Those young people of today, with their iPods and mobile phones, their tight-knit friendship groups and brief romances, their social activism and distrust of big-P Politics, their yearning for independence and need to conform … what’s really going on in their minds? Not much that sets them apart from the rest of mainstream Australia, or so it appears from Rebecca Huntley’s The World According to Y, where the author’s 18-to-25-year-old interviewees register with few exceptions as cheerful, pragmatic and keen to get on with their lives, however uncertain the future.