List of figures and tables

Introduction

PART 1: RELATIONSHIPS

Man drought
The big dry
Man drought Stage 3a restrictions
The Fella Filter
Chances for love in a capital city
Hot Deflation Index
Bachelor hot spots
The Dater Base

Love and other curious phenomena
Why wedding rings?
Relationship ‘car’ theory
Meet the Mingles
Now meet the OFFALs
When love turns sour

Part 2: GENERATIONS

Across the generations
Meet the Frugals
The pre-boomers brigade
Are baby boomers perfect?
Cynical Generation X
Generation-Y guys
The Millennium Generation
SKI Generation
Boomer Bank
Blame it on the baby boomers

Generation Y gets a separate chapter
Generation Y and the rise of modern singledom
Revolting Generation Y
‘Baby Boomer 101’ for Generation Y
Sick of Ys
Generation Y fights back
Generation Y: technology’s gatekeepers
The disappointed generation

PART 3: WORK AND HOME

Work
How the café killed the tea room
Corporate pop words
Business wankers
The pace of work
Shift in office protocols
The fearlessness of Generation Y
How to hang on to Generation Y
The mentor myth
Thanks for popping into work today
Boomer command to Gen Y
Gen Y’s error is a boomer problem
Time to disconnect

Home and suburb
The People’s Republic of Bernardistan
Dammed if we do
Suburban exposure
Rise of the urban village
The new concept of neighbourhood
Baby-boomer houses
Suitors make a beeline for the bedroom
Baby-boomer gardens
Backyard bliss
Seachange and treechange
The Australian Kiwi
Dream home

PART 4: LIFE AND TIMES

New values, new thinking
The F-word
Spunky vs sassy
Smoking’s demise
The great green shopping bag conspiracy
The mateship delusion
The obitchery principle
Redefining middle age
Frelderlie discrimination
Time’s astronauts
Fashion shift
Culture shift
Demographics Tonight
Belief’s 20th century rise and fall
Growing market for godlessness
Bring on Armageddon

Future
Future tense
The Facebook sleeper
Future family
The demise of the baby boomersaurus
Demographic faultlines
Don’t mention the ‘r’ word
Market for doom and gloom
Beyond the white picket fence

Appendix A: The great Australian singles audit
Appendix B: The Dater Base
Selected bibliography
Index