Young Generation
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‘Don’t call me cute’: Bullied boy with dwarfism Quaden Bayles and mum Yarraka share reality of going ‘viral’
Sometimes it’s discreet but it has always been there, strangers photographing and filming him. Authors ABC News & Australian Story…
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Distress, depression and drug use: young people fear for their future after the bushfires
Already, the commission’s officials have warned the status quo is “no longer enough to defend us from the impact of…
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Laptop allocation for England’s schools slashed by 80%
Schools in some of the most deprived areas of the country were told on Friday night they would not receive…
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What happens to a woman’s body as she gives birth?
What are they? Sophie Aubrey The Age Birth is often described as a “miracle” and in many ways, of course,…
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Why we must raise a generation of readers
It’s easy for me to say that being a reader has formed the foundation for my life. Lorraine Levis The…
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British-born Italian teenager could become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint
A British-born Italian teenager who dedicated his short life to spreading the faith online and helping the poor was beatified…
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Montessori, Steiner or Reggio Emilia: which childcare philosophy is best for your family?
Early learning matters, and creates a solid foundation for future development. Authors The Conversation Philosophical underpinnings in early education matter…
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Girls around the world are being harassed online: this is what it feels like
It’s time others called it out, writes 21-year-old youth activist Madhuraa Prakash. Madhuraa Prakash SBS News Trolling and nastiness online…
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A place to get away from it all: 5 ways school libraries support student well-being
Globally, as many as one in five young people may experience mental-health problems. Margaret Kristin Merga The Conversation These can…
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Number of children on remand in Victoria doubled in decade to 2020
Up to two-thirds of children denied bail in Victoria were in custody unnecessarily, the state’s children’s commissioner has said, after…
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‘It makes you want to throw your phone in the bin’: The film turning teens off social media
Almost instantaneously, the bombshell Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, changed her relationship with the platforms upon which her generation grew…
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Thailand’s young protesters say they’ll risk arrest as they try to reform the country’s powerful monarchy
She spoke out against the country’s monarchy. ABC News The 21-year-old university student, who is known by her nickname… Thailand’s…
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‘The workload was intense’: what parents told us about remote learning
Many parents in Melbourne and some in regional Victoria will still be doing for some of term four. Authors The…
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The teen activists who have stopped hundreds of child marriages in Bangladesh
When Dola Akter Reba was only 12, ‘matchmakers’ in the neighbourhood came knocking on her mother’s door, believing the young…
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Guide to the Classics: The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time…
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Trouble in paradise on Greece’s ‘refugee island’
The Greek island of Lesbos is a powder keg of tension, where conflict among Lesbos locals – known as Lesbians…
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