Australia's falling birth rate

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released new birth rate figures, showing that this country's birth rate is the lowest since 2006.  Births, Australia, 2013 indicates that Australia's total fertility rate fell from 1.93 in 2012 to 1.88 in 2013.  Conversely, the trend among older mothers, between 40 and 44 years, has shown increased fertility since the mid 1970's, almost tripling in the last 30 years.