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Simon KuestenmacherThe Australian |
Last week’s column discussed the growing number of young men aged 15 to 24 years who are not in employment or full-time education. I made the claim...
Around the developed world, data shows that young men and women increasingly diverge in their political ideologies. Young men are much more...
A general rule in forecasting says that regulation follows innovation. Outside of medicine, we are first exposed to innovations in a very pure and...
In two German states, both in the former communist eastern part of Germany, the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party won historic amounts of...
Three weeks ago, the NSW Government called its staff to return to the office (RTO) at scale. Many public servants hate the idea as they don’t want...
It sounds pretty simple. You do good things for others and as a result get to feel good yourself. Everyone is a winner. End of column. Well, not so...
Three weeks ago, the NSW Government called its staff to return to the office (RTO) at scale. Many public servants hate the idea as they don’t want...
New Zealand and Australia are close friends. Citizens of one country can work without major restrictions in the other country. The visa schemes are in...
Australia has slipped dramatically in international rankings measuring innovation and economic complexity over the past couple of decades. The Atlas...
Spoiler alert – we are all going to die. However, we push the inevitability of death deep into our subconscious unless we know someone with severe...
Some jobs come and go as technology changes, while other jobs are always around in some form. Here, we shall explore which jobs are linked to...
The shape of our population profile shapes how we grow up, how we think about our future, and our role in society. This chart explains in broad brush...
Last week, I shared my excitement about the new global population data published by the UN Population Division. This week we will explore the data a...
In five years even the youngest Baby Boomer will be of retirement age. They will not all be retired, some will still hang around on company boards,...
Every two years the United Nations Population Division in New York revises its World Population Prospect dataset (UN WPP 2024). Whenever you see a...
Local government is neither the most glamorous employment opportunity, nor are workers showered in money. Only a small share (1.4 per cent) of all...
In five years even the youngest Baby Boomer will be of retirement age. They will not all be retired, some will still hang around on company boards,...
Local government is neither the most glamorous employment opportunity nor are workers showered in money. Only a small share (1.4 per cent) of all...
The US-based consultancy Demographia published its 20th annual International Housing Affordability Report measuring the affordability of 94...
Around the country the same intergenerational conflict is playing out daily, and it is driving the young and the old mad in equal measure. Young...
At one point in history coal was the cleaner, less polluting alternative source of energy. Burning coal to heat homes and to cook was much less...
Around the country the same intergenerational conflict is playing out daily, and it is driving the young and the old mad in equal measure. Young...
You’d be excused if you were nervous about our national reliance on trade with China. There is plenty of news that should make you worry about the...
In a recent column I introduced the idea of the retirement cliff, which detailed the jobs that would lose the most workers to retirement in the next...
What do Steven Miles, the Labor Premier of Queensland, and Peter Dutton, the Liberal federal Opposition Leader, have in common? They both very much...
Last week we discussed just how big the demand for aged care will be in the coming decades. More than half of all people aged 85 will need some...
What do Steven Miles, the Labor Premier of Queensland, and Peter Dutton, the Liberal federal Opposition Leader, have in common? They both very much...
Regular readers of this column will know me to be very optimistic about the future of Australia. There are, however, a few things I am pessimistic...
Regular readers of this column will know me to be very optimistic about the future of Australia. There are, however, a few things I am pessimistic...
Are we on the right track as a nation? How do we even tackle such an issue? We must ignore things that are outside of our control and test if our...
Australian manufacturing was once guarded by protectionist tariffs that ensured imported goods were so expensive that locally produced goods could...
Last year I published a column about the dramatic teacher shortage in Australia. As I looked at more education data in the past year, my worries...
Last week I argued that any plausible Australian government will continue the current high migration approach. Today we will explore the basic makeup...
Today we explore the topic of migration. In fact, we will end migration altogether today. We explore an Australia ten years from now where we have...
In a previous column I discussed the prolonged skills shortage that Australia is facing in the coming decade and argued that this alone will guarantee...
Over the Christmas break I read outstanding biographies of the great thinkers Humboldt , Goethe , and Oppenheimer . As I was reading, I realised...
The last week of parental leave for your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is about to come to an end. Today I’m showing you one of my favourite maps...
–Your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is still on parental leave for another three weeks. Instead of a big data driven column I’m showing you...
Your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is still on parental leave for another four weeks. So instead of my weekly data-driven column I am going to...
Your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is still on parental leave for another five weeks. Instead of my weekly data-driven column I am going to share...
Your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is on parental leave for the next six weeks. So instead of a weekly data-driven column, I am going to share some...
Your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is on parental leave for the next eight weeks. So instead of a weekly data-driven column I am going to share...