Only 80% of the 69,000 personnel needed to meet future challenges have signed up. The government recently announced recruitment will be opened up to some foreign citizens to try to fill this gap. Not only is the Australian military failing to achieve planned growth, it is actually shrinking, as defenceContinue Reading
Gen Z may have brutishly booted Millennials off of the top of the social food chain — a peak from which the domineering generation dictates everything from acceptable workplace emoji use to how wannabe fashionistas should wear their socks. But the tyrannical trendsetters now join their increasingly irrelevant elders asContinue Reading
An emerging Australian political party is writing serious cheques, demanding free university, no income tax for under 25s, net zero and nuclear power, and drug decriminalisation. And it’s hoping to get it done with an army of political social media influencers. The Gen Z Party emerged from the ether thisContinue Reading
Young Aussies in Sydney’s CBD were spotted looking lost and confused and even seen talking to each other thanks to the nationwide Optus outage. More than 10 million customers and 400,000 businesses were impacted after Optus’ mobile services went down at 4am AEDT on Wednesday after its core network sufferedContinue Reading
A viral trend of women sharing text messages from men has exposed a gross reality that is horrifyingly common. The TikTok trend is ironically called ‘sweet messages’; and women share the furthest thing from cute messages they’ve received. Social media trends typically start wholesome and sometimes become far more harrowing,Continue Reading
Gen Z Australians are saving hard to splash out on “once-in-a-lifetime” moments as part of a generational move to make up for time lost to the pandemic, according to the latest consumer survey from one of Australia’s biggest banks. NAB’s survey of 18-29 year-olds shows the cohort are more likelyContinue Reading
Young people have shared their deal breakers when accepting a job and their reasons for declining them are very specific. You usually hear the term ‘deal breaker’ when it comes to people discussing their romantic relationships. Everyone has their own separate caveat for why they won’t pursue someone romantically. ItContinue Reading
Gen Z are now in the workforce and are not playing by the Millennial, Gen X or boomer rules. Yes, it is time to feel old, confused and maybe slightly threatened. Our youngest workers are going viral on TikTok for creating havoc in the workplace by being so bloody casual.Continue Reading