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Ten Things About to Change in Australia
October 6, 2026 · 32 minEvery few months, a new report lands that says everything is about to change. Interest rates, migration, AI, the tax system. Take your pick. Most of it is noise. Dressed up as insight. In today's episode Simon Kuestenmacher and I step…
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The X-Factor: The One Thing Every Property Investor Gets Wrong
September 29, 2026 · 36 minWhat if the biggest risk to your wealth isn't a bad property, a bad loan, or even a bad market... it's the thing you never saw coming at all? In the early 1980s, a young economist called Don Stammer taught me to watch for something he…
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Australia Is Wealthier Than Ever, So Why Are We Less Happy?
September 22, 2026 · 38 minAustralians are wealthier, healthier and living longer than previous generations, so why are we becoming less happy? Why are younger Australians now among the least happy people in the country? And have expensive housing, social…
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The Millennial Mountain — Why 7 Million Aussies Are About to Rewrite the Housing Market
September 15, 2026 · 35 minFor twenty years, the story of Australian housing was apartments. Cranes over the CBD, young professionals in one-bedroom towers, cafes on every corner. Today, that story is quietly ending, and almost nobody in property or planning…
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Australia Then and Now: 45 Years of Extraordinary Change
September 8, 2026 · 47 minAustralians just completed the 2026 Census, the largest and most important statistical exercise conducted in this country which provide a snapshot of who we are, where we live, how we work, what our households look like and how our society…
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The Real Reason Your Bills Are Rising Faster Than "Inflation" (It's Not What You Think)
September 1, 2026 · 38 minYou're told inflation is running at around three per cent a year, yet when you look at your mortgage repayments, your rent, your electricity bill and your council rates, none of it feels like three per cent, does it? That's because it…
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Why Australians Have Stopped Being Nice (The Data Doesn't Lie)
August 25, 2026 · 37 minHave you noticed people seem shorter-tempered lately? The bloke who snaps at you in the supermarket queue. The relative who tears strips off a nurse in a hospital waiting room. The parent screaming at a teenage umpire at a junior footy…
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Australia's Biggest Property Shakeup is coming, and you're probably not ready for it
August 18, 2026 · 32 minBy the time many of today's Gen Z buys their first home, Melbourne will have overtaken Sydney as Australia's biggest city. Canberra will be bigger than Newcastle. And a sleepy Victorian farming town called Warragul will have more than…