Play more, work less: CSIRO researcher

Australians need to work less, play more and stop buying junk if they want to achieve a more sustainable future, a leading CSIRO researcher says.

Speaking at the Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia conference in Townsville on Tuesday, CSIRO researcher Dr Graham Turner called for a lifestyle overhaul.

He said Australians needed a four-day working week and less consumption.

Advertisement: Story continues below "We need to use the efficiency dividends of technology to enrich our lives in ways that aren't based on material things," he said.

"It means spending more time with family and kids ... Elderly parents spending more time in the environment or on cultural things.

"Buying less things to fill our houses with, (like) plasma TVs, or more jet skis."
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