Australia’s widening generational gap of wealth and inequality could reach record levels within years, suggests recent research. This tension is playing out in national debates over the budget and the housing crisis, as well as provocative new books and films taking aim at baby boomers.
But centuries ago, Anglo–Irish politician Edmund Burke painted a very idealistic picture of the generational social contract. He described society as a partnership not only among the living, but between those who are living, dead and yet to be born.
