1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,719 Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It is Wednesday, 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: the twenty ninth of June. On today's episode, remember that 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: survey that you took in the latter part of last year, Well, 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: those results are now with us the census. We are 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: ready to break it down and get a real picture 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: of what Australia looks like today. Before we do that, Billy, 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: yesday was a big day in world news. What was 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: leading headlines. 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: Yesterday? The bodies of forty six people were found in 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: an abandoned tractor trailer on the outskirts of the Texas 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: city of San Antonio. Sixteen others, including twelve adults and 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: four children, were found alive and taken it to hospital. 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: They believed to be migrants who crossed into Texas from Mexico. 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 2: It is not immediately clear at the time of recording 15 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 2: how they died, but authority said the survivors were suffering 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 2: from heatstroke. And this comes as Texas has been experiencing 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: an extreme heat wave. 18 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: Only buses, trains, medical and food service vehicles in Sri 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: Lanka will be allowed to fill up with fuel. The 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: country takes drastic steps to navigate its growing economic crisis, 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: so under these new rules, private vehicles will be banned 22 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: from buying petrol and diesel until the tenth of July. 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: The move will buy the government some more time to 24 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: secure supplies for its people, after officials estimated that current 25 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: fuel supplies would last less than a week under regular demand. 26 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 2: New South Wales Premier Dominic Parrote has said that he 27 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: knew of former Deputy Premier John Barrollaro's desire to land 28 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: the US trade posting that is now the subject of 29 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: a parliamentary inquiry beginning today. Perrote said he discussed the 30 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: position with Barillaro at a social function sometime after he 31 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: left politics in October of last year. 32 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: And your humpday good news. The Government of India will 33 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: ban single use plastics from the first of July twenty 34 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: twenty two. According to the government, India currently generates about 35 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: three point five million tons of plastic waste annually. India's 36 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: Environment Minister said in April plastic has become one of 37 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: the most pressing environmental issues that we are facing today. 38 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: Okay, so census came out yesterday, Sam, I don't know 39 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: if you remember where you were on the tenth of August. 40 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: I think a lot of Australians. Well, at least if 41 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 2: you were in Sydney, also Melbourne and perhaps even Brisbane 42 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: as well, you were probably in lockdown on the tenth 43 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: of August last year. But Sam, before we get into 44 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 2: the big headline pieces of information that came out yesterday, 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: can you explain what the census actually is and why 46 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: it's so important for Australia. 47 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: Billy, I remember sitting on my sharehouse couch on the 48 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: tenth of August last year. All the housemates gathered around 49 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: to answer these really important questions about the household at 50 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: that exact point of time. It's a really exciting day 51 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: for data nerds, but it's exciting for a lot of reasons. 52 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: So I guess the simplest way to put it is 53 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: that the Census is the biggest data collection activity that 54 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: we do in Australia. Now. It happens only once every 55 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: five years, and the aim of it is to give 56 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: quite a d detailed snapshot of what Australia looks like, 57 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: where we live, what we do for work, how many 58 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: people there are in the country, and what their families 59 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: look like, what their backgrounds are. There's all sorts of 60 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: different bits and pieces at the end of the day, 61 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: it's a really important document for the government to make 62 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: its policy decisions and to think about the state of 63 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: the nation and what they decide to do with their 64 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: budgets and with their resources will impact the people of 65 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: the country. I guess for us as kind of a 66 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: consumer of this document, in some sense it gives us 67 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: a good idea of how Australia changes over time and 68 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: really gives us insight into the key social trends. And 69 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: what we got yesterday was kind of the big headline 70 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: pieces from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and they're the 71 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: ones responsible for collecting the census, and I'm pretty keen 72 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: to take you through some of those headlines today. You've 73 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: got to remember, though, this is a long document and 74 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: we're going to learn more and more over the weeks 75 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: and monthstas are going to pour over this document in 76 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: detail and we'll have lots of different revelations over the 77 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: state of the country. 78 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: So let's go through some of the key pieces of 79 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: information that came out from the sensors. SAM What did 80 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: it find about the age makeup of the Australian population? 81 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: Long Live Young People, Billy. It seems that there are 82 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: more of us. And I think this is the big 83 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 1: story and the big trend over the last five years 84 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: or ten years is the growth of the millennial. And 85 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: finally this time, millennials have caught up with baby boomers. 86 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: So baby boomers are a huge cohort of people. There 87 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: was a point in time where baby boomers made up 88 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: to forty percent of the Australian population. Now they've been 89 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: falling as a share of the Australian population. Now they're 90 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: about twenty one point five percent, and that's the same 91 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: as millennials. So to put it simply, people who are 92 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: now aged between twenty five to thirty nine have caught 93 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: up with the baby boomers and there's only about five 94 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: thousand people difference, which in the context of the countries 95 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: is just nothing. So to give you the kind of 96 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: raw number there, it's five point four million baby boomers 97 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: and five point four million millennials and they are now 98 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: the two dominant generations in Australia. Now let's bring it 99 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: into politics, right. We talk a lot about baby boomers 100 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: and their role in politics, and I'm speaking here as 101 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: a millennial, but there's often talk about how young people 102 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: and their influence in politics and how they represented in 103 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: parliament changes over time. Now we know that over the 104 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: next five years we're going to be a larger share 105 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: of the population and we're only just getting started. 106 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: Spoken like a true millennial, Sam, you sound like you 107 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 2: have a buias towards young people. Surprise, surprise, you should 108 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 2: own a young person company. 109 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: The kids are all right, Billy, the kids are alright. 110 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 2: And if you're not quite sure what generation you're part of, 111 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 2: we do have a very helpful graph over on the 112 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 2: Daily Ozz Instagram which has actually started some debate Sam 113 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: in the office. Some people didn't even know that they 114 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: were a gen Z. But Sam, what did it find 115 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 2: about the religious makeup of the Australian demographic and how 116 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: that has changed over time? 117 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: I found this to be a really interesting part of 118 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: the census. In short, this was the first census where 119 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: less than half of the population identified as Christian. The 120 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: stat this year was forty four percent of the country 121 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: identified as Christian. That's quite a significant drop from previous censuses. 122 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: If you take it about ten years ago, the census 123 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: told us it was about sixty one percent of people 124 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: identified as Christian. Now, the fact that that's dropped to 125 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: forty four percent in the space of only ten years 126 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: is really significant. And there's also an emerging group of 127 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: Australians who are not religious at all. So now we're 128 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: actually getting a sense that the number of Christians in 129 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: the country is the same as the number of people 130 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: who are not religious, or very close. It's about thirty 131 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: nine percent of people in this census that identify as 132 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: not religious, and I think this kind of goes to 133 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: a bigger question that we have as society. It's clearly 134 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: becoming more secular and less religious. Then we can turn 135 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: to some other religions and we see some fast growth 136 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: in those though, and that kind of almost contradicts the 137 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: point about us becoming less religious. Perhaps now the way 138 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: to think about it is we're becoming more diverse. Hinduism 139 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: and Islam in particular were identified by the ABS as 140 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: really fast growing groups. They're still much smaller as proportions 141 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: of the population. So we've got two point seven percent 142 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: of the country identifying as Hindu and three point two 143 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: percent of the country identifying as Muslim, but those numbers 144 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: have been growing quite significantly. So I guess if we're 145 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: to zoom out and look at the sensus and what 146 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: we learned about religion as a whole. I think the 147 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: clear takeaway here is that religious diversity in Australia is 148 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: changing and changing quite quickly. 149 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 2: And I was also reading that this census has revealed 150 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 2: that the Australian population has doubled over the past fifty years. 151 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 2: How many of us are now born overseas. 152 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: So there's now twenty eight percent of the country that 153 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: is born overseas, and about forty eight percent of Australians 154 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: have at least one parent born overseas, and that to 155 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,559 Speaker 1: me just reflects more the multicultural society that Australia has become. 156 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: That number is getting higher and higher, and that's really 157 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: significant in terms of the main kind of places that 158 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: people in Australia have come from. Now the most common 159 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: countries that people have come from outside of Australia are England, India, China, 160 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: and New Zealand. India actually overtook China and New Zealand 161 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: and moved into second place. And that's also reflected in 162 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: the languages spoken at home other than English, and interestingly, 163 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: there are close to a million speakers of Mandarin and Arabic. 164 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: They're the two most common languages spoken at home other 165 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: than English, and the census also revealed importantly an increase 166 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: in the number of people who identify as First Nation Australians. 167 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: So more than eight hundred thousand people in the census 168 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 1: identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, which equates to 169 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: about three point two percent of the population, and that's 170 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: a twenty five percent increase on the number that was 171 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: recorded only five years ago. Now there's a number of 172 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: reasons why this might be the case. One could be 173 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 1: that not everyone fills out the census every year, and 174 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: there's always lots of efforts at the ABS to make 175 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: sure that as many people are filling out the census, 176 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: and there are particular challenges with remote communities, and this 177 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: year it looks like they've really reached a number of 178 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: those remote communities and made sure they're adequately represented in 179 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: the national portrait. And this is really significant. The number 180 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: of people who are over the age of sixty five 181 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander has more 182 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: than doubled in a decade, and that's really significant when 183 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: we think about things like closing the gap and the 184 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: shure the life expectancies for people from Aboriginal and Torres 185 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: Strait Islander background. The other stat I found super interesting 186 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: was the very rich language diversity of Aboriginal and Torestraight 187 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: Islanders spoken at home. We saw one hundred and sixty 188 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: seven different Aboriginal and Tores Strait Islander languages recorded in 189 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: this census. 190 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 2: And this is also the first census since same sex 191 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 2: marriage was legalized in Australia in twenty seventeen. So how 192 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 2: many same sex marriages do we have in Australia now? 193 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: It's been a big five years for same sex marriage. 194 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: There are in now twenty five thousand same sex marriages 195 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: registered in the country. I guess to put that in 196 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: the broader context, there's about ten million Australians who are 197 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: married and close to two million who are divorced. It's 198 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: another million who are widowed and at about half a 199 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: million who are separated, So it's still relatively small in 200 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: terms of the grand scheme of married couples. But you've 201 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: got to keep in mind it's only been five years 202 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: since it was legalized, and I think when we next 203 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: see this stat reported in five years time, I wouldn't 204 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: be surprised, and I hope it's going to be much greater. 205 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 2: Well, I think to sum it up, the census really 206 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: helps us understand the changing demographics of Australia. And I 207 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: know that this is just the first lump of information 208 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 2: that we're getting from the Census. There will be more 209 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 2: information to come and that will have more information about 210 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 2: the salaries of Australians and what suburbs they live in. 211 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 2: So stay tuned for that. We will bring it all 212 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 2: to you on the Daily Ods podcast and on our Instagram. 213 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 2: Have a great day and we will see you tomorrow.