So this is the Silent Generation? Let me give you an earful
Opinion
Ageing

So this is the Silent Generation? Let me give you an earful

Spare us the ageist labels. Why not Generation V,for vital?

  • byAnne Ring

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Little goblins:Why are Melbourne scene kids wearing designer rags?

Little goblins:Why are Melbourne scene kids wearing designer rags?

The “trash chic renaissance” is upon us,and it’s all about embracing sustainability and rejecting perfection.

  • byTara Kenny
It’s time to suck it up and face facts:all Millennials are now old
Opinion
Opinion

It’s time to suck it up and face facts:all Millennials are now old

There comes a point when each generation must accept it is no longer relevant to any serious discussion of what is trendy.

  • byMichael Koziol
‘A half-carat isn’t going to cut it’:The Millennials sparking a diamond revolution

‘A half-carat isn’t going to cut it’:The Millennials sparking a diamond revolution

Would you still covet a diamond if it had been grown in a lab? Welcome to the debate dividing the jewellery world and brides alike.

  • bySian Powell
Don’t blame boomers
Letters
Letters

Don’t blame boomers

Boomers own over half of Australia’s wealth,which is,often unknowingly,supporting fossil fuels.

What Millennials value more than Boomers
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Sociology

What Millennials value more than Boomers

New research found Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation put more weight on traditional values,while Gen Y and Z were more likely to value creativity,innovation,entrepreneurship,achievement and intellectualism.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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OK,Boomers,move aside for the Millennials’ reign

OK,Boomers,move aside for the Millennials’ reign

The 2021 census shows that for the first time the Baby Boomer proportion of the population and the Millennial proportion are equal.

  • byShane Wright,Carla Jaeger andAngus Thomson
The other affair in Conversations with Friends

The other affair in Conversations with Friends

The homes in Sally Rooney’s novel-turned-TV-series illuminate the gulf between the lives the characters want and the lives they have.

  • byEliza Brooke
Are we destined for multiple loves? Millennials think we are

Are we destined for multiple loves? Millennials think we are

Conversations with Friends is sparking,well,conversations about traditional relationship structures and whether they’re still relevant today.

  • byLauren Ironmonger
Have three kids! Can China’s new edict reverse the fallout from its one-child policy?

Have three kids! Can China’s new edict reverse the fallout from its one-child policy?

For four decades,couples in China were told to have only a single child. They’re now being encouraged to have three – but not everyone’s listening.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
WeWon’t:Why Gen Z is shunning a cult-like allegiance to work

WeWon’t:Why Gen Z is shunning a cult-like allegiance to work

Attitudes to work by younger colleagues could not be more different to those of their predecessors,especially the ones portrayed in two recent TV series.

  • byAmelia Lester