Freedom lost: the generation coming of age in Australia's pandemic-fuelled recession
Last modified on Tue 1 Dec 2020 19.08 EST What a year to come of age. To wander out of high school, or university, or Tafe, and into a world transformed by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. To be young in 2020 is to have watched on helplessly as the exciting new freedoms that come with a birthday, or graduation, were quickly but necessarily taken away: That first “night out”. The first road trip in the first car. For a generation of young Australians looking to their future, the wide vista of opportunities and possibilities they might have once counted on has dramatically narrowed with the a...
Source: theguardian.com