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We're a smaller, older country now

Alex Dunnin OUTLOOK

Demography is destiny. It drives our economy, productive capacity, property prices, demand for goods, sharemarket prices, the job market and salaries. The feedback loop adding to the money cocktail is that overseas demography, and what those societies want, will drive demand for Australia's major exports, which are commodities.

After three years of Covid-19, economic watchers and investors – which covers, implicitly and explicitly, pretty much all of us – want to know what the real long-run

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