On a September morning in 2026, Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers placed before his nation a forty-year mirror — one reflecting the converging forces of artificial intelligence, demographic aging, and declining fertility that will quietly but profoundly reshape the country's economy and social fabric. The seventh intergenerational report arrives not as prophecy but as an invitation to choose: to be, in Chalmers' own framing, beneficiaries rather than victims of accelerating change. Yet even as governments reach toward long horizons, the immediate human cost of violence against women and child
Australia faces 'confronting' 40-year outlook as domestic violence deaths spike
One child died and two children plus a woman remain in critical condition following a stabbing attack in the Blue Mountains; three women were killed in separate domestic violence-related incidents within 12 hours in NSW.
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