Social media has lit up with Aussie millennials furious over suggestions young people should give up the weekly brunch plate in order to save up for a home deposit. Photo / Jason Oxenham
Social media has lit up with Aussie millennials furious over suggestions young people should give up the weekly brunch plate in order to save up for a home deposit. Photo / Jason Oxenham
The avocado industry has defended the right of young people to chow down on a plate of smashed avo amid an intergenerational debate over housing affordability.
"I'm glad they're eating avocados, at least they have the good sense of putting something nutritious down their throats," Avocados Australia chair Jim Kochitold AAP.
Social media has lit up with Aussie millennials furious over suggestions young people should give up the weekly brunch plate in order to save up for a home deposit.
Demographer Bernard Salt kicked off the debate when he questioned if young people should be eating out frequently.
"Shouldn't they be economising by eating at home? How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house," he wrote in The Australian.
