
The Stats Guy: Why I love population pyramids, but never, ever use them
If you want to explore population data, if you think about demographics – it’s probably a population pyramid that you are intuitively...

The Stats Guy: Why Australia should care about fertility in Kazakhstan
I don’t know what you are up to today, but you probably didn’t plan to think in depth about birth rates in...

The Stats Guy: Gen Z is the most loyal workforce Australia ever had
There is no shortage of headlines proclaiming how young people (gen Z to be exact) are job-hopping like never before, frequently switching...

The Stats Guy: Have I been wrong in dismissing gen X’s dirty fantasy?
Gen X (born 1964-81) is approaching the leadership stage of their careers and occupies many of the top jobs in government and...

The Stats Guy: The rise and fall – and rise – of Australia’s middle class
Australia’s middle class wasn’t a happy accident – it was deliberately built. In the decades after World War II, government policy created...

The Stats Guy: The AI trap and falling in love with ourselves
Spoiler alert: This week’s column is centred around a great book that I will spoil for you in the first paragraph. Bookmark...

The Stats Guy: Why high house prices might drive down divorces
We talk a lot about how Australia’s soaring property prices are locking young people out of homeownership. But research suggests they’re also...

The Stats Guy: The great cleanup, humanity’s next big project
It’s easy to find a dystopian future described in movies and literature. Technology ruling us all? The Matrix and Terminator. Too little...

The Stats Guy: How many international students is too many?
International students are essential to Australian universities and to our economy. In 2024, just under 1.1 million international students were enrolled in...

The Stats Guy: Are young Australians falling behind – or just running a different race?
For much of Australia’s history, we’ve told ourselves a comforting story – each generation would be better off than the last. It’s...
