The presenter and comedian’s live show feeds his obsession with the nation’s post-second world war suburban architecture
‘The government basically wanted everyone to move to the suburbs, get a mortgage and a mower, and then you wouldn’t become a communist.’
As families have gotten smaller over the last half-century, the houses we built just kept getting bigger.
At an average size of 2,303 square feet, Australia now leads the world in house size, well out in front of the other nations in the top five – New Zealand, the US, Canada and Denmark. Eaveless multi-storey homes pushing to the property’s very boundaries, built in greenfield sites stripped of all green, have been a feature of new satellite suburbs in our major cities for the past several decades.
