Jim Chalmers is not planning a fertility police squad in next week’s budget,but his comments on the birth rate go to an issue the world needs to debate.
Australians are having fewer children with the fertility rate tumbling. The treasurer says people should think about having more kids.
“A big challenge for us is to make sure we continue to diversify our economy to ensure we have a strong revenue base in the future,” Treasurer Rita Saffioti said.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner says a housing shortage is holding Brisbane back,after a major consultancy report listed the city’s strengths and future prospects.
Perth’s local born population is shrinking. Use our interactive graphic to find out how your suburb is doing.
Perth has recorded the largest increase in population over the past 20 years in Australia,while also clocking the highest portion of detached houses of any capital.
Sydney’s population is booming thanks to migration,but deaths are outnumbering births in a growing share of mainly wealthy suburbs.
This demographic was minuscule in WA in 1993. You never saw them around – just in your community paper from time to time. But their number has since exploded.
It has become easy for landlords and real estate agents to point to the recently expanded land tax as a reason for spiking rents. But it’s more complicated.
It is the sprawling suburbs on Perth’s eastern fringe accommodating the lion’s share of the city’s post-COVID population boom. Here are the top 20.
Italy has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe except for one province that has emerged as a parallel procreation universe.