Dimensions
156 x 235 x 14mm
Australia: watch out! This is a snapshot of the generational change that is coming. A call to generational battle not seen since the 1960s. Ryan Heath, a twenty five year old writes about his generation – young people in their twenties who he says are very different to Baby Boomers and Generation X. Like many of his generation, Ryan Heath has had a gutful of the same bunch of Boomers still hogging all the good jobs and holding Australia back. He says: Enough is enough – it's time for a generational change or Australia will slide into decline. He pulls no punches when it comes Aussie sacred cows and institutions – Fairfax, the ABC, and the ALP particularly.
Ryan asserts that his generation is very different to Boomers and X-ers. They maybe smaller in number but are more diverse, better educated, more socially responsible, switched on to new technologies and believe in working through networks rather than hierarchies. According to Ryan Heath, Australian public life has ignored the energy and ideas of younger people leading to mediocrity and decline here, and an exodus of hundreds of thousands of talented young people like himself to take up opportunities overseas, where younger people are given positions of responsibility and where generations share more fairly.
In a style that is controversial, passionate and with humour, this is an enjoyable and provocative read in the tradition of Mike Moore. A must read for Generation Y and X but also for Boomers who will love to hate Heath's criticisms and mockery of them.
