Australian Generations Oral History Project

This is the first major national project to investigate intergenerational dynamics and the impact of dramatic social, technological and environmental changes on the experiences and attitudes of succeeding Australian Generations. 

The national scope of our project will advance understanding of the diversity of Australian historical experience within groups and over time. We propose an original and significant historical interrogation of assumptions about Australian Generations.

We will question and complicate the commonly accepted Australian generational ascriptions of Builders (born c. 1925-46), Baby Boomers (c. 1947-64), Generation X (c. 1965-79) and Generation Y (c. 1980-94) (McCrindle 2009), and explore questions neglected in survey research about the interactions and overlaps between generations, and the ways in which class, gender, ethnicity, race and region inflect with and cut across age and generation.

 We are currently seeking men and women born in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, post-war migrants and people who haven’t attended university.

Click on the orange headphones on the right of your screen to register your interest in participating in Australia’s largest oral history digital time capsule!

Find out more about the project

Read about the project in the UK’s Oral History Journal

Listen to a teaser from the pilot project here (mp3)

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