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Young people are not after an easy ride, just job security

  • Written by Dan Woodman, TR Ashworth Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
imageYoung people want the same thing as their older counterparts when it comes to work.Acumen_/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Young people don’t know how good they’ve got it. They expect the best, they expect it now, and they don’t expect to work too hard to get it. At least, that’s what Treasurer Scott Morrison is worried about.

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