Simon Kuestenmacher
The New Daily
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Past articles by Simon:
Healthcare reform: Would you like some housing with that?
A maternity ward has closed for want of nurses. If hospitals subsided housing as a job benefit that wouldn't have happened. → Read More
Demographic advice for self-interested politician
How could a self-interested politician use ABS Census data to pick which policies to support and which cohort’s problems to ignore → Read More
The Stats Guy: Millennials care about the environment, but does that mean they're ditching petrol cars?
You’ve heard plenty of stories about young Australians without drivers licenses. A simple enough narrative it seems. Young people live in inner cities and We are more likely to be car owners now than we were 15 years ago. → Read More
The Stats Guy: Career advice for Gen Z that's driven by the data
Hey Gen Z (born 2000-17), are you thinking about your career? Maybe you aren’t sure which degree to pursue. Should you even bother with university? Which → Read More
Population matters, baby! The world saw peak births years ago
With the passing of 'peak baby' comes the first sign of global human population growth coming to an end as we approach 'peak humanity'. → Read More
A look at the homesick Aussies who returned during the pandemic
We now know who our returning Aussies are, where they settled and how many of them there were and how they contributed to house prices rising → Read More
The canary in the coal mine: rising and falling jobs
The jobs that lost the most workers and the jobs that gained the most workers are like a canary in the coal mine, writes Simon Kuestenmacher. → Read More
Dear singles, let’s use the Census to find you a partner!
'The Stats Guy' Simon Kuestenmacher reveals how the Census could help singles succeed on the dating market. → Read More
Does a defence force career alter your outcomes?
Is life better or worse after serving in the defence force? Census data reveals some interesting statistics. → Read More
The Stats Guy: Where Millennials and their families are settling
These are the areas in each state that Millennials left in the last year and where they decided to settle afterwards. → Read More
Where have all the young folks gone? And are they coming back?
Getting more migrants into the country soon will ease the skills shortage but it will take years to catch up on the pandemic population loss. → Read More
The Stats Guy: The rising cost of living is actually encouraging us to spend more
The cost of living is going up and up. How do Australians respond? We have a good time. Airfares are much more expensive than they used to be. We travel → Read More
The Stats Guy: Is Germany or Australia handling the pandemic better?
These days, any comparison of countries is of course largely a COVID-19 pandemic story. Let's look at the best available data out there. → Read More
The Stats Guy: Demographic ideas to start a thriving niche business
Based on demographic data, these sorts of businesses are operating in markets that are only going to grow over the coming decades. → Read More
The Stats Guy: COVID tops the list of factors shaping Gen Z
Having always had access to all the information in the world, Gen Z tend to think about big picture global issues first, local concerns second. → Read More