If you believed everything that you read in the corporate media then you would think that all young people are apathetic and that Australian youth are the most apathetic in the world. This is what two recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald allege.
"Young people nowadays are simply not interested in politics", argued Ben Heraghty, in an article titled ``Youth needs to be seen, heard and inspired, politically'', which appeared in the March 13 Sydney Morning Herald. …
