If you title your first book Please Just F-off, It's Our Turn Now one might assume you are an over-zealous teenager desperate for attention. For 25-year-old Ryan Heath, you are simply being straightforward. He wants a whole generation of baby boomers in Australia to get out of the driver's seat.

They bought properties in their twenties, sailed through the luxuries of free education, bought four-wheel-drives and got great jobs at the drop of a hat. But now, Heath argues, baby boomers in Australia are taking all the good things in life, and sparing very little for those younger generations: generation X, generation Y and generation expat.

Heath believes the baby boomers have made it difficult for newer generations to gain the "cushy jobs" that baby boomers were spoon-fed when they were young.

"Boomers have had lucky timing throughout much of their lives. That timing has helped them build up assets and lead secure lives that young people today can only dream of."

So is Heath just a crazed activist yearning attention? Unlikely. Being grumpy is just not enough for Ryan Heath, who grew up in Coffs Harbour and studied Communications at University of Technology, Sydney. For two years now, Heath has been working in a number of different roles for the Blair Cabinet in London.

Moving overseas was not accidental for Heath. He sees himself as joining the large number of young expats who are seeking career challenges that Australia just doesn't offer.

"Our system works for some, but for me, I needed a more liberal atmosphere to thrive. I think if Australia were more inclusive and tried harder to retain young professionals the country would benefit as a whole. We are far more optimistic and resourceful than baby boomers. We know change is the only certainty we can look forward to and we see it as an opportunity."

Heath has recently gained media attention for his controversial book. He criticises the television industry for having stale faces and unmoving ideas.

"Our TV industry is clogged up with old faces with few new perspectives, even Bert Newton still has a show."

  Jonathan Biggins took the other side of the debate and also caused a stir. "The conservatism of the young poses a greater threat to those still on what is laughingly called the left than John Howard's move into the suburban fringes."

Unconvinced by Heath's call for baby boomers to move aside, Biggins describes him as "the latest in a line of angry young men stretching back to John Osborne."

Biggins is skeptical of "baby boomer" as a label. "It seems to be a category invented by advertisers who want to delineate demographics."

Mark Davis' book Gangland: The Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism also looks at the baby boomer generation.

"I'm more interested in the stasis of cultural formations and paradigms, to which baby boomers are said to contribute, but which they don't actually define," says Davis.

It is this stasis which Heath is angry about. "When I was home in Coffs Harbour last November on the day the new terror and industrial relations laws were introduced to Parliament, the first story on the news was about a budgie being saved by a robot from the collapsed Lane Cove flats. It's a disgrace. We need more voices, new voices, and we need them now."