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youth
National affairs
Are we there yet?
Dean Ashenden
28 March 2025
At last, the Gonski money — which raises a new set of questions
Books & arts
Pleasure and intimacy
Alecia Simmonds
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
International
Trump’s generation gap
Lesley Russell
8 September 2020
Young voters look like playing a bigger role than usual in this year’s election
National affairs
Three years later, the Territory’s post–Don Dale reforms are faltering
Russell Marks
11 September 2019
After a burst of youth justice initiatives, Michael Gunner’s Labor government has lost momentum
Essays & reportage
Looking for trouble
Margaret Simons
18 May 2018
Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs”
Essays & reportage
“Okay. Let’s make some music”
Peter Mares
22 January 2018
Youth homelessness is more than a question of affordable accommodation. A new project shows how music can play an unexpected role
National affairs
Unlocking Indigenous incarceration
Robert Milliken
31 July 2015
Governments have ignored a new report exposing appalling rates of young Indigenous people in detention, writes
Robert Milliken.
But a new response is attracting growing support
National affairs
Reckless beyond words?
Andrew Leigh
12 May 2015
Andrew Leigh
takes a data-driven look at what the critics say about young Australians
Essays & reportage
Two suburbs, 167 lives: how the Life Chances study turned twenty-one
Melissa Sweet
8 October 2012
In 1990 a team of researchers began tracking a group of babies born in two inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their latest results paint a complex picture of obstacles, opportunities and…