Youth Studies Australia back issues from March 2002:
The value of research internships.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The great majority of research papers published in YSA are either by PhD candidates or researchers and academics who have already achieved that status. The leading paper in this issue, however, `Seeking the Vibe: The Melbourne rave scene', is by a young honours student. Christine Siokou ...
Exam worries. (Attitudes & opinions).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The Higher School Certificate topped the list of worries for Year 11 students, a Sydney Morning Herald survey found last year. The survey, conducted in August (so before the terrorist attacks on the United States), revealed that more than half of the students responding had greatest ...
Outlawing knives. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The Victorian Government has launched a campaign to educate young people about the danger of carrying knives and about new laws introducing stiff penalties for carrying banned weapons. During the 2000-01 financial year, more than 2,500 people in Victoria were attacked with knives in ...
Workplace bullying. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The South Australian State Employee Ombudsman receives more than 100 complaints a year from young workers about bullying and illegal practices in the fast-food industry. The Ombudsman, Gary Collis, said he was unable to investigate many of the reports because it was hard to get a formal ...
School bullying. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Every week, one in six Australian school children reports being bullied, according to Dr Ken Rigby, author of the recently published book Stop the Bullying: A Handbook for Schools. The forms bullying takes include hurtful language, acute physical abuse and damage to property. ...
Landmark court award. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A teenager found to have endured three years of bullying at his former school, St Patrick's College in Ballarat, was awarded $60,000 by a Victorian County ...
NSW school violence. (Bullying & violence).(New South Wales)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... School violence in NSW peaked during Term 3 in 2001, with more than 100 students a day being suspended for violent behaviour. There were 10,722 students who received suspensions of between one and four days for pushing or shoving another child or repeatedly breaking school rules; and 5,515 ...
Violence against teachers. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The death of a Queensland teacher after being kicked in the chest by a student drew attention to the problems that teachers face with violent students. In 2000 and 2001, 451 NSW teachers were assaulted by students, with 42 needing medical attention. In Western Australia in 2000 ...
The Queensland Education Department decided to register students who have been expelled from state schools. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The Queensland Education Department decided to register students who have been expelled from state schools. It was an attempt to deal with behaviour problems and inform schools of students with violent backgrounds. The Queensland Association of State School Principals voiced ...
Bring back the cane? (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Federal ALP backbencher Mark Latham advocated corporal punishment as a means of managing difficult boys who disrupt others' learning. In a mailout to his Werriwa (western Sydney) constituents, Mr Latham called for a new rigour in disciplining boys. He also suggested that farm work and ...
Children in care. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A national report revealed a 17% increase in the notifications or claims of child abuse to state government human services departments of state governments in 1999-2000, compared with four years earlier. The report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare revealed that ...
Repetitive abuse. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... One in 10 children reported as abused or neglected in Australia are further abused within a year, a report has said. The Create Foundation, a national organisation promoting the safety and wellbeing of young people in care, published its second annual Report Card on Children and Young ...
Child prostitution. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A study by Child Wise, the Australian arm of the international group End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, estimates that 4,000 children, some as young as 10, are selling sex for money and drugs in Australia. Bernadette McMenamin, national director of Child Wise, ...
Brisbane hotline. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A telephone hotline for victims of sexual abuse has been set up by the Anglican Church in its Brisbane diocese. A recorded message refers people to a mobile phone number if they want to make a complaint against church workers, including staff or volunteers at church-run schools. The ...
Arson. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... In New South Wales, 17 of the 28 people arrested in connection with the summer bushfires were juveniles, one as young as nine. The premier, Bob Cart, promised to make teenage arsonists meet their victims and help in the clean-up. `it is fundamental to achieving criminal justice that ...
Alternatives to court. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Since the introduction in New South Wales of an alternative justice program for young people, there has been a 38% fall in numbers appearing before the NSW Children's Court on criminal charges. The Young Offenders Act 1997 provides for a hierarchy of police warnings, formal cautions and ...
Legal centre for youth. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Victoria's first legal centre dedicated to young people was opened in October. The purpose of Youthlaw (which is based in central Melbourne) is to provide free legal advice and run cases for people under 25. The centre will ...
Underage sex. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Changes to West Australia's age-of-consent laws were being introduced to strengthen safeguards for children under 16, said the WA Attorney-General, Jim McGinty. Under the new legislation, adults would no longer be able to use the excuse that they believed underage sexual partners ...
Drugged rape victims. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... In 2000, about 22% of sexual assault victims in central and eastern Sydney who reported for counselling had been drugged, and about 80% were young women in their late teens. Mark Griffiths, a psychologist at the Eastern and Central Sydney Sexual Assault Services, Royal Prince Alfred ...
Unpaid fines. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... In New South Wales, children as young as 10 can be fined for minor offences without their parents knowing. And because children often bury their heads in the sand instead of facing the penalty, debts can mount up as collection charges are added to the original fines. Small offences -- ...
Deaf role models. (Disability).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... At Deakin University a Deaf Role Models for Deaf Students project was launched, including a web site and discussion space organised by Dr Linda Komesaroff, a lecturer in Deakin's school of social and cultural studies in education. So far, nine students from Deakin and RMIT ...
Stress-smoking link. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The number of girls taking up smoking could be cut by half if girls were less stressed, according to a study from the Australian National University. Professor Don Byrne, an ANU psychologist, has been looking at possible reasons why more girls than boys take up smoking. He found that girls ...
Drug-test kit lacks seal of approval. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has declined to endorse Drugscreen products because the kits have posed ethical dilemmas for pharmacists and could damage relationships between parents and their children, according to the Guild's policy officer, Khin Win May. The kits are sold through the ...
Rising drug use. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Writing in the Australian Family Physician magazine, Dr Melissa Kang reported that about a quarter of deaths among Australians aged 12-24 were drug-related, coinciding with an increase in illicit drug use by young people. Dr Kang, who is head of education and training at the NSW ...
Drugs-crime axis. (Drugs).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The South Australian Office of Crime Statistics has released the report of a study by Aldis Putnin of about 900 young offenders aged 14-17 held in secure detention in the state. The study found that about 60% of the detainees were drug users at the time of their most recent ...
Teenage binge drinking. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Teenage binge drinking is increasing significantly, according to a new alcohol guidelines report from the National Health and Medical Research Council. The report reveals that in 1998, more than two-thirds of people who drank too much on a given day were teenagers, and that more than ...
A survey of more than 7,000 students in 122 New South Wales schools found that about one-third of the respondents had drunk `hazardous' amounts of alcohol in the two weeks before the survey was conducted. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... * A survey of more than 7,000 students in 122 New South Wales schools found that about one-third of the respondents had drunk `hazardous' amounts of alcohol in the two weeks before the ...
Drug education. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A United States medical sociologist claimed that many drug-education programs in schools were unsuccessful and that funding should be redirected to after-school care programs. Speaking in Brisbane at a `Drugs: National Problems, Local Solutions' conference, Dr Marsha Rosenbaum said she ...
Who's dropping out. (Education).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... According to a national study of almost 8,000 students, those who leave school before finishing Year 12 are likely to be male, have Australian-born parents, and come from a government school and low socioeconomic background. Most will also be from outside city areas and will not meet ...
Literacy comparisons. (Education).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Results from an OECD survey comparing the literacy of 15-year-olds from 32 countries suggest that Australian school students are among the most literate in the world -- on average. The relationship between socioeconomic background and achievement in reading was more pronounced in Australia ...
University entrance. (Education).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... An Australian Council for Educational Research report, Tertiary Entrance Performance: The Role of Student Background and School Factors, has identified factors influencing young people's tertiary entrance scores. ACER conducted a five-year study looking at the backgrounds and performance ...
VET. (Employment).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A survey of 70,000 TAFE students by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research revealed that TAFE students were still more likely to win a job than school-leavers who did not go on to further study. This was despite a small drop in graduate employment rates in 2001. Almost ...
The latest survey of employers' views of Vocational Education and Training graduates found that a third of the employers were dissatisfied, feeling that their needs were not being met by TAFE and other colleges. (Employment).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... * The latest survey of employers' views of Vocational Education and Training graduates found that a third of the employers were dissatisfied, feeling that their needs were not being met by TAFE and other colleges. The survey is conducted every two years by the National Centre for ...
Apprentices. (Employment).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Nearly all teenage apprentices have a regular job after they finish their training, according to a study by ACER. The study showed that 90% of apprentices ...
Single mothering. (Families).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A study of over 4,000 families suggests that children brought up by mothers who remain single throughout the upbringing are no more likely to be depressed or anxious as teenagers than those from any other stable family. By contrast, marital discord, a breakup or the arrival of a new ...
Changing patterns. (Families).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has reported that one in five Australian families is now headed by a single parent, and such families have accounted for 92% of ...
Girls and IT. (Gender issues).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Only 12% of information technology jobs in industry across the board are held by women, says Di Thompson, a former chair of the Information Technology Council for South Australia. `It worries me,' she said, 'because females don't understand that IT is in all areas of industry now .... ...
Salary gaps persist. (Gender issues).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Female graduands can leave the university with the same degree, enter the same profession, and still be paid less than their male peers. The long-running and respected surveys of graduate salaries conducted by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia show the gap between male and female ...
Asthma. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A biostatistical study conducted for the NSW Health Department and published in the NSW Public Health Bulletin shows that not only are more children in New South Wales getting asthma but the severity of the disease is rising dramatically. In what the study's author, Doug Lincoln, calls a ...
Sunburn. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Fashionable skimpy clothing may be contributing to sunburn and the risk of skin cancer among teenagers. A national survey of 25,000 high-school students in 1999 found cancer-aware behaviour, such as wearing a hat and staying out of the sun, to be declining. The proportion of students ...
Horse-riding. (Health and safety).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A study of children admitted to hospital with horse-related injuries found that five out of six who had severe head injuries died. Dr Andrew Holland, of the Children's Hospital in Westmead, Sydney, and Dr Gerard Roy, of the John Hunter Children's Hospital in Newcastle, investigated 232 ...
Help for 31,000. (Housing & homelessness).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The latest annual report from the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program says 31,000 young people aged 15-24 used its crisis accommodation and other services for the homeless in the 2000-01 year. Altogether, some 91,200 people had used SAAP's services in the year. The program was able ...
Children without documents. (Immigration).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... In a feature article in the Australian Financial Review, Peter Mares, presenter of `Asia Pacific' on Radio Australia and author of Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, raised the question `If not the Pacific solution, then what?' While acknowledging the clear ...
Students' expenses. (Incomes and expenditures).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... The Australian Scholarship Group, a non-profit friendly society, surveyed 30 Australian universities and tertiary colleges to gain an estimate of what a tertiary education might now cost a typical student. The survey covered tuition fees, accommodation costs, transport, books, extra ...
Children and the Internet. (Media).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... For a report called Internet@home researcher Kate Aisbett interviewed 1,203 adults across the country and consulted the members of 310 Internet-equipped households with children under 18. The survey's purpose was to find out how the Internet is used in Australian homes, what concerns it ...
Playing hard. (Risk-taking).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Researchers at La Trobe University's Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society have reported on a study of 400 young office-workers, hairdressers, building workers, sales assistants, tradespeople and young people working in the manufacturing and hospitality industries. The ...
`Drugged driving OK'. (Risk-taking).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... A survey conducted for Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd found that 18% of young drivers aged under 25 believed driving after using drugs was safer than driving after drinking alcohol. Nine per cent thought that driving after taking `a little bit of recreational drugs' was not a ...
Residential care in Victoria. (Services & welfare).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Audit of Children and Young People in Residential Care, a report commissioned by the Victorian community services minister, notes that among the abused children and adolescents now living in this type of care, 56 had at some time attempted suicide and 141 had threatened to kill themselves ....
Anglicare. (Services & welfare).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Anglicare Victoria, that state's biggest foster-care provider, has reported that it could not help 656 of the children who needed foster care in the year 2000-01. But the welfare agency did place 1,604 children throughout the state. This was a 26% increase ...
Teenage pregnancies. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... According to a report published in The Medical Journal of Australia, the number of babies born to teenage mothers in Australia has more than halved since the 1970s. Figures from the peri-natal unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...
Coaches and body image. (Sport & leisure).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... In a plan outlined to a sports injury prevention conference in Sydney, Dr Jeni Saunders, a sports physician, said all sports-coaching courses would be overhauled to minimise negative impact on girls. She said that because new research shows that female athletes are 14 times more likely to ...
Lure of TV. (Sport & leisure).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Research by Associate Professor Kevin Norton, of the University of South Australia, suggests that 10% of South Australian children spend more time watching television than attending school. Recently published data from a survey of more than 1,900 South Australian children also showed that ...
Mixed picture. (Suicide).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... New youth-suicide statistics issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the suicide rate has declined across Australia's eastern states since 1997 but has increased or remained high in rural areas. While the annual numbers over the past three years have dropped ...
Seeking the vibe.
Mar 01, 2002; ... RAVE parties are events at which participants enter a fantasy world, which is dominated by loud techno music, and utterly different to their everyday lives. There is a paucity of academic studies of raves and, while many aspects are deserving of attention, this paper focuses on theoretical ...
Dancing through the revolution: the political and social meaning of the rave.
Mar 01, 2002; ... The process of writing about modern dance culture is fraught with "dangers" at many levels. First, the problem of representing physical movement in words; second, the challenge of producing a plausible theoretical interpretation of the significance of dance in popular culture; and finally, ...
The complexities of ethnic adolescent health: an Australian perspective.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Ethnic adolescent health is both complex and multifaceted. It is connected to and affected by family relations, the use of health services, peer relations, school influences, and issues emanating from the migration process. This paper reviews the predominantly Australian literature related ...
Friends, authority and health: an insight into young people's smoking habits and efforts to quit.
Mar 01, 2002; ... Drawing upon findings from an ethnographic investigation into the smoking lives of a cohort of teenagers, this paper argues a need for health educators to focus on smoking cessation by tapping into the dynamics of youth culture and the associated self-management strategies used by young ...
Young people and their quest for meaning.
Mar 01, 2002; ... Falling attendances and an ageing of congregations at Australia's mainstream religious institutions indicate young people's declining interest in traditional worship. However, this trend is balanced by young people's increased interest in alternative forms of spirituality. In an economic ...
Relationships and power: the critical core of youth partnership accountability work. (Programs And Practice).
Mar 01, 2002; ... Youth Partnership Accountability (YPA) is an approach to youth participation that is explicitly concerned with the issues of power, relationships and agendas in partnership work. As the name suggests, it focuses on the accountability of workers and agencies to the young people involved in ...
Willing & Able Mentoring Program. (Programs And Practice).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002 ... STUDENTS who have a disability, despite being as talented as their peers, are often overlooked in the fierce competition for graduate positions due to negative self-concepts, community stereotypes, and negative beliefs or assumptions about their ability compared to their peers. The Willing ...
National Youth Week 7-14 April 2002.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002 ... With the support of Australia's brightest young talents including Ricky Ponting, Blair McDonough, Matthew Reilly and Leisl Jones, the third annual National Youth Week (NYW) will be staged from 7 - 14 April 2002. The Youth Bureau of the Commonwealth Department of Family and ...
Get IT.(a service which provides current information on researchers' fields of interest)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... GET IT: current awareness services Current awareness services help researchers keep track of developments in their fields of interest, providing news alerts that in some cases can be tailored to match particular interests. This `selective dissemination of information' is ...
Coping in a new world: the social and emotional wellbeing of young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. (Reports).(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... S. Selvamanickam, M. Zgryza & D. Gorman, Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre, 2001, ISBN 0646374303, 110 pp. `Even though I was very young I went through a lot of misery to last me a lifetime.' Just one of the voices which resonate strongly in this report on the mental ...
Structural determinants of youth drug use: ANCD research paper 2. (Reports).(Australian National Council on Drugs)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Prepared by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in collaboration with C.J. Spooner: Planning, Research and Evaluation, Australian National Council on Drugs, 2001, ISBN 1877018015, 79pp. Youth drug use and other problem behaviours among youth are increasing in Australia ...
GENERATE: Youth culture and migration history in Western Sydney. (Reports).
Mar 01, 2002; ... M. Butcher & M. Thomas, Institute for Cultural Research and Migration Heritage Centre, 2001, ISBN 1863418946, $16.50, 65pp. GENERATE is a research, training and exhibition project designed to realise the contemporary nature of migration heritage, and to highlight the positive ...