Dr Lisa Denny
@lisadenny.bsky.social
Systems Thinker. Demographer. Researcher. Educator. Mum.
www.lisadenny.com.au
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Calling older persons waiting in hospital beds for aged care beds ‘bed blockers’ is completely unacceptable. They are not the bed blockers - the bed blocker is the failure of governments to effectively plan for the future demand for aged care places. #politas
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Calling older persons waiting in hospital beds for aged care beds ‘bed blockers’ is completely unacceptable. They are not the bed blockers - the bed blocker is the failure of governments to effectively plan for the future demand for aged care places. #politas
The thing is many sectors’ workforces need to double over the next few years - eg health, allied health, aged care - from a diminishing supply of potential new workforce entrants. That means that we must ensure ALL young people successfully complete their schooling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Construction workforce must double within two years to meet new demand
A record pipeline of infrastructure projects will require more workers and a more efficient building sector, according to the peak federal government agency.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The thing is many sectors’ workforces need to double over the next few years - eg health, allied health, aged care - from a diminishing supply of potential new workforce entrants. That means that we must ensure ALL young people successfully complete their schooling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Yes, please 🤩👏💥
(but do hope that education does not become a polital football) #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
(but do hope that education does not become a polital football) #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yes, please 🤩👏💥
(but do hope that education does not become a polital football) #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
(but do hope that education does not become a polital football) #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
Unfortunately, this is just the start of the demand for aged care and related services which we haven’t planned for. Those born in 1945 at the start of the post WWII baby boom are turning 80 this year… 26 more years ahead of increasing demand before cohorts start getting smaller….
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Unfortunately, this is just the start of the demand for aged care and related services which we haven’t planned for. Those born in 1945 at the start of the post WWII baby boom are turning 80 this year… 26 more years ahead of increasing demand before cohorts start getting smaller….
An important read in the context of population ageing, housing, ‘ageing in place’ and regional areas in particular. #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
The 'grotesque policy cock-up' stopping downsizers freeing up their homes
In regional Australia, where baby boomers are being told to downsize to free up homes, country communities are having to become developers to build appropriate-sized housing.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
An important read in the context of population ageing, housing, ‘ageing in place’ and regional areas in particular. #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
This is great - can’t wait to contribute to the consultation about the vision for our marine environment - but wouldn’t it be great if we could have an overarching vision for Tasmania and shape our public sector around that? #politas
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is great - can’t wait to contribute to the consultation about the vision for our marine environment - but wouldn’t it be great if we could have an overarching vision for Tasmania and shape our public sector around that? #politas
www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
Amazing skies in Bicheno tonight
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Amazing skies in Bicheno tonight
My demographer musings explain why I believe the effectiveness of the RBA is now diminishing because it does not take into consideration the discipline of demography and the demographic change that has occurred since its establishment in 1960. #politas #auspol
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The RBA, the inflation rate and interest rates
A demographer’s musings…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
My demographer musings explain why I believe the effectiveness of the RBA is now diminishing because it does not take into consideration the discipline of demography and the demographic change that has occurred since its establishment in 1960. #politas #auspol
lisadenny.substack.com/p/the-rba-th...
lisadenny.substack.com/p/the-rba-th...
Astounded given the demand for aged care, particularly nursing homes, is about to ⬆️ sig. in Tasmania. Over the next 15 yrs, the no. ppl aged 85+ will ⬆️ 106% and we will not have sufficient workforce to provide the level of care needed to ‘age in place’. #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Astounded given the demand for aged care, particularly nursing homes, is about to ⬆️ sig. in Tasmania. Over the next 15 yrs, the no. ppl aged 85+ will ⬆️ 106% and we will not have sufficient workforce to provide the level of care needed to ‘age in place’. #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
My questions to the Treasurer are: What do you think the consequences will be of not equalising pay with interstate counterparts? And, what do you think the consequences will be if you cut funding to the community services industry? #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My questions to the Treasurer are: What do you think the consequences will be of not equalising pay with interstate counterparts? And, what do you think the consequences will be if you cut funding to the community services industry? #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
It's all very well to say that Tasmania is the best place to raise a family, but we need to be able to have them first. We can arrest the decline in the TFR, but it needs to be a deliverate choice. My OpEd in the Mercury #politas open.substack.com/pub/lisadenn...
Arresting the decline in the fertility rate is possible but it must be a deliberate choice.
The alternative shouldn’t be an option.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
It's all very well to say that Tasmania is the best place to raise a family, but we need to be able to have them first. We can arrest the decline in the TFR, but it needs to be a deliverate choice. My OpEd in the Mercury #politas open.substack.com/pub/lisadenn...
Of the 51K new jobs since 2014, 15.3K were in Health Care and Social Assistance (49%⬆️) which is 30.1% of all new jobs. 8.7K in Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (84.2%⬆️) and 6.4K in Public Admin. (38.8%⬆️). Mining, IMT and Wholesale Trade ⬇️ #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Of the 51K new jobs since 2014, 15.3K were in Health Care and Social Assistance (49%⬆️) which is 30.1% of all new jobs. 8.7K in Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (84.2%⬆️) and 6.4K in Public Admin. (38.8%⬆️). Mining, IMT and Wholesale Trade ⬇️ #politas www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
If Australia is going to be a manufacturing nation again, it needs to invest in, and prioritise, R+D as well as ensure we have an education pipeline providing that knowledge and skill. #politas #auspol
PM’s vow to save Australia www.themercury.com.au/news/nationa...
PM’s vow to save Australia www.themercury.com.au/news/nationa...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If Australia is going to be a manufacturing nation again, it needs to invest in, and prioritise, R+D as well as ensure we have an education pipeline providing that knowledge and skill. #politas #auspol
PM’s vow to save Australia www.themercury.com.au/news/nationa...
PM’s vow to save Australia www.themercury.com.au/news/nationa...
More often than not,Tasmania can be its own worst enemy. Most dispersed population with an ageing demographic, people with the skills we so desperately need are leaving the state. It will have a snowball effect, which has already started #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
GPs who want to stay in Tasmania say there are no jobs for their skills
Rural generalists are GPs with training in emergency care and one other advanced skill area. While Tasmania has a training program for rural generalists, doctors say their skills are not properly reco...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
More often than not,Tasmania can be its own worst enemy. Most dispersed population with an ageing demographic, people with the skills we so desperately need are leaving the state. It will have a snowball effect, which has already started #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Good morning from Devonport, Tasmania 😊
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Good morning from Devonport, Tasmania 😊
Leaving the dynamics of population change to chance is a high-risk strategy - and introducing the Future Populations Network - my OpEd in the Mercury Newspaper today. #politas
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October 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Leaving the dynamics of population change to chance is a high-risk strategy - and introducing the Future Populations Network - my OpEd in the Mercury Newspaper today. #politas
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There are always consequences to decisions that need to be thought through BEFORE making decisions. With an ageing population and ⬆️ health services demand plus the need for ⬆️ STEM knowledge and skills,why on earth stop subsidising laboratory technicians?! #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
From $4,000 to $21,000 — lab training in Tasmania could be a thing of the past
Tasmanian TAFE graduates worry as some locally taught courses that helped them forge a career may disappear as the cost to study them increases dramatically.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
There are always consequences to decisions that need to be thought through BEFORE making decisions. With an ageing population and ⬆️ health services demand plus the need for ⬆️ STEM knowledge and skills,why on earth stop subsidising laboratory technicians?! #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
This is occurring because Australia failed to plan for an ageing population. We are just at the start. Successive governments have tried to 'grow our way out of it' through economic growth, exacerbating the issue over the longer term (i.e.⬇️TFR) #politas #auspol
www.themercury.com.au/health/wellb...
www.themercury.com.au/health/wellb...
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is occurring because Australia failed to plan for an ageing population. We are just at the start. Successive governments have tried to 'grow our way out of it' through economic growth, exacerbating the issue over the longer term (i.e.⬇️TFR) #politas #auspol
www.themercury.com.au/health/wellb...
www.themercury.com.au/health/wellb...
The reality is that for all age groups apart from those 45 to 69 years, more people are leaving Tasmania than arriving here to live. Since 2021 on ave.13K arrive and 16K depart each year with a net loss of 2.7K. Whole families are leaving. The reasons are likely multifactor and personal. #politas
If the response to this is ‘let’s build a stadium’ I will scream 😱
We need systemic responses to systemic issues. Act with a sense of purpose.
#politas
Brain drain fears amid youth exodus from Tasmania www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
We need systemic responses to systemic issues. Act with a sense of purpose.
#politas
Brain drain fears amid youth exodus from Tasmania www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
www.themercury.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The reality is that for all age groups apart from those 45 to 69 years, more people are leaving Tasmania than arriving here to live. Since 2021 on ave.13K arrive and 16K depart each year with a net loss of 2.7K. Whole families are leaving. The reasons are likely multifactor and personal. #politas
If the response to this is ‘let’s build a stadium’ I will scream 😱
We need systemic responses to systemic issues. Act with a sense of purpose.
#politas
Brain drain fears amid youth exodus from Tasmania www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
We need systemic responses to systemic issues. Act with a sense of purpose.
#politas
Brain drain fears amid youth exodus from Tasmania www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
www.themercury.com.au
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If the response to this is ‘let’s build a stadium’ I will scream 😱
We need systemic responses to systemic issues. Act with a sense of purpose.
#politas
Brain drain fears amid youth exodus from Tasmania www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
We need systemic responses to systemic issues. Act with a sense of purpose.
#politas
Brain drain fears amid youth exodus from Tasmania www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...
Today at 4pm I’ll be chatting with David Reilly on ABC Drive @4ish to chat all things ‘climate refugee migration’ to Tasmania #politas
Hint - more Tasmanians move to Queensland that Queenslanders move to Tasmania.
I reckon there will be a few taswegians in QLD for the school hols, too #wishiwas 😊
Hint - more Tasmanians move to Queensland that Queenslanders move to Tasmania.
I reckon there will be a few taswegians in QLD for the school hols, too #wishiwas 😊
September 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Tasmania (and many Tasmanians) suffer from romanticism.
September 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Tasmania (and many Tasmanians) suffer from romanticism.
While anecdotal evidence that suggests that Tasmania is, and will be, a haven for climate 'refugees', there is little empirical evidence to support this notion. Migration is complex. More people move to other states than arrive here (except for NSW and NT) #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
September 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
While anecdotal evidence that suggests that Tasmania is, and will be, a haven for climate 'refugees', there is little empirical evidence to support this notion. Migration is complex. More people move to other states than arrive here (except for NSW and NT) #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...