In all likelihood, Anthony Norman Albanese will be this country's last baby boomer prime minister.But he has now officially donned the cape of Youth Warrior, addressing himself to the unwinding of policies that for decades have plumped his own generation's asset sheets with tidy two-bedders, sure-fire flippers and solid family homes (close all facs, public transport).This moment has been coming for some time, as home ownership rates ebbed among the young and swelled among the old, and as the massed ranks of millennials and gen Zs eligible to vote gradually approached and then outnumbered baby boomers.Federal budget 2026: Stay up to date with the budget aftermath in our live blog.The prime minister was born into exceedingly modest circumstances, but like many in his cohort, he caught a few breaks over his lifetime.He received a free university education and caught the Sydney real estate wave at the right time And it is indeed an ambitious thing for a government to shut down tax breaks that have earned a great many people a great deal of wealth.What's steeled the prime minister, apart from his impatient treasurer, is the growing sentiment among younger generations (who are also the voters with the most elections in their future) that they are getting the rubber end of the real estate plunger