Data reveals Australia’s birth rates have fallen to record low amid cost of living crisis

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New statistics about Australia's plummeting birth rate appear to confirm what demographers have been saying for months – the cost of living and housing crisis are prompting people to re-think having a family. Official figures show the fertility rate has hit a new low of 1.5 babies, per woman.

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