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Articles on Young Australians

July 14, 2022

Labor promised a new committee of 15 young people to guide policy. So who gets picked, and how?

Lucas Walsh, Monash University

Too often, young people’s voices are sought in tokenistic or symbolic ways. Can Labor’s new youth engagement model do things differently?

February 21, 2022

Lucas Walsh, Monash University; Beatriz Gallo Cordoba, Monash University; Blake Cutler, Monash University; Cathy Waite, Monash University, and Masha Mikola, Monash University

Many young people are bleak about what the future holds - and this is having an impact on their plans to have children.

October 5, 2021

Candice Boyd, The University of Melbourne

Interviewees spoke of an expectation, starting in childhood, that when you grow up, you need to go to “the big smoke”.

Lucas Walsh
Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
Candice Boyd
ARC DECRA Fellow in Human Geography, The University of Melbourne
Blake Cutler
Researcher and PhD Candidate in Education, Monash University
Beatriz Gallo Cordoba
Research Fellow – Quantitative Data/Statistics, Monash University
Cathy Waite
Research Fellow at the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
Masha Mikola
Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University