Three Shocks

But we're again...the first one being we're again becoming a majority migrant nation...

I think you say we're the first country to do so, that is to...

First

English-speaking country to become majority migrant again.

Yes.

So there's obviously for the settler nations, US, Canada, New Zealand and ourselves, there were periods in the sort of 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, well, not the 16th, certainly the 17th for the US, where they were majority migrant.

So majority of the population has at least one migrant parent.

We're the first English-speaking nation to return to that position.

And we're heading towards, I think, 55% is the...

Yeah, I think that

we've obviously just filled out our census forms the other week.

And I think it would basically, based on the people flows after the reopening of the economy after lockdown, after COVID, the way those numbers are tracking, it could be pushing towards 55%.

But that means in a Sydney, a Melbourne and a Perth, it's closer to 70%.

Yes, we'll come to that because it is a sort of a tale of two Australias to some extent on that index.

The second one that you talk about, and I think it's important to say that these shocks aren't necessarily negative shocks, are they?

No, no, they're identity shocks.

So they force you to think anew about who we are.

They're not negative shocks.

The first two are the reality of Australia today.

Yeah, that's right.

And so that second one is the feminisation of the economy.

Women in business attire are more typical than men in overalls, I think would be a good way of saying it.

That's a

brilliant way.

I wish I'd thought of it myself.