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Bernard Salt is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading social commentators by business, the media and the broader community. He is the Managing Director of The Demographics Group, and he writes weekly columns for The Australian that deal with social, generational and demographic matters.

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commentaryThe Weekend Australian Magazine

TOPSHOT - This handout picture released on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Interior ministry on March 1, 2022 show the smoke after a missile attack targeting the Ukrainian capitalâs television centre in Kyiv. (Photo by UKRAINIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY PRESS SERVICES / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Ukraine’s secret weapon is an autocrats’ nightmare

Ukrainians have recorded the brutality of Russia’s offensive — and achieved a glorious moral victory in the process.

Bernard Salt

DEMOGRAPHICSProperty

Urban growth encourages start-ups to go gangbusters

Record numbers of new businesses have emerged, but can they scale up?

Bernard Salt

commentaryThe Weekend Australian Magazine

CORONAVIRUS: Working home concept â€“ beautiful woman works for a computer from a home with a laptop as a freelancer

A control-alt-delete moment in our lives

Australians will no longer be tied to a lifestyle that offers no reprieve for the young and the young-at-heart in their search for a better way of life.

Bernard Salt

DEMOGRAPHICSProperty

Skills shortages threaten to hobble the Australian recovery, and the future.

Skilling Australia: the case for more apprenticeships

We need to go from the post-pandemic labour shortage to a new mantra of manufacturing locally and training locally.

Bernard Salt

commentaryWeekend Australian Magazine

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Is job security an anachronism?

Modern workplaces are dealing with a more transient workforce. That suits some workers – but the flip side, there’s little security.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYProperty

Small business goes ‘whoosh’: how middle Australia drove Covid recovery

It’s not politicians, and it’s not the big corporates driving the post-pandemic recovery … it’s plumbers, carpenters, electricians and builders. Here’s how middle Australia took its future into its own hands.

Bernard Salt

commentaryWeekend Australian Magazine

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 10: The new Apple iPhone 11 is displayed during a special event on September 10, 2019 in the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple's Cupertino, California campus. Apple unveiled new products during the event. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Confessions of a digital non-native

More people communicate by writing now than ever. But old habits die hard for those who remember a time before smartphones.

Bernard Salt

commentaryThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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Kings of our castles

Australians are a houseproud people. It’s a social instinct that is hard-wired into us — and it manifests in some funny ways…

Bernard Salt

DEMOGRAPHICSProperty

Three property trends to look out for in 2022

The pandemic will have a number of effects on where we live and help trigger massive change in our lifestyles.

Bernard Salt

commentaryThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Submarine HMAS Rankin sails on the surface in the waters north of Darwin during AUSINDEX 21. *** Local Caption *** Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy are training together in the biennial AUSINDEX 21 maritime warfare exercise. AUSINDEX 21 runs from 7 to 13 September and includes a contactless, COVIDSafe harbour phase in Darwin followed by a sea phase in the North Australian Exercise Area. Royal Australian Navy Anzac class frigate HMAS Warramunga will train alongside Indian Navy warships IN Ships Shivalik and Kadmatt. The ships will be joined by an Royal Australian Navy submarine, Royal Australian Air Force P-8A and F-18A aircraft, as well as embarked helicopters from both navies. First held in 2015, AUSINDEX has increased in complexity with each iteration. The successful 2019 event in India saw the first anti-submarine warfare exercises and first coordinated P-8 aircraft missions over the Bay of Bengal. This is the first time AUSINDEX has taken place in the waters off Darwin

What forward thinking is built into defence?

The clamour for nuclear-powered subs shows this geopolitical situation is something we did not countenance. Why not?

Bernard Salt

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