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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

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Has our pride and love for Australia come to an end?

Gone are the prideful depictions of our sunburnt country via art, song and poetry. But the projection of Australian culture is always evolving.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

A Boomer’s advice for Gen Z employees

Take it from me. After four decades in the workforce I have gathered sufficient experience to have an opinion. My advice might surprise you.

Bernard Salt

IndustryCompanies

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos April 19, 2021: Signage outside a Coles supermarket, Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / James Gourley

Gap analysis: Where Australia needs more big business

Australia’s top 20 list of publicly listed businesses shows us what we are good at – but also reveals obvious gaps which the nation should seek to fill if it wants to remain competitive and prosperous.

Bernard Salt

MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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Modern children are missing out on this vital life lesson

There’s something missing nowadays compared to the way things were during the 1960s when sports and games fitted into the broader backyard landscape.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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What is it that Australians want for themselves — and their kids?

We need to talk about the ways in which Australians can be united behind common goals, shared aspirations and, as old- fashioned as it may seem, a love of country.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYRelationships

Magic number: why do people hit this age, and decide to separate?

The late forties and early fifties are turbulent years for anyone in the Australian life-cycle. But what is it about this particular birthday that makes people rethink their marriages?

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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Think the internet changed Australia? How about sewerage

During an era of wealth generation delivered by gold, wool, wheat and export of refrigerated meat, a huge change lengthened Australians’ lifespans.

Bernard Salt

INQUIRERInquirer

Updated ABS data reveals the ways Australia has changed, and what lies ahead.

How Australians abandoned the regions for the ‘lifestyle zone’

As ‘blue bits’ beyond the edges of our capital cities emerge – boosted by the advent of work from home – Australians are changing the way they live and work in a post-pandemic world.

Bernard Salt

EconomyProperty

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Is Australia still the lucky country?

Australia is a Florida of the south but with Copenhagen-quality coffee shops. Or in other words we’re a little bit Paris and a big bit Dallas. So is Australia still a ripper place to buy property?

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

POOL PHOTO: Aerial view of Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 3 December 2021. Pool photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Is it time for an Australian state to have an Indigenous name?

Unlike Canada, we still don’t have a state or territory named for our first nations people.

Bernard Salt

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