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recent youth news
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Artful conclusion to bus's rocky road: 4 months ago the sight of youths painting a bus at La Perouse might have inspired a triple-0 call smh.com.au 13/7/07
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One in six high-schoolers bullied: one in six students is bullied every week and one in every 10 students is a bully abc.net.au/news 11/7/07
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This man attacked me but I am not afraid: I will never know what possesses a man to grab a girl from behind, holding a box-cutter blade to her throat, as he drags her into a park, before bashing and choking her. I do, however, know what it feels like to be that girl smh.com.au 2/7/07
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Too busy studying to help at home: It is not laziness that explains why young people do so little housework - well, not entirely. Their lives are action-packed smh.com.au 28/6/07
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What Young People are Thinking: Report reveals positive picture of young Australians' life satisfaction & optimism about personal future dsf.org.au 30/4/07
* Young fatter but healthier: Youth healthier than 20 years ago, but mental disorders, eg. psychoactive substance use, schizophrenia & depression are half of all diseases smh.com.au 31/5/07 Media release & Report aihw.gov.au 30/5/07
* Children's fears, hopes and heroes - Modern childhood in Australia: the experiences of modern childhood through a survey of 600 young people aged 10 - 14 years childhood.org.au 6/07 -
Poor on fringes will be isolated as car costs rise: Low income families with poor public transport may have to sacrifice educational, sporting & social trips as car use becomes too expensive smh.com.au 28/6/07
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Charities the big winners in this year's race: Ambitious project by Father Chris Riley's Youth Off The Streets to build a $4million community youth centre in Macquarie Fields smh.com.au 24/6/07
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Too Much Video Gaming Not Addiction, Yet: US Medical Association backed off calling excessive video-game playing a formal psychiatric addiction smh.com.au 28/6/07 Is game addiction a mental disorder? smh.com.au 22/6/07
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Mental health services get a boost: Young people with mental illnesses will have access to more frontline services, with NSW government committing an additional $6 million smh.com.au 21/6/07
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Crime prevention programs get boost: Youth Conduct Orders to restrict the behaviour & movement of juveniles charged with or guilty of antisocial behaviour... $1.2 million to target beach hotspots to reduce alcohol-related & antisocial behaviour smh.com.au 19/6/07
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More power to you, student activists: In a cafeteria at Sydney Uni, 2 girls clamber onto a table during lunch & stand there topless smh.com.au 23/6/07
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Off the wall tactic in a bid to beat urban blight: Property owners, tired of scrubbing, hand over to muralists. Even hardware stores are offering discounts on paint to turn rebellious vandalism into vivid street art smh.com.au 9/6/07
* Don't shoot the Texta messengers: With names like Wisk, Revok, Panic & Oiler, they work in the dark above 6 lanes of freeway traffic, & their spray-can creations may last only a day smh.com.au 2/6/07 -
Teenage girls under attack: Something bad is happening to girls. Suddenly, the mental health of teenage and pre-teen girls is in the spotlight smh.com.au 2/6/07
* Hoochie's so horny you'd rather watch the send-up: ...scantily clad women are so mainstream that even ultimate hoochie-mama music group Pussycat Dolls have a reality show ... Yawn... smh.com.au 17/5/07
* Respect young women - they don't want to be like Paris: Of all the dangers to young Australians, the media has found an easy target... the spellbinding vacuousness of a tall thin blonde named Paris smh.com.au 21/6/07 -
Expect new censorship, if our privates enter the public domain: Australia has gated communities eg. Macquarie Links in Campbelltown & Pacific Lakes on the Central Coast... the New Rouse Hill will have a privately owned town centre "to ensure that 99% of people using the space are kept safe and unaffected by people who shouldn't be there" smh.com.au 6/6/07
* Bored and isolated teenagers run wild: Youth funding & facilities fail to keep pace with the influx of young families on Central Coast smh.com.au 2/6/07 -
A bullying culture begins at home: Benjamin Cox went from sweet, sporty kindy student at 5 to nerve-racked victim of bullying at 7, to the overweight, mentally ill shell of a man smh.com.au 17/5/07
* Beyond the finger on the trigger: What has driven so many school mass killers in USA and beyond - severe bullying smh.com.au 26/4/07 -
So many jailed, and the key of compassion thrown away: The subject of law and order and what we do with offenders comes up at every state election. That is exactly the wrong time. We need space and time for mature and well-informed debate on the issues. smh.com.au 14/5/07
* What goes in comes back out: Prisoners generally have a poor prognosis on release. smh.com.au 14/4/07 - NSW Labor Government promises for young people: The Labor Party won the NSW election in March 2007, so we thought we should summarise what they promised for young people 4/07
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Sex
* Indigenous teens have sex at 12: New Indigenous research shows two out of three sexually-active teens lost their virginity between 12 and 14 - or even younger smh.com.au 20/5/07
* Increase in cancer rates linked to oral sex: The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer also sharply increases the risk of throat cancer among people infected through oral sex. The findings provide new evidence that oral sex is not safe sex. smh.com.au 11/5/07
* Unplanned pregnancy- women veto counselling: Half of all Australian women have experienced an unplanned pregnancy - and most did not want to see a counsellor smh.com.au 19/4/07
* Sex ed fails to raise teen abstinence: Abstinence-only education programs meant to teach children to avoid sex until marriage fail to control their sexual behaviour theage.com.au 16/4/07
* Young women dice with unsafe sex: Young women are not heeding the safe sex message - three-quarters of the sexually active have had unprotected sex. smh.com.au 13/2/07 -
Obesity soars in adolescence: 13% of young Australians are extremely overweight and adolescence is the crucial time for gaining weight smh.com.au 7/5/07
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Look no further than '80s-born radio: FBi does not suffer from the tragic officialness of many Government youth projects and yet many of the announcers and musicians at FBi are young. smh.com.au 5/5/07
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Music takes another trip down the scapegoat road: It is too easy to blame the music. With news of the deaths of Melbourne teenagers Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier, the menace and melodrama of "emo" subculture became the latest target. smh.com.au 26/4/07 Bullying on teen's sad road to oblivion smh.com.au 28/4/07 Finding the silver lining beneath black eye shadow smh.com.au 28/4/07
