Thanks Melanie for a very interesting article.

“…we are ready to boil over”

Well…I should hope so, given the awful future outlook presented to you young folk by a series of hopeless governments.

But I’m afraid I don’t see this purported great readiness to boil over. In fact to this old codger there seems to be a whole lot of blaséness out there in Gen Y land.

Crikey, profound changes are so desperately needed, and they’ve been as obvious as dog balls for at least a decade. So where’s the outrage from the 20 to 30-year old cohort of our population?? Where’s the passion? Where’s the fire within?

What does it take to get this generation politically, environmentally and socially activated?

How bad do things have to get? How bleak does our future have to look before our young intelligentsia clobbers the old guard?

Sorry Melanie, but it seems to me that the Y brigade is just as bad as the rest of apathetic Australia.

“As the biggest stakeholders in Australia’s future, with fresh and innovative insights to offer, young Australians deserve a genuine hearing.”

Yair they do. But they’ve got to want it in the first place. It seems that there are very few like yourself that are even mildly interested in this country’s predicament.

I’ve gotta agree with deargodimpostingonaforumwhathaveibecome,.

So here we have young Melanie, never left school, & is not intending to, by the look of it. Naive enough to fall for the global warming scam, & to quote Obama at us, she is still smart enough to have found a non job, sucking at the public teat.

It's about time we made a requirement of any uni course, a 2 year stint, working in private enterprise. At least girls like Melanie would have to get some idea fo what life is like for the real workers in Oz. It might actually pull their feet down to the ground, before they get ideas of grandeur, & a head full of self importance.

Yeah whatever, you Hasbeen, whatever.

Hasbeen,
I agree with you. The Melanie's of this world need to get some practical work and life experiences behind them before they can be taken seriously in any decission making process. Some of the decissions of so called adults are bad enough let alone input from those still wet behind the ears.

Looks like another $8 million wasted by the government on a silly forum.

Well I’d encourage you all the way Melanie. I hope we see more articles from you on this forum. We certainly need more passionate Gen Y people like yourself.

But unfortunately, the more I think about it, the worse Gen Y appears to be.

They are essentially just like past generations in their values and practices. But they are worse because it is now so bleedingly obvious that massive changes are needed….and that just continuing with business as usual is akin to social and economic suicide.

The vast majority of intelligent and energetic Yers (pronounced ‘wyers’) just go into jobs in which they can work up through the ranks and maximise their income and their profligacy, with scant little regard for the environment or the grossly unsustainable path that we are on.

This generation is much larger than the last and our degraded environment and resource base are much less able to take the pressure or meet the demand. So the overall damage being done is much greater than with past generations.

By goodness, Gen Y needs to change their ways massively and quickly. We can’t afford to wait for Gen Z to do this.

Ludwig posts blame everywhere other than at his sort's doorstep.
The old guard blames the next generation by identifying their faults; their following along the pathways of his own peer group's culpability.

This is the consummate age of greed and is personified by one set pointing the finger at the other.
Meanwhile the arch squeezer Turnbull bellows at Rudd and Rudd, beyond patience, needs justify his mandate to Turnbull.
Meanwhile Howard turns up once in a while and fuels the flames with his particular brand of superannuate senility.
A Great Nation, this.