Australia’s economy has become a young people-screwing machine. So how do we unscrew ourselves?

Millennials and younger generations are on the brink of outnumbering older cohorts as the largest voting bloc. Living in a democracy affords us the power to change the system.
No one woke up one fine morning with the grand ambition to mess with an entire generation just for kicks. Yet here millennials are, unequivocally, unmistakably, screwed.
This is evident when I compare my 29-year-old self to my mother who had it all: debt-free, married, two kids and a stable home sweet home. Meanwhile, I’ve stacked up four uni degrees, struggle to pay off debt, live paycheck to paycheck, and burn the midnight oil 16 hours a day, seven days a week just to prove ... well, something. Hats off to mother dear, but seriously, does this seem fair? And you’ll hear the same tune from most of my millennial crew.