Bernard Salt

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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BY THE NUMBERSColumnists

These notebooks were among my late mother's most prized posessions - and offer a fascinating insight.

My mum’s notebooks are a piece of social history

They were among my late mother’s most prized possessions and itemise the weekly costs of running a family home in the 1950s and 1960s.

Bernard Salt

PopulationProperty

Tasmanian Government Railways C Class No.22 steam locomotive at the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy. Picture: Chris Kidd

The ageing train that’s thundering towards us

Barely eight years away is an 85-plus cohort bearing down on us like a speeding freight train and we should be planning for their arrival now.

Bernard Salt

TIME OF YOUR LIFEMedical

senior couple looking from spectacular view of Captain Cooks lookout from the top of Lizard Island over the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

The new creed being embraced by post-Covid retirees

Here is a generation of retirees who regard Covid’s border closures as having ‘taken’ two of their remaining good years. And they’re doing something about it.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYColumnists

Pastor, church and man praying for his congregation to god for spiritual wellness on a Sunday. Hope, religious and priest preaching to christian people standing on a podium in a cathedral building.

My love of words was born in the Catholic Church

Here is an institution with a language that is evocative, spiritual and, at times, more than a bit scary. Or at least that’s what I thought as a kid in the 60s.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYColumnists

Playful baby girl in the nature in springtime. Close up portraits and details. Outdoors weekend activities.

What is your earliest memory?

When do we start remembering people, places, experiences? I have a good memory of family life from the age of two onwards – but there are glimpses of earlier times.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYColumnists

Hippies Dancing and Playing Guitar. Age effects added.

After the noughties and tens, we’re back on familiar ground

For the past 25 years – including the year 2000 – I have struggled to find an acceptable term to describe the first two of the 21st century’s decades. But I can finally rest easy.

Bernard Salt

DemographicsProperty

Over the coming decade the millennial generation that colonised the inner city as singles and couples over the past 15 years will transition into the growing family stage of the life cycle.

The toddler-inspired suburban switcheroo

The millennial generation is the force preparing to transform our suburban heartland into lifestyle zones.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYWeekend Australian Magazine

For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House.

It’s time, Australia, to change the way we look at housing

Australia’s housing market has become so tight, so heated, that I think it’s time to become quite forensic in tracking all parts of the housing market. Including entry-level.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYWeekend Australian Magazine

BRISBANE AUSTRALIA MONDAY JANUARY 22 2024 .Generic Photo of theAustralian flag .Picture: Glenn Campbell/NCA NewsWire

Australia is a nation divided. It always has been

Unity is a national rallying cry but the reality is different. This is the nation of rabbit proof fences, of city versus bush and Covid-induced fracture.

Bernard Salt

COMMENTARYWeekend Australian Magazine

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - JANUARY 14: A man holds a flag of Denmark in Christiansborg Palace square on January 14, 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. On January 14th, Her Majesty The Queen steps down as Queen of Denmark and entrusts the throne to His Royal Highness The Crown Prince. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Welcome to Denmark: high-tax utopia and proud of it

The Danes seem to be prepared to pay any price, to bear any burden, to keep living standards high and their beloved peninsula nation separate from Europe.

Bernard Salt

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