Adolescence is supposed to be the healthiest of times in our lives. But open any newspaper and you’re likely to find an article about the health problems of today’s youth. Whether it’s drugs or alcohol-fuelled…
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Life is unpredictable. Individual lives are complicated and this seems to be a problem for policy makers. It is important our understanding of the life course is reflected effectively in policy so that…
It’s Saturday morning in West Brunswick, a suburb in Melbourne’s inner north. From my bedroom window I can see a crowd gathering across the road for a house inspection. The crowd swells to 60 or so people…
Why do young people drop out of school? Many factors influence this critical decision. These include the cost of education (think rising fees, cost of transportation, materials, textbooks and uniforms…
In the current political environment, young people are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Typically stereotyped as having an inflated sense of entitlement, uninterested in civic participation…
Australia came out of the global financial crisis better than most industrialised countries, but did not escape altogether. With a weaker economy, the unemployment rate rose from about 4% to 6% between…
Making sense of what is happening in our own time requires sharp thinking. Today, however, catch-phrases and clichés abound. More specifically we rely on cliches about generations. Journalists, bestselling…
The federal government’s proposed budget measures are particularly harsh on young people, particularly the most vulnerable. A raft of measures, if introduced, will reduce young people’s access to income…
The idea of a generation gap is an old one, but the discrepancies between young people’s lived experience and other people’s perceptions present a very contemporary challenge. Today The Conversation begins…
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Professorial Fellow in Social Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Senior Researcher in the Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, RMIT University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Director, Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Adolescent Health The University of Melbourne; Director, Royal Children's Hospital Centre for Adolescent Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Adolescent Health Research, The University of Melbourne
