Towards 2050: Social infrastructure for Australia’s future
Australians are changing. By 2042, the number of Australians over 85 will double to over one million. There’ll be greater rates of chronic disease, more people requiring specialist aged care, more people living with disability. By 2041, there’ll also be six million more people living in this country. Our nation will require more hospital beds, childcare centres, disability housing, student accommodation, seniors living and other housing. For the sake of our future community, it’s time for open conversations about what infrastructure we must deliver and who will deliver it. This podcast is a forum for expert-led conversation on Australia’s growing and changing population and future community requirements, and ideas for building the necessary social infrastructure to meet our needs.
Episodes
Australia’s international education sector is our largest service export outside mining, contributing more than $50 billion annually and employing over 200,000 people. Yet housing shortages and affordability pressures are impacting students’ wellbeing and academic success.
In this episode, host Ryan Banting explores why Australia lags behind global peers in student accommodation, the role private capital plays in suppor...
Australia’s aged care sector is undergoing a profound transformation—a quiet revolution that will shape how we age and how we care for older Australians. In this episode, Ryan Banting speaks with Ian Yates AM, one of the nation’s most respected advocates for older people, about the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Ryan and Ian discuss:
- Why aged care is more than residential facilities, or aged care ...
Host: Ryan Banting, Executive General Manager, Social Infrastructure, Australian Unity
Guests:
· Dr David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and the Social Economy at RMIT
· Prue Bowden, Group Executive—Home Health, Australian Unity
In this powerful episode, we delve right into the heart of Australia’s care economy—where aged care, disability support, childcare, and health services intersec...
Home Truths – Specialist Disability Accommodation in Australia
Host:
Ryan Banting, Executive General Manager, Social Infrastructure, Australian Unity
Guests:
- Jeremy Hop...
Towards 2050 is a podcast series that explores the critical role of social infrastructure in Australia – as our nation grows in size and everyone’s daily needs rapidly change in line with the ageing of our population.
This podcast explores our country’s need to develop new social infrastructure over the next 25 years and will chart a roadmap for delivering it. In the first episode of the series, Alison Holloway fr...
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