Generations in Dialogue about the Future
Australia 21 / Australian Youth Research Centre
This report brings different generations into conversation about the future, treating young people's views as central to public reasoning about social change.
What the paper argues
The report documents and reflects on intergenerational dialogue about future challenges. It treats the future not as something to be handed down to young people, but as something that should be discussed with them.
Its contribution is civic rather than narrowly academic: creating a structured space where generational experience, youth perspectives, and public questions about the future can meet.
Core contribution: Intergenerational dialogue as a civic method for thinking about shared futures
Why it matters
The report matters in the longer arc because it shows an early concern with futures, institutions, and public dialogue. Those concerns later reappear in work on technology, work, AI, and the design of social systems.
Public dialogue and the future
This early report sits behind the later public-facing work on technology transitions, institutional design, and the future of work.
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