It has the satisfying parts of a love story however what if time and the pressures of life have pulled the Heelers in several instructions?
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Bandit and Chilli are someplace of their early to mid-40s: prime time for a mid-life disaster and, in accordance with the Australian Institute of Household Research, ripe for divorce. In 2021 the median age of divorce was 45.9 for males and 43.0 for females, and in Australia, the common divorce happens after 12 years of marriage.
Did Bandit cheat with a youthful pup? Is Chilli feeling stagnant and smothered by motherhood? Each theories are at odds with their character and the looks of a wholesome and love-filled marriage. However marital woes come for the strongest {couples}, and it might be Bluey’s subsequent frontier.
Bandit and Chilli are pulling Bingo and Bluey out of faculty to go travelling
Let’s pour water over the divorce rumours and lean right into a extra optimistic state of affairs. What if the Heelers are promoting the home to take a yr off to go travelling?
Bluey and Bingo are seven and 4, respectively. This places Bluey in grade one and her sister on the cusp of beginning prep. Whereas they’ve missed the perfect boat to journey earlier than the youngsters begin correct education, maybe the futility of life and present state of the world has impressed a YOLO (or, ought to I say, FIDLAR) second from the Heeler dad and mom.
Possibly they’re going to money in on the home sale, purchase a caravan and take the women round Australia, thumbing by means of a home-school curriculum from a campground in Alice Springs or beachfront in Exmouth. Maybe they’re mad sufficient to take two younger youngsters on a whirlwind journey overseas.
Bandit and Chilli each vacationed at caravan parks once they have been children and met whereas travelling, so it’s not unbelievable that they is perhaps itching for a break from life’s monotony. It could even be a intelligent plot system, permitting the present to discover different cultures and locations, significantly given its reputation with abroad audiences.
Since launching in 2018, Bluey has been exported to 60 nations, and in 2023, was essentially the most streamed youngsters’s present in America.
Bandit has been hit by college finances cuts and made redundant
The Heelers’ vocations exemplify the present’s skill to carry dad and mom and older viewers in on the joke. Bandit is an archaeologist with experience digging up bones, and Chilli works in airport safety, presumably as a sniffer canine. However may Bluey’s dad be dealing with a redundancy?
It’s recommended that Bandit’s job was impressed by one of many creator’s brothers, who’s an archaeologist at Griffith College. So for all intents and functions, let’s assume Bandit additionally works in academia.
It’s no secret Australian universities suffered on account of the pandemic. A report from the Queensland Audit Workplace launched final yr confirmed working outcomes for the state’s universities decreased by $1.3 billion in 2022-23 due to lowered federal funding, losses on investments as a result of a decline in market circumstances, and continued price escalations.
One Brisbane college has reportedly let as much as 300 workers go in recent times, with some establishments estimating deficits into 2026. Primarily based on this evaluation, there’s each likelihood Bandit’s division has misplaced funding and a redundancy is on the playing cards.
Or to take a extra optimistic view, given Brisbane isn’t precisely fertile floor for digging materials or human stays, perhaps Bandit has merely been supplied a greater gig; a two-year contract with a newly fashioned excavation crew within the English countryside or on a distant Greek island. Good for him.
Bandit and Chilli are hanging whereas the property market is scorching
The precise location of the Heeler house is undisclosed, however followers confidently put it in Paddington, certainly one of Brisbane’s most sought-after suburbs.
The Heeler household: Bluey (backside proper), with sister Bingo and fogeys Bandit and Chilli.
Brisbane home costs rose 3.7 per cent to a median of $888,285 within the December quarter and homes within the metropolis now prime $1 million in additional than 60 suburbs. In Paddington, the median worth for a three-bedroom home is about $1.7 million.
Within the wake of the foreboding sale signal, some have recommended the Heelers may make greater than $6 million from the sale of the heritage property if its Paddington location is appropriate. That may additionally financial institution on metropolis views and a stable yard.
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The estimated additional bit of money within the household piggy financial institution opens up any variety of relocation alternatives: an even bigger home in one other Brisbane suburb, land on the Sunshine Coast hinterland, or a sea change someplace on the east coast.
A much bigger home would play neatly into probably the most fashionable fan theories getting round: that the Heeler household is rising. There might be half a litter on the way in which, and that quaint three-bedder just isn’t going to chop it.
It’s onerous to get contained in the Heelers’ heads, primarily as a result of they aren’t an actual household. And whereas it feels extremely unlikely probably the most fashionable youngsters’s applications in latest reminiscence is getting minimize, we’ll have to attend till Sunday for the decision.
