When it comes to the battle between Australia’s different generations over who has had it harder, the outcome, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.
It is debate that can fire up people of all ages around BBQs and dining tables across the nation. In all likelihood it probably won’t be settled within our collective lifetimes and will probably be a matter of debate for anthropologists a century from now.
But before we look at the comparative experience of Australia’s different generations, it’s worth noting that regardless of age demographic people are still people. Its easy to make gross
generalisation about various age demographics, but they are broadly speaking ultimately a product of their time.
If a group of people from Gen Y or Gen Z was magically born during the mid-1950s instead (the middle of the Boomer age demographic), in all likelihood they would have come out with roughly similar viewpoints to the broader Boomer community.
It’s equally true that if a gro...
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