The only geography on display here is the tenancy of the better heeled to dominate the up market market and better served, better resourced inner urban areas? And a perciveded ability to carry debt!?

The difference between Brisbane and Sydney, may have something to do with a larger population of horse and dog fanciers and hobby farm acreage, within reasonable commuting distance?

Conversely the opposite would seem to apply with, hand to mouth, post code poverty traps/bottom end of the housing market?

My bet would be, if one could simply swap these opposite income cohorts complete around?

It would only change each area into the other? As the expanded discretionary spend worked its magic on the depressed regional economy, and its almost complete lack transformed an up market suburb into the newest slum?

And that's all these graphs tell us plus the nonsense about being able to transition from a mainly manufacturing economy into one almost exclusively dependent on services?

And in the understanding and knowledge, we can't all be door openers! Geography, paleography.
Alan B.

Of course we can....and we're proving it...what other country can transition from something to nothing with such ease

what you do when you get there is another story