Talk about delayed gratification – data from the 2021 Census has just dropped, and here are some quick takes… In some bad news for God, we’re a less religious nation. For the first time, fewer than half of us identify as Christian, but it’s still the dominant religion, with 43.9% of Aussies identifying as believers. And maybe it was a mood driven by pandemic lockdowns, but 38.9% said they have no religion, up from 30.1% in 2016. The fastest-growing religions are Hinduism (2.7%) and Islam (3.2%). The first points to the increase in the number of people saying they were born in India – they make up almost a quarter of the 1 million people who moved to Australia since the last Census. As for our age – Millennials (born between 1981-95) and Boomers (1946-65) are level-pegged as the biggest groups, accounting for 21.5% of Australia’s 25.5 million residents each. The latter group does a lot of caring for children, while the former embraces individuality in life and at work. One thing that hasn’t changed – Millennial women are unlikely to ever earn as much as their male counterparts…