Caring for elderly parents, and your kids? Welcome to ‘Generation Sandwich’
With ageing parents and adult kids requiring support for longer many of us are finding ourselves aged 50 and being squeezed into caring for two generations of family.
With ageing parents and adult kids requiring support for longer many of us are finding ourselves aged 50 and being squeezed into caring for two generations of family.
We look into the decade ahead for the workforce, for consumers, for those seeking home ownership. Here’s everything you need to know.
Mobile phones and the internet have delivered greater connectivity, yet I’m not convinced this makes us feel happier and more secure than we did a generation ago.
The best way to consider how we might live a thousand years from now is to go back a millennia to 1025, a time that predates the Norman Conquest of Britain.
In the 21st Century, Australia’s direction has been largely shaped by global events – take the GFC and the Covid pandemic. What would a regional conflict do to the nation?
With all these developments in Australia’s retail landscape, I wonder if we haven’t lost something along the way.
Godlessness has gained ground in the 21st century, it seems. But I wonder if this isn’t a temporary shift, a tidal flow, that will change in due course.
An 80-year old today is only two lifetimes separated from the start of European settlement in Australia, which raises some interesting questions.
There will come a time when retirees die and the housing market is flooded with, to be blunt, executor’s auctions. That shift isn’t likely to impact the property market until a certain year, says Bernard Salt.
How many consultants and pollsters did a billion dollars buy Kamala Harris? Did any of these advisers (boldly, bravely) suggest that the thinking of middle America had shifted? I reckon the answer is not one.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/bernard-salt