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| UpdatedThe number of syphilis cases reported in the NT jumps from 14 in 2012 to 229 last year, with doctors warning with young people and pregnant women are most at risk.
Topics: sexual-health, youth, reproduction-and-contraception, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt
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| UpdatedSigns are being installed around Wilcannia in far-west New South Wales in an effort to increase visibility of Indigenous perspectives of the town.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-culture, community-and-society, youth, schools, history, education, travel-and-tourism, wilcannia-2836
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| UpdatedPolice continue to investigate the circumstances that led to two teenage boys being struck and killed as they walked along the Stuart Highway in the early hours of Saturday.
Topics: accidents---other, death, youth, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedMeet Harry Miller, a former Hawthorn footballer and now the coach of a junior Indigenous team set to make their mark at the AFL Diversity Championships in April.
Topics: australian-football-league, youth, sport, community-and-society, port-lincoln-5606
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| UpdatedThe only Australian tall ship to sail in the 1988 First Fleet re-enactment voyage for Australia's bicentenary celebrates 30 years on the water.
Topics: community-organisations, community-and-society, history, youth, adelaide-5000, sa, port-adelaide-5015, port-lincoln-5606
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| UpdatedPlans for a new academy for gifted kids in Victoria would help many students thrive, writes Erin Stewart. But for others, selective schools can be pressure cookers.
Topics: schools, teachers, bullying, children, youth, australia
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Holding their breath underwater is still proving a challenge, but two Gold Coast boys are bucking the stereotype by joining a junior synchronised swimming squad.
Topics: synchronised-swimming, youth, olympics-summer, sport, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA cursory review of the 'student safety' pages on Australian university websites reveals many unis are still teaching "don't get raped" rather than "don't rape".
Topics: sexuality, youth, university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, australia
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A school in Newcastle is teaching students how to fly drones as part of the curriculum.
Topics: photography, film-movies, surfing, education, subjects, community-and-society, youth, merewether-2291, jesmond-2299
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| UpdatedKristy Steenhuis and Jane Fitzgibbon would not recognise each other on the street, but they share the kind of bond you would not wish on your worst enemy. Suicide.
Topics: suicide, youth, community-and-society, mental-health, rural-youth, health, depression, family-and-children, ballarat-3350, ellerslie-3265, warrnambool-3280
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| UpdatedCricket is not just Australia versus England. There are many teams playing without Test status, many from developing countries and all with a passion for the game.
Topics: community-and-society, sport, cricket, international-competitions, youth, bendigo-3550, philippines, samoa, indonesia, japan, fiji, vanuatu
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Topics: hospitality, secondary-schools, youth, darwin-0800
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A 15-year-old is arrested is arrested over a his suspected involvement in a home invasion and an assault on an 87-year-old woman.
Topics: crime, youth, alice-springs-0870
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Teenage detainees at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon prison have been pinned down in their cells, punched and kicked by adult prison guards, human rights lawyers claim.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, crime, judges-and-legal-profession, human, anakie-3221, vic
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