary in the coal mine for the aged-care crisis

In regional Australia,more than a third of residents are aged over 55. If only the government was doing something about this growing demographic crisis.

  • byShane Wright

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Well-heeled on the move from Sydney and Melbourne

Well-heeled on the move from Sydney and Melbourne

New figures show some of the better-off suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne have shed thousands of residents since the pandemic.

  • byShane Wright
Melbourne’s transformation is so rapid that it’s shocking

Melbourne’s transformation is so rapid that it’s shocking

Within 30 years,Melbourne will have to house 8 million people. Every Victorian should know that number now,when we need to start planning for it.

  • byShaun Carney
In their own words:Why Perth people aren’t having more babies

In their own words:Why Perth people aren’t having more babies

Young people are not popping out babies like their parents once routinely did. What’s happened to the desire to be a mum or a dad? We hit the streets to find out.

  • byMark Naglazas
Can you put a price on having kids? For many,the answer is yes
Opinion
Kids&money

Can you put a price on having kids? For many,the answer is yes

Birth rates in Australia are declining,which,given the exorbitant cost of having children,should come as no surprise.

  • byVictoria Devine
Parts of Japan ‘likely to vanish’ as population shrinks

Parts of Japan ‘likely to vanish’ as population shrinks

Japan’s population has recorded its biggest single-year decrease in history,falling by 861,000 people,as the government grapples with measures to reverse the trend.

  • byLisa Visentin
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Baby drought grips Brisbane as a ‘great contraceptive’ emerges

Baby drought grips Brisbane as a ‘great contraceptive’ emerges

Birth rates are plunging across inner and middle suburbs as cost-of-living pressures drive families to the city’s fringe.

  • byMarissa Calligeros,Josh Gordon andSean Parnell
Baby recession grips Perth as births drop to lowest level in two decades

Baby recession grips Perth as births drop to lowest level in two decades

Perth’s birth rate is the lowest it’s been since 2006,and it has not seen such a sharp fall in births since the contraceptive pill was introduced in the 1970s.

  • bySarah Brookes
Melbourne in the grip of baby drought as rent becomes ‘a great contraceptive’

Melbourne in the grip of baby drought as rent becomes ‘a great contraceptive’

A plunge in birth rates in parts of Melbourne is being blamed on a lack of affordable housing and other cost-of-living pressures.

  • byJosh Gordon
Sydney’s ‘baby recession’:Where births have plunged most

Sydney’s ‘baby recession’:Where births have plunged most

This map reveals the suburbs with Sydney’s lowest fertility rates.

  • byMatt Wade
Sold for $150k more than listed:The Girrawheen home with 90 groups through at first home open

Sold for $150k more than listed:The Girrawheen home with 90 groups through at first home open

A growing number of West Aussies can’t find a rental,but also can’t afford to buy a home – or even if they can,can’t find a place to buy.

  • bySarah Brookes