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| UpdatedSecurity has been stepped up at a north Queensland youth detention centre after an increase in the amount of contraband being smuggled into the facility.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedPostings from Alice Springs residents on a social media forum about safety on the town's streets has prompted a local councillor to call for a youth curfew.
Topics: youth, activism-and-lobbying, programs-and-initiatives, local-government, tax, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedBroken Hill police have arrested a 13-year-old boy after three women were assaulted in public.
Topics: crime, sexual-offences, youth, broken-hill-2880
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Former elite AFL footballers will be matched with young Aboriginal offenders through a new mentoring program in Western Australia designed to break the destructive cycle of crime and incarceration.
Topics: youth, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA youth service tackling petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities says it hopes federal funding will not be cut from frontline services as councils in Central Australia take stock of jobs and services likely to go under the new funding allocations.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, youth, alice-springs-0870
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Bendigo's Mayor has described youth unemployment as a crisis for the central Victorian city.
Topics: unemployment, work, youth, local-government, bendigo-3550
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Topics: vegetables, community-development, rural-youth, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, youth, homelessness, armidale-2350
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Topics: vegetables, community-development, rural-youth, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, youth, homelessness, armidale-2350
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Charlie Winter says the Pathfinders program is helping to get troubled youth back in to education and give them food and accommodation security. Read more.
Topics: vegetables, community-development, rural-youth, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, youth, homelessness, armidale-2350
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| UpdatedA small farm outside Armidale in the north of New South Wales is hoping agricultural skills will help keep youth off the streets.
Topics: vegetables, community-development, rural-youth, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, youth, homelessness, armidale-2350
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Community leaders and health authorities have come together in south-west Queensland to look at how to improve outcomes for young people and build healthier towns.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, unemployment, mental-health, work, charleville-4470, cunnamulla-4490, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, toowoomba-4350
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Topics: photography, surfing, youth, miami-4220
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Youth leaders from 15 Pacific Island countries gather in Fiji for a regional forum aimed at addressing corruption
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, fiji, pacific, kiribati
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| UpdatedFive new environmental projects will be rolled out across South Australia's Riverland and Murraylands, as part of the Federal Government's Green Army program.
Topics: conservation, environmental-management, programs-and-initiatives, federal-government, youth, renmark-5341
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The hotly-anticipated new Youth Centre in Coledale will open its doors to the public at noon today, marking the first chance for patrons to check out the multi-million dollar facility.
Topics: youth, rural-youth, west-tamworth-2340
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The Federal Government urged by NCOSS to do more to help young unemployed people.
Topics: unemployment, youth, budget, programs-and-initiatives, lismore-2480, grafton-2460, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444
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| UpdatedYouth groups and employment agencies will work on a two-pronged approach to finding jobs for local people at a forum in Wodonga, in north-east Victoria, next week.
Topics: work, youth, unemployment, wodonga-3690, shepparton-3630
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| UpdatedA study recommends interventions to help Australia's school-aged homeless youth, who may have run away from home, finish school and avoid adult homelessness.
Topics: homelessness, government-and-politics, community-and-society, youth, australia, vic
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| UpdatedBuilding telescopes and launching balloons into space has become the new normal for a 17-year-old Queensland apprentice.
Topics: astronomy-space, youth, photography, cecil-plains-4407
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Government's plan to shed staff at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre near Deloraine in the state's north is being resisted by the health workers' union.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, unions, budget, deloraine-7304, tas
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Topics: rural-youth, youth, theatre, comedy-humour, yackandandah-3749
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2014 Heywire Tropical North winner Kelly Brebner
Topics: youth, rural-youth, rural, sarina-4737, mackay-4740
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| Updated2014 Heywire Wide Bay winner Britt Hunter
Topics: youth, rural-youth, rural, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedThirty-seven young regional Australians have arrived at the Heywire Regional Youth Summit in Canberra for a week of talks aimed at coming up with new solutions to problems facing their age group in away from the capital cities.
Topics: youth, rural-youth, federal-parliament, rural, canberra-2600, mackay-4740, sarina-4737, bundaberg-4670
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Heywire winners Britteny Hunter (Sarina, near Mackay) and Kelly Brebner (Bundaberg) speak from the Regional Youth Summit in Canberra.
Topics: youth, rural-youth, rural, federal-parliament, canberra-2600, mackay-4740, sarina-4737, bundaberg-4670