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"The latest research by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed the fertility rate was 1.48 babies per woman in 2024, down from 2023 figures."

"Housing affordability, economic security, gender inequality and climate change were the four big things that were not being earnestly tackled by government, Dr Allen said."

No shit.

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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They went so far down the wage slave route that we can't even afford to produce more children. It really is a mental illness amount of greed and we have to start treating it that way.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

Agreed that 80% of voters have something wrong in the head but here we are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’