Australians are a prosperous and generally tolerant people and yet our big cities have never been more divided, or our regions under more strain. I still can’t think of anywhere else I’d rather live.
The fastest rising immigrant force in Australia this decade (and likely beyond) is the Indian community with its range of languages, religions, cuisine and commitment to multi-generational households.
In today’s world, in which many Australians are suffering the effects of a cost-of-living crisis, what is the hope on the horizon?
It is an issue which will surely impact the value of Australian farmland in the 2030s, if not earlier: the inevitable retirement, or death, of older farmers who refuse to sell.
There are skirmishes where American and Australian culture are fighting for supremacy, if not for survival.
Humanity has never previously been in a position of sustained, structural contraction. We must get used to the idea, and position ourselves to take advantage of it.
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.
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