Young Muslim activists in Indonesia turn to faith to undertake the sacred task of protecting the natural world. This echoes the growing popularity of ‘green Islam’ as an important global youth agenda.
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Oral sex is common among young people. Protection from STIs is not.
Pursuing perfection is unnecessary and unrealistic.
Research from around the world showed how much children’s activity levels dropped during lockdowns.
I spoke to women about their experience of extended breastfeeding.
Addressing urgent and complex problems such as climate change involves research across the full spectrum of society – and that includes Australia’s young people.
They called for time to play and mental health support.
Many secondary school pupils regularly skip breakfast.
The routine of holding nativity plays and other Christian practices has led them to be viewed as part of British culture.
Some studies, but not all, suggest a deterioration in youth mental health.
Rates of full-time employment and pay relative to other workers have fallen for the latest generation of new workers. Yet the HILDA Survey shows their reported job satisfaction has risen.
Learning outdoors has benefits for children’s health, mood and social skills.
Children have been widely referred to as “vectors” of COVID-19.
These two groups bounced back more quickly in the jobs market than certain other groups, although they may still experience lasting consequences.
Instead of blaming young people for eating too many avocado toast breakfasts, we need a better understanding of the economy and society they are growing up in.
Interviewees spoke of an expectation, starting in childhood, that when you grow up, you need to go to “the big smoke”.
It seems things have shifted slightly since earlier in the pandemic. A growing proportion of people hospitalised with the Delta strain are aged in their 30s or 40s.
Young people were blamed for a low voter turnout in 2019. But it’s hasty to conclude they don’t care about democracy.
We talked to two political scientists to understand more about young people’s political preferences as Indonesia slowly gears up for the 2024 elections.
This generation faces wicked problems without simple, single solutions. We need to move beyond the short-term, issue du jour approach that has dominated government responses in recent decades.
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Lecturer in Government, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Researcher and PhD Candidate in Education, Monash University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
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Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Research Fellow – Quantitative Data/Statistics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science, University of Bedfordshire
