Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young

A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia.

Today’s young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and poor widen over recent decades, we’re beginning to see young and old pull apart in ways that will wear at our common bonds.

It’s time to decide what kind of future we want for this country. Will it be one...