Fewer Australians starting families over unstable ‘economic conditions’

Sky News host Caleb Bond says the number of Australians having families is dropping as the fertility rate dips below the replacement rate. “Statistically now the number of people having families is dropping, the fertility rate in Australia at the moment is 1.6, the replacement rate we need to keep the population stable is 2.1,” he said. “Fewer people having fewer kids because fundamentally they don’t own anything.”