Census 2016: 'typical' Aussie is a 38-year-old mum with two kids
Census 2016: 'typical' Aussie is a 38-year-old mum with two kids
- Mandy Black loves Vegemite toast, playing backyard cricket, exploring the great outdoors and throwing a sanger on the barbie and has achieved the Australian dream of owning her own home.
- Mandy Black loves Vegemite toast, playing backyard cricket, exploring the great outdoors and throwing a sanger on the barbie and has achieved the Australian dream of owning her own home.
She also happens to be slap bang in the nation’s demographic sweet spot.
When
the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its first batch of census
data yesterday, Ms Black at 38 years of age, a mother of two children
with a husband, a house and parents that were born here, fits the
definition of the “typical’’ Australian.
“I’m not surprised to hear that I’m the typical Australian,” Ms Black said yesterday from her home in suburban Perth.
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