Footy great turned radio star Stephen Rowe blasts young Aussies for being too selfish and addicted to social media to have babies Stephen Rowe played for the Adelaide Crows Australia's fertility rate is now the lowest on record By Duncan Evans For Nca Newswire and James Cooney For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:27 EDT, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 00:35 EDT, 17 October 2024 e-mail View comments A former AFL player and radio star has unloaded on Gen Z and millennial Aussies, branding them 'selfish' for not having children, with his unscripted rant baffling his co-host. Former Adelaide Crows star Stephen Rowe let loose on Adelaide's 5AA on Wednesday after broadcaster Stacey Lee read out Australian Bureau of Statistics data that revealed Australia's birthrate had slumped to just 1.5 children per woman.
'That just tells me how selfish our society is,' he said. 'Back in my day, you fell in love with a beautiful woman. You kept a full-time job, you had some fun at night, you had a baby.
'You either rented or bought a house. You worked hard, actually turned up to work and worked hard. Built a life and a family together and everything else was insignificant.
'Nowadays, I've got to have the holiday, the Instagram account, I've got to have the clothes and I've got to go to the Adelaide Cup, the Melbourne Cup, the this cup. I see it in my kids.' Lee interjected and said younger Australians could not afford housing, which she said was the real cause of the sharp fall-off in family form.
