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By Trish Bolton, published 21/6/2006Move over Baby Boomers, it’s time to let someone else drive the car.
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"Baby Boomers is a term commonly applied to people with birth years from the span 1945 to 1964."
It is interestin the overtime the population covered by the term "Baby Boomer" has now come to encompass more than a decade. Originally, the term referred to the pre-1950s baby boom occurring, when the soldiers came home from WWII. (There is also spike in the 1970s, when BB's children started families.)
The born in 1950s generation has had to deal with wake of the "real" BBs: e.g., inflation pushing up prices.
The 1950s born generation were young in the 1960s, and, that has left an influence of this progressive group, wherein, the World of Winston Churchill and the Cooee March were pushed aside. Technology and social reform were high their agenda. Progress in both areas has been astonishing over the past 30 years.
In the 1960/70s, it was much, much harder to gain access to university. First, there fewer places. Second, one couldn't study part-time at university, because the classes were held almost exclusively in the daytime. TAFE was the only option.
Back then (late 60s) juniors' wages a proportion of adult wages was very low. A suburban Bank Manger would earn ten times the salary of a dishonours clerk. It was very hard to save a deposit for a home, because a 25% deposit was needed before a Bank would even consider an application. In the 60s and 70s, very few twenty-somethings could afford to go on holiday trips together, as today. No money. (Maybe, a few days at Gold Coast)
Perhaps, today parents might subsidise an oveseas trip. Back then a struggling 19 year old might have needed to borrow money from Mum or Dad to buy a weekly train ticket to go to work. A teenager with a car? You must be joking!