Youth
Kimberley convergence unpacks issues facing indigenous youth
The Blank Page Summit is a gathering near the Billard Aboriginal Community in the Kimberley Western Australia. Now in its......
Youth at NAIDOC
While Indigenous elders highlighted the need for young people to step up, the NAIDOC Family Fun Day took a lighter......
Promising new proposals to tackle Indigenous youth incarceration rates
20 years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous young people are still 28 times likelier......
Youth sues NSW government
18 year old Musa Konneh was strip searched and jailed before police realised he’d been falsely arrested. The police blame......
Mental health now the number one disability in young people
A new international study released today from the World Health Organisation and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute based in Melbourne,......
Young people stand up in NSW class action
In an Australian first, a class action has been launched today against the New South Wales government on behalf of......
Changes proposed for youth justice system
Advocates are urging the NSW government to improve services for the 420 young people held in Juvenile Justice systems, at......
Invisible homeless youth need to be counted
Today is Youth Homelessness Matters Day and the National Coalition for Housing is encouraging people living on the couches of......
The power of youth in the Middle East
Four months ago, a young Tunisian man set himself alight to protest the injustice of having his business confiscated by......
The kids aren’t all right: UNICEF says we must invest more in world’s adolescents
UNICEF launched its flagship report The State of the World’s Children 2011 over the weekend. In it, the peak United......