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Desperate parents believe it is safer for their children to go to boarding schools in Kenya or Uganda than live in some Melbourne suburbs.
Topics: immigration, crime, youth, parenting, melbourne-3000, south-sudan
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The stereotype of a dependent generation who won't leave home ignores the many reasons adult family members choose to live together in the one house.
Topics: consumer-finance, business-economics-and-finance, youth, community-and-society, housing, government-and-politics, banking, australia
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Topics: youth, byron-bay-2481
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It is easy to see the young people celebrating Schoolies as being focused entirely on hedonism. But if you ask questions about the future, you will find young people thinking about friendship, family and how to make a difference in the world.
Topics: youth, byron-bay-2481
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Budding young Perth composer Luis Santos pulls together a 160-piece orchestra to perform in a concert to raise funds to stage his won opera.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, opera-and-musical-theatre, youth, perth-6000
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| UpdatedTwo youths celebrating their high school graduation are taken to hospital after suspected drug overdoses south of Adelaide overnight.
Topics: schools, community-and-multicultural-festivals, youth, victor-harbor-5211, sa
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| UpdatedVanessa Vlajkovic was born legally blind and last year chose to exit the hearing world. Now the university student and avid cheerleader has been named WA's Young Person of the Year.
Topics: disabilities, youth, awards-and-prizes, perth-6000, wa
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Police expect to charge two men aged 18 and 19 with criminal damage after another disturbance at a Victorian youth justice centre.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, malmsbury-3446, vic, australia
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Topics: community-and-society, sexuality, health, diseases-and-disorders, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, youth, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA new study shows many young people feel confident about their condom use, despite often using them incorrectly and inconsistently.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, sexually-transmitted-diseases, sexual-health, youth, carnivals-and-festivals, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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While other teenagers were off celebrating Schoolies at the age of 17, Corey Fredrickson had other priorities — he was trying to find a place to live.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, homelessness, youth, christianity, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA teenager celebrating schoolies week on Queensland's Gold Coast is lucky to be alive after he fell while leaning over the balcony of an apartment in Surfers Paradise about 3:00am.
Topics: schools, community-and-multicultural-festivals, youth, accidents, surfers-paradise-4217, qld
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| UpdatedIf you're a young person about to enter the job market, the skills you have already may give you more job mobility than you think — as long as you're in the right "job cluster".
Topics: work, community-and-society, youth, education, university-and-further-education, australia
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Tiffany Davey's passion for educating young Australians has been taken to new heights since winning Heywire in 2012.
Topics: rural-youth, rural, community-and-society, youth, lifestyle-and-leisure, books-literature, yaraka-4702
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Grandparents taking care of their grandchildren is the fastest-growing area of home care, a family service provider says.
Topics: family, child-care, community-organisations, youth, carers, esperance-6450
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory ombudsman asks police for a briefing after a 12-year-old boy was tasered, as the Chief Minister describes the use of the stun gun as "not ideal at all".
Topics: crime, youth, police, darwin-0800, palmerston-0830
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Topics: secondary-schools, youth, relationships, burleigh-heads-4220
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| UpdatedIt started as a Schoolies hook-up between two teenagers in the 1980s and sparked a lifelong romance.
Topics: secondary-schools, youth, relationships, burleigh-heads-4220
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Topics: police, crime, crime-prevention, youth, yarrabah-4871
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One of Adelaide most notorious graffiti artist's talks anonymously to the ABC about why Australia's nanny state and regimented culture are a driving force behind rebellious vandalism.
Topics: community-and-society, street-art, youth, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedFour decades on from its first dance, Blue Light is more than just a disco.
Topics: youth, police, pop, 21st-century, crime-prevention, 20th-century, preston-3072, maldon-3463
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The Q&A panel debates whether young people have a powerful voice and an ability to create change.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-parliament, youth, world-politics, australia, united-states
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The executive director of the troubled Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville has left the position amid controversy over whether he resigned or was forced out.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedEvery Sunday morning at Don Dale, one of Australia's most controversial prisons, a former chef holds cooking classes in a bid to teach troubled youth basic life skills and connect with them over bubbling vats of spaghetti Bolognese.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, human, rehabilitation, social-policy, darwin-0800
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Rodeo is an unusual sport to teach in schools, but bucking bulls are being used by one Queensland college as a way of turning troubled teenagers back to their books.
Topics: youth, rural-youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-organisations, secondary