A national survey of 14,700 young people, aged 11-24 (95% between 11-19), has found family conflict, alcohol and other drugs and body image are their three main issues of concern, according to the survey’s authors, community service organisation, Mission Australia. When asked to rank 12 issues in level of importance, family conflict was ranked most frequently [...]
National Youth Survey 2006: the main concerns of young Australians
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National Youth Survey 2005: Key & emerging issues.
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Mission Australia has released their 2005 Youth Survey Report, it’s a 99 page pdf document. This national survey of around 11,300 young people, aged 11-24 (94% between 11-19), has found that ‘suicide/self harm’, ‘physical/sexual abuse’ and ‘family conflict’ are issues of growing concern. The survey identifies the key issues of concern to young people, what [...]
Love Thy Neighbours: Racial Tolerance among Young Australians
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By Professor Trang Thomas AM and Dr Rivka Witenberg, RMIT University – A report for the Australian Multicultural Foundation Racial prejudice can lead to friction, disharmony and even physical violence. It is a major social problem in many societies and one from which Australia is not immune. However, evidence is accumulating that living in harmony may [...]
National Study of The Spirituality of Generation Y
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Media Release: Religious Media Media Release: General Media The Spirit of Generation Y project (2003-2006), is a national study of spirituality among Australian young people in their teens and twenties, conducted by researchers from Australian Catholic University, Monash University and the Christian Research Association. The research consisted of a survey of a nationally representative sample [...]
Moving Beyond Forty Years
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Around forty years ago the age profile of church attenders matched the wider community, but since the 1960s, younger generations went missing. Latest results from the 2006 National Church Life Survey confirm the size of the current gap between church and community, as well as denominational variations. This is ‘old news’ but the need for [...]
How Young People Are Fairing 2009
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This report has been prepared by Lyn Robinson and Stephen Lamb, researchers for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning (CPELL) at the University of Melbourne. Commissioned by FYA and conducted by the Centre for Postcompulsory Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Melbourne, the annual HYPAF report describes the aspirations, employment opportunities and education pathways [...]
How Young People Are Fairing 2008
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This report has been prepared by Stephen Lamb and Kate Mason, researchers in the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning (CPELL) at the University of Melbourne Commissioned by FYA and conducted by the Centre for Postcompulsory Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Melbourne, the annual HYPAF report describes the aspirations, employment opportunities [...]
How Young People are Fairing 2006
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330,000 Young Australians Willing and Waiting to Fix the Skills Drought An estimated 330,000 young Australians were excluded from full-time work this year – at a time when employers are crying out for skilled workers. According to a major new report on how young people in Australia are faring, as at May 2006, twelve percent [...]
How Young People are Fairing 2005
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How Young People are Faring 2005 is the seventh report in this annual series. It provides point in time data for three main measures of youth participation in learning or work: teenagers not in full-time education and not in full-time employment unemployment rates among young people and 25 to 54 year olds young adults who [...]
Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds
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A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using “new media” like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with “old” media like TV, print and music. Instead, because of the amount of time they spend using more than [...]
