Contrary to popular opinion the Australian heartland of Baby Boomers has no intention of doing a bit of a seachange.  That’s just one of the findings of the Monash Baby Boomer Study completed over the last 12 months.

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FORGET the Fockers — meet the Nettels.  Don’t know the Nettels?  They’re the newest, the edgiest, the hippest life form to emerge from the nation’s primal demographic soup.

Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life, or NETTEL, refers to the rising pool of households headed by two high-income-earning, full-time-working parents with dependent children up to the age of 24. (continue reading…)

I am not at all surprised by the Federal Government’s decision to ratchet up the age at which Australians become eligible for the Age Pension.  Several Western European nations have already done the same thing.  In the UK for example a decision was taken earlier this decade to progressively push out pension age to 68.

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We might be nine years into the new century but I have finally decided to join the information age by running my own blog. 

I wanted an outlet where I could conduct a public debate about rising demographic issues.  And, yes, demographic issues do rise and fall.  Are consumer values changing as a consequence of the GFC?  What will be the defining characteristics of Generation Z?  What is the (population) carrying capacity of the Australian continent?
But the purpose of The Blog is more than this.
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