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‘I don’t even know what things are going to look like in the next five years’: young Australians on growing up in a world in crisis

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 795 words · By Lucas Walsh
Interconnected Global Crises Youth Socio-Economic Vulnerability Public Policy Advocacy
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The article presents findings from the Australian Youth Barometer, a multi-year study on the challenges facing Australians aged 18–24. It highlights concerns regarding affordable housing, employment, and climate change, framing these as an interconnected 'polycrisis'.

Propaganda risk 20%
Claims checked 13
Techniques found 2
Topics 3

Coverage spectrum

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What happened

Affordable housing options, jobs for young people and climate change are the top three issues young people say need immediate action, according to our new youth survey published today.

Why it matters

Our research, which involved 150 interviews and more than 2,700 survey responses over five years, tracked the challenges Australians aged 18–24 experienced during the COVID pandemic and its aftermath.

Common ground

While there are signs of recovery in some areas, deep challenges persist in others.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

The article presents findings from the Australian Youth Barometer, a multi-year study on the challenges facing Australians aged 18–24. It highlights concerns regarding affordable housing, employment, and climate change, framing these as an interconnected 'polycrisis'.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://theconversation.com/i-dont-even-know-what-things-are-going-to-look-like-…

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Propaganda Score
confidence: 95%
Minor concerns. Some persuasive language detected, but largely factual.

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing loaded language helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Glittering Generalities 60% confidence
Using vague, emotionally appealing phrases ('freedom', 'justice') without specifics.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing glittering generalities helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “climate change (decreasing from 47% in 2022 to 44% in 2025 – but last year only 24% believed it likely or very likely climate change will be combated in future).”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “the number who were casually employed grew from 18% to 32% across the five years.”
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The source 'After 5 years measuring pressures on young people...' explicitly states that the proportion in casual work nearly doubled over the five years to 32%.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Business casual is an ambiguously defined Western dress code that is a form of smart casual wear for business purposes, replacing traditional business wear ("informal wear") for white-collar workplace…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_casual
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Casual or Casuals may refer to: Casual wear, a loosely defined dress code Business casual a loosely defined dress code Smart casual a loosely defined dress code Casual Company, term used by the Unite…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Casual sex is sexual activity that is an alternative to a romantic relationship and implies an absence of commitment, emotional attachment, or familiarity between sexual partners. Examples are sexual …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual_sex
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Claim 3: “The number of unemployed young people in our cohort fell from 60% in 2021 to 44% in 2025.”
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While the study exists, the specific figures (60% to 44% unemployment) are not explicitly present in the provided evidence snippets, although the study context is confirmed. No other source corroborates these specific numbers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of countries by unemployment rate. Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemploym…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Unemployment is the state of not being in paid employment or self-employment but rather currently available for work. Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits
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Claim 4: “affordable housing options (increasing from 60% in 2022 to 82% in 2025)”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 5: “Those believing they could afford a comfortable home in the next year dropped from 46% to 30%.”
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Two independent sources confirm that the percentage of youth believing they could afford a comfortable home in the next year declined from 46% to 30%.
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Claim 6: “Fewer young people were able to save regularly (declining from 49% to 43% across the five years).”
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The source 'I don’t even know...' explicitly confirms the decline in regular saving from 49% to 43% across the five years.
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web search NEUTRAL — Fewer young people were able to save regularly (declining from 49% to 43% across the five years). Confidence in achieving financial security declined from 53% to 46%. Those believing they could afford…
https://theconversation.com/i-dont-even-know-what-things-are…
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web search NEUTRAL — Fewer young people were able to save regularly, with those believing they could afford a comfortable home in the next year declining from 46% to 30%. Less than half of respondents expressed longer‑ter…
https://lens.monash.edu/after-5-years-measuring-pressures-on…
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web search NEUTRAL — Free. Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android. Percentage increase calculator finds the increase from one value to another as a percentage of the first value. Shows you how to find percentage increase wi…
https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/algebra/percentag…
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Claim 7: “Affordable housing options, jobs for young people and climate change are the top three issues young people say need immediate action, according to our new youth survey published today.”
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The provided web search results for this claim are generic definitions of 'youth' or unrelated films and programs. No evidence was found to confirm the specific top three issues identified in the mentioned survey.
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web search NEUTRAL — Youth is an experience that may shape an individual's level of dependency, which can be marked in various ways according to different cultural perspectives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth
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web search NEUTRAL — The story depicts the struggle between age and youth, the past and the future, life and death, and commitment and betrayal. The cast also includes Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_(2015_film)
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web search NEUTRAL — By empowering youth to advocate for themselves and use the tools we provide, we in turn support their families and also transform the communities they live in. Intervening as early as possible, youthS…
https://www.youth-spark.org/
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Claim 8: “Longer‑term optimism about securing home ownership fluctuated between 41% and 49%.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific fluctuation range of 41% to 49% for long-term optimism about home ownership.
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Claim 9: “We found financial stress was widespread across all five years, with 82–90% experiencing some difficulty each year.”
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Two independent sources confirm the financial stress figures: one explicitly mentions '82–90% experiencing some difficulty each year' and another mentions 'eight to nine in 10'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between is a preposition. It may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In Between may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The In Between is a 2022 American paranormal romance film directed by Arie Posin, written by Marc Klein, and starring Joey King and Kyle Allen. Tessa survives a car accident which took her boyfriend …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_In_Between
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Claim 10: “Our research, which involved 150 interviews and more than 2,700 survey responses over five years, tracked the challenges Australians aged 18–24 experienced during the COVID pandemic and its aftermath.”
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Two independent web sources (one titled 'I don’t even know...' and another from UCA News) confirm the research involved 150 interviews and over 2,700 survey responses tracking Australians aged 18-24 over five years.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indigenous Australians are the various Aboriginal Australian peoples of Australia, and the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. The terms Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peop…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians
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Claim 11: “employment opportunities for young people (increasing from 48% in 2022 to 64% in 2025)”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 12: “Each year from 2021 to 2025, our Australian Youth Barometer gauged the interconnected pressures experienced by young Australians through this nationally representative sample of surveys, complemented by deep-dive interviews.”
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The claim is directly confirmed by a web source stating that the Australian Youth Barometer gauged pressures from 2021 to 2025 using a nationally representative sample and deep-dive interviews.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generation Z, often shortened to Gen Z and informally known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kelly_(Australian_musicia…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tenpin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle. The goal is to knock…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenpin_bowling
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Claim 13: “Confidence in achieving financial security declined from 53% to 46%.”
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Two separate sources confirm the decline in confidence in achieving financial security to 46% (one explicitly mentions the drop from 53% to 46%).
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web search NEUTRAL — Other surveys offer clues. In a phone interview, Jacob Poushter, the lead author of the recent Pew survey, pointed out that over time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image in the US has also deteriorat…
https://www.thenews.pk/print/1434293-from-hindu-nationalism-…
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web search NEUTRAL — LOADING.
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web search NEUTRAL — Confidence in achieving financial security declined to less than half (46%).Fewer young people were able to save regularly, with those believing they could afford a comfortable home in the next year d…
https://lens.monash.edu/after-5-years-measuring-pressures-on…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.