Episodes

4 June, 2025
Suburban Bliss is Back — How Millennials Are Reimagining the Great Aussie Dream
In today’s show we discuss the significant shift of millennials from urban living to suburban areas. This is a generation that once embraced city skylines, inner-city cafes, and the hustle of urban living but are now packing up and heading for the burbs. But not for the white picket fence…

29 May, 2025
They’re Coming… But Where Will They Live? Australia’s Housing Time Bomb
Imagine inviting thousands of people to a party… but forgetting to organise enough food, chairs, or bathrooms. That’s essentially what Australia is doing: ramping up migration while failing to plan for the housing and infrastructure to support it. The conversation around our housing crisis is often framed around interest rates,…

22 May, 2025
Sea Change, Suburbia, and Survival: Australia’s New Demographic Divide
Australia is growing fast. And while we’re used to thinking about our population huddling around the edges of this vast continent, new data from the Demographics Group shows the blowtorch of growth is now concentrated in just a handful of places — and that’s raising some big questions about the…

15 May, 2025
The truth about Australian manufacturing will surprise you!
Most Australians believe that manufacturing in Australia is dead, but after today’s show you will realise manufacturing isn’t just surviving, it’s entering a new year of growth and innovation. In today’s show Simon Kuestenmacher and I discuss the evolving landscape of Australian manufacturing and debunk the myth that it is…

8 May, 2025
Boomers Took All the Good Properties, How Can Gen Y & Z Can Fight Back and Win?
Have you ever felt like you’re playing a game of property monopoly in Australia, but someone else got to pass “Go” decades before you and now owns half the board, you’re not imagining it. That “someone else”? It's the Baby Boomers. They’ve won the property game in Australia. In today’s…

6 May, 2025
The Hidden Numbers: What Putin Fears Most About Russian Demographics!
The war between Russia and Ukraine has dominated the news for quite some time a few years ago, and then it was slowly relegated to old news section until more recently with Donald Trump’s involvement. In today’s podcast, Simon Kuestenmacher shares some interesting demographic statistics that help us understand what's…

23 April, 2025
This is Why Australia needs a Demographic Strategy
We all know that Australia’s population is growing fast—faster than we’re building homes, roads, schools, or even planning for the future. Migration is up, infrastructure is lagging, and housing is stretched to breaking point. Yet instead of managing all these moving parts together, our governments still treat them like isolated…

16 April, 2025
What 60 Years of Aussie Growth Tells Us About the Next 20
Have you ever stopped to think about how far Australia has come since 1966? That was the year we ditched pounds and pence for dollars and cents… but that’s just the start. Back then, we were a country of just over 11 million people, mostly of Anglo-Celtic heritage, with an…
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