19 July

I think we’re in denial about just how old our society now is. Take Lithgow as an example. Current population is over 20,000. Here’s a trivia question - how many of those people actually work? Only just over 4,500. That’s only just over 20% of the population, of working age. And you can see this is about an ageing society when you look at where most people work. Lithgow is famous for being a mining town. But almost twice as many people in Lithgow now look after the aged and sick, as work down the mines.