#DrDemography: “Yet #history doesn’t start the day we are born. The #LessonsOfThePast must inform the path ahead. And that means the only limit is our appetite for #innovation.”
Great article by ANU’s Dr Liz Allen on #Australia’s #DemographicHistory & future. #AusPol #PopulationPolicy
“…the steady increase in the average age means #Australia will comprise of mostly middle-aged people by 2065. It leaves #IncomeTax as an unsustainable method to fill #GovernmentCoffers and business, currently benefiting from #TaxIncentives, must step up.”
#DrDemography #Demography #FuturePlanning
“But the 2nd lesson from #COVID19′s closed Aussie borders was that #migrants aren’t to blame for #Australia’s multiple crises. Instead, the message was that the only way Australia can escape its policy messes is to innovate.”
#DrDemography makes a very good point, one that politicians won’t admit.
#Australia 1920s: “Male concern at the falling #BirthRate made #politicians more willing to pay for #HealthServices for #mothers & #babies.”
1940s: One woman wrote: “You men in easy chairs say ‘#PopulateOrPerish’. Well. I have populated and I have perished — with no blankets.”
#DrDemography
