Last year I read a fascinating book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, by Mara Hvistendahl. She talks about the issue of missing women, how demographically, there should be more women than there are in many different countries of the world. TheContinue Reading
Last month, the annual fertility rates were released by the ABS. I last did a post on this two years ago, so it is time for an update. My broad conclusion was that fertility rates are pretty stable in Australia, with the very important caveat that that stability is in theContinue Reading
The annual fertility statistics were released last month. There wasn’t as much of the traditional story about how Peter Costello had single handedly forced up the fertility rate by introducing the baby bonus (here’s a story here – reasonably staid), which was so prevalent a few years ago, but I thought wasContinue Reading
This week’s book review is The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in historyby John M Barry. The book is the story of the “Spanish Flu” – in 1918 and 1919 (depending on where you were in the world) a deadly influenza swept the world, killing between 50Continue Reading
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