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Bidgee Boxing Gym helps keep kids off the streets Video
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A new boxing gym in country New South Wales is helping to cut crime and keep young people off the streets.
Topics: youth, crime-prevention, narrandera-2700
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Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, crime, youth, townsville-4810, qld
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Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, crime, youth, townsville-4810, qld
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Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, crime, youth, townsville-4810, qld
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Deadly police cars on the road to reconciliation
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Queensland Police hope new Indigenous livery on two of their patrol cars will help get the community on the road to reconciliation.
Topics: police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, crime, youth, townsville-4810, qld
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Alice Springs Council calls for return of youth service following vandalism
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After a month of increased vandalism in Alice Springs during the school holidays, the council is urgently moving a motion calling on the NT Government to re-introduce the Youth Street Outreach Service which locals say was working to keep kids out of trouble.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, alice-springs-0870, nt
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Topics: youth, community-and-society, rural-youth, canberra-2600
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ABC Heywire 2017 competition now open for entries
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This year young regional Australians will have been telling their stories through the ABC's Heywire competition for two decades, with the competition now taking entries.
Topics: rural-youth, youth, community-and-society, canberra-2600, geraldton-6530, wa
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Topics: youth, community-and-society, rural-youth, canberra-2600
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Topics: youth, community-and-society, rural-youth, canberra-2600
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Seniors want millennials to mind their manners, but ease up on political correctness
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A survey of older Australians finds they are sick of the younger generation's manners, their apparent obsession with technology, and political correctness, which they say is ruining society.
Topics: older-people, youth, community-and-society, australia
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Bid for youth curfew in Alice Springs fails
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A motion to implement a youth curfew in Alice Springs fails to attract a seconder at a council meeting last night, with the town's councillors instead demanding the Northern Territory Government immediately reinstate a youth outreach service.
Topics: youth, government-and-politics, crime, alice-springs-0870
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Q&A panel divided on lowering voting age to 16 Video
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A Q&A panel of young people are divided on whether Australia's voting age should be reduced to 16 after an audience member pointed out that he could campaign for a political party, but not cast a vote himself.
Topics: government-and-politics, youth, melbourne-3000
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Alice Springs council to vote on youth curfew as children roam streets
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Alice Springs Town Council consider introducing a youth curfew following a spike in crime and vandalism, with as many as 300 kids wandering the streets on any given night.
Topics: youth, crime-prevention, alice-springs-0870
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'Onerous' cost of IDs should be cut for Queensland teens, committee says
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A $66 fee for a proof-of-age card would be "onerous" for the 15 to 17-year-old young people it is designed to help and should be discounted, a Queensland Parliament committee recommends.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, youth, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, public-sector, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Call for changes to NZ Samoan attitudes towards teen pregnancy Audio
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A New Zealand Samoan MP is calling for families and churches to change their approach to the issue of teenage pregnancy.
Topics: youth, adolescent-health, pacific, samoa
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Grim prison report reveals serious concerns over CCTV footage Analysis
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A scathing assessment of WA's only prison for juvenile offenders highlights serious and continuing problems with video surveillance in the state's justice system, Jessica Strutt writes.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, canning-vale-6155
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'I'm not ready': Voller drops out of council race after controversial week
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It has been a volatile week for the former Don Dale detainee, who announced his intention to run for Alice Springs Town Council but has now backed down two days later, following a social media furore after he was photographed with a replica gun.
Topics: local-government, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, child-abuse, community-and-society, alice-springs-0870, nt
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You won't believe these Young Archie portraits were done by children
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Australia's next big artist may well be the kid next door — these are some of the incredible works that made the final of the Young Archies competition.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, painting, youth, children, sydney-2000, australia
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Dylan Voller says sorry over fake gun photo on Facebook
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NT police investigate after former youth detainee Dylan Voller is photographed sitting in a car next to a replica handgun, but Mr Voller — now an aspiring politician — says he didn't mean to scare anyone.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, alice-springs-0870
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Horror skate park crash transforms teen into safety advocate
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"I don't really want to be the little kid going around telling everyone to wear a helmet but it needs to be said," says a young scooter rider who has become a powerful advocate for child safety after a dive that landed him in intensive care.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, adolescent-health, camden-2570, randwick-2031
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'I want to use my voice to help': Voller seeks seat on Alice Springs council
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The young man whose experience in youth detention helped spark a royal commission announces he will seek a seat on the Alice Springs Town Council when elections are held next month.
Topics: royal-commissions, government-and-politics, youth, alice-springs-0870
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Mother and daughter come back to familiar surroundings
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The lure of familiar surroundings of a country town was too much for mother and daughter.
Topics: disabilities, people, youth, family, schools, winnaleah-7265
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Government holds firm on Banksia Hill despite scathing report
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The WA Government insists the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre will stay open despite a damning report that revealed inmate mistreatment and a high rate of self-harm and suicide attempts.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, crime, states-and-territories, youth, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155
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$1m mental health funding for Katherine a 'bandaid' solution
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Advocates in Katherine say funding for mental health services must go beyond the installation of a new Headspace centre.
Topics: mental-health, healthcare-facilities, suicide, regional, doctors-and-medical-professionals, youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, depression, darwin-0800, katherine-0850
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