Helen Smith

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983 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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The Briefing · BONUS: Is the 'Australian dream' just for the wealthy? · 23 May 2026 podcast

You put in effort and you'll kind of like reap the benefits.

And it's this clash where the millennial son is like, I followed your recipe, dad.

I did everything you told me to do.

And it just simply doesn't work.

So it's really that millennials coming to grips with the idea that the meritocracy just doesn't exist anymore and the recipe doesn't work.

Yeah, look, when I first started writing the film, like I kind of had a sense that things were bad.

And then when you actually like dig into the taxation policy, it was a bit horrifying actually in terms of like how lopsided things are and how the game is rigged in a lot of ways.

So yeah, it was shocking on that level.

And then the other thing that's really changed is

is that I started writing it in 2021.

And I think that the housing crisis has just kind of like gone on steroids since then.

Like it's got exponentially worse.

So almost like the Baby Boomer characters are portrayed as like, they're pretty harsh, really.

But I feel like the Baby Boomer sentiment has shifted to have more sympathy towards millennials.

in the time since when I started writing it and now it coming out because it has gotten so much worse.

Like back in 2021, you could still see avocado on toast articles in the newspaper.

I feel like they don't really fly anymore.

I mean, look, it's part of it and it is like, I think that frustration is becoming so loud and so undeniable that it is shifting the conversation politically and it has kind of like opened up this kind of potential, which we've just seen on Budget Night, for kind of taxation reform to try and like correct it.

And look, it's going to take a really long time, but I think that rage has kind of translated into actual policy change.

in part because millennials and Gen Zs are such a big voting block now that, yeah, we outnumber baby boomers.

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