DOWNSHIFTERS
"Research by the Australia Institute shows that nearly one person in four between the ages of 30 and 60 has, in the past 10 years, voluntarily taken a pay cut - by changing career, reducing work hours or stopping work altogether - in exchange for a better lifestyle. And that's excluding those moving into planned retirement. And while the largest single determining factor in the shift was to spend more time with family, the statistics do not include women who have taken time out after giving birth."

Among the downshifters is Anglican bishop Philip Huggins who recently quit his episcopal position to become a parish priest, allowing him to spend more time with his teenage sons (less travel).

Them Aussies seem to know what they're doing.