Australia is officially in a baby drought. 

We’ve experienced our biggest drop in annual births since 1975. Back then, it was due to soaring inflation, low growth and the proliferation of the birth control pill.

So what’s happening now? And what does it mean for us, considering - as one French philosopher put it - demography is destiny?

Today, senior reporter Josh Gordon, on which city is having the least babies. And what happened to our most recent baby boom, only a few years ago. 



Archive audio credit:
- ABC's Australian Story Cost of living 1970 with Caroline Jones
- Making ends meet, Thames TV

To read more:
- 'Melbourne in the grip of baby drought as rent becomes 'great contraceptive'', Josh Gordon, The Age

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