One of the things you’ll never get from Australian media is a Mea Culpa.

Media will never apologise for getting it wrong or causing harm or grief to the people of Australia, unless they’re legally forced to do so.

They will nonchalantly declare that the value of our homes will drop 20% or 30% or 40% in the next year – and then 12 months later when they’re proven spectacularly wrong, you’re not going to get an apology.

Because, let’s be clear, those kinds of sensationalist predictions, which are common in Australian media, do cause considerable grief in the community.

Which brings me to the latest item of serious misinformation that has been inflicted on Australian consumers – that the trend of people leaving the biggest cities and moving to the regions or smaller cities, is over.

Recent articles simply and emphatically have declared that it’s over.

Everyone, apparently, is moving back to the big cities.

Let me tell you, nothing of the sort is happening.