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.
New figures show some of the better-off suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne have shed thousands of residents since the pandemic.
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.
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.
Birth rates in Australia are declining,which,given the exorbitant cost of having children,should come as no surprise.
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.
Birth rates are plunging across inner and middle suburbs as cost-of-living pressures drive families to the city’s fringe.
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.
A plunge in birth rates in parts of Melbourne is being blamed on a lack of affordable housing and other cost-of-living pressures.
This map reveals the suburbs with Sydney’s lowest fertility rates.
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.