“‘Demographic tsunami’ will keep Sydney, Melbourne property prices high” screams the headline.
While the census showed Australia overall is aging, there’s been a noticeable lift in the number of people aged between 25 to 32.
As the accompanying graph shows…
Whoa, that is one ugly chart. First thought: let’s not be too hard on Fairfax Media, they’ve sacked most of their real journalists and they took the chart from someone else. Second thought: if you want to visualise change over time, time as an axis rather than a coloured bar is generally a good idea.
Can we do better?
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