The pandemic upended their rite of passage. Now, students are reimagining what it means to be young

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It covers the lead-up to maturity, says Professor Lucas Walsh, director of the Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, “that period of life from 18 to 24 ... of expectation, of trying things out, experimentation”. This bit of life has been “scrambled”. Walsh is tracking how this generation of Australians is faring, especially since data showed young people’s mental health was the hardest hit by isolation.