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Generation Y

Young climate change warriors

Young people care about issues that affect their future and they plan to do something about it, writes Lucille Sadek.

Is dating out-dated?

First date formality has been made redundant by the winky face emoticon for young people today, writes Rikki-Lee Burley.

Generation ‘Me’

Generation Y think mortgages are too big of a burden. Renting and travelling seem to be the way to go, writes Louise Bianco.

Young climate change warriors

Young people care about issues that affect their future and they plan to do something about it, writes Lucille Sadek.

Is dating out-dated?

First date formality has been made redundant by the winky face emoticon for young people today, writes Rikki-Lee Burley.

Generation ‘Me’

Generation Y think mortgages are too big of a burden. Renting and travelling seem to be the way to go, writes Louise Bianco.

more from Generation Y

The emoji-pocalypse

80 per cent of the population uses emojis. Lucille Sadek asks if it’s affecting our communication skills.

Young climate change warriors

Young people care about issues that affect their future and they plan to do something about it, writes Lucille Sadek.

Is dating out-dated?

First date formality has been made redundant by the winky face emoticon for young people today, writes Rikki-Lee Burley.

Generation ‘Me’

Generation Y think mortgages are too big of a burden. Renting and travelling seem to be the way to go, writes Louise Bianco.

Death of a dialect

Are acronyms and abbreviations obliterating the English language? Stephanie Azzopardi finds out.

Spare us the rhetoric

The poor behaviour of barely-legal teens attending Schoolies is not a new phenomenon, writes Liam Quinn.

Gen (wh)Y: saving the lost generation

As Gen Y kids will soon become adults; they will either be saviours of the world, or the lost generation. Marcella Purnama reflects on life as a Gen Y-er.

It shouldn’t take an earthquake

It’s been reported that young New Zealanders are doing a great job cleaning up after last week’s devastating natural disaster. But as Sarah Green writes, it shouldn’t take an earthquake for young people to receive some positive press.

Inside & online: Y it’s the new generation of travellers

Have we seen the end of worn shoes, large backpacks and torn Lonely Planet guides? These days, as Luke S.H. Raggatt discovers, it’s all about laptops, luggage and luxury in the age of the ‘flash-packer’ revolution.

Homer the great binge drinker

What if the answers to this generation’s behaviour lay in episodes of The Simpsons? With remote in hand, Sam Drummond takes stock of his life during the morning after the night before.

The little Aussie battler that could

The Australian dollar is still climbing. Whilst economists are talking about trade deficits and advantageous foreign investment, Ryan Jon discusses the impact our strengthening currency may have on student life.

The challenge of connecting with Generation Y

As we face one of the biggest debates of our time, Tiger Woods is all over the front pages of newspapers. In this age of consumer-generated news, Sam Drummond argues that many Gen-Yers can’t see the forest for the trees.

In defence of Gen-Y girls

“If everything the media said about Gen-Y was posted on my dating profile, I would never get asked out,” says Isabel Robinson. So is Gen-Y being unfairly characterised? And why are young women becoming less happy with their lives?

A new audience…and a new follower.

Just like upstart’s latest follower on Twitter, I’ve realised that I erred in judgment this week, by concluding that the newest social media phenomenon had the ultimate power to deliver a mass audience to to our fledgling publishing endeavour. Apparently, that’s only partially true.

Breaking the Gen Y stereotype

Generation Y has been labelled everything from unmotivated slackers to a selfish, pragmastic and trend-conscious bunch of pompous punks. But according to Mark Basile, it is the conservative and materialistic society which has created the Yers – and it’s time to put an end to the stereotypes.