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studies of Youth

December 23rd, 2009 | Author: Manly Library

Are you looking for studies done on Australian Youth? 

The  Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) is a research program that tracks young people as they move from school to post-school destinations.  Various of their reports are summarised on their website.  http://www.lsay.edu.au/research/reports_search.html

Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

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Australia’s Social Trends – latest from the ABS

December 18th, 2009 | Author: Manly Library
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The December issue of Autralia’s Social Trends reveals that over the last decade, the number of jobless families has fallen, while the number of people who live alone has been increasing. We also see that Australians are less likely to smoke than in the past, but more likely to be obese and that many workers work non-traditional hours.
Visit the Australian Burea of Statistics site for the full details http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/4102.0
Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library
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Perspective, a new journal of youth writing on international affairs and domestic policy

October 9th, 2009 | Author: Manly Library

Perspective Journal Cover

The United Nations Youth Association of Australia (UNYA) is proud to launch Perspective, a new journal of youth writing on international affairs and domestic policy. Perspective aims to provide an outlet for the views of young people who have a unique perspective and an intrinsically fresh approach to a range of global issues. Perspective volunteer managers, editors and designers have high hopes: wanting it to become the cornerstone of youth opinion and intellect.

The new issue is jam-packed with some incredible articles that were handpicked from approximately 80 submissions. Each article offers the reader a highly intelligent and inventive approach to some of the most complex problems our world faces today, such as climate change, human rights, war crimes, child prostitution and gender issues.

Individual articles and the whole journal are available to download from the UNYA Australia Site

These are the example articles from the current Winter edition:

  • Coffee, Laneways & Child Prostitution: Eradicating Melbourne’s Hidden Shame
  • Accessing Clean Safe Water in Africa: Privatisation and the World Bank
  • State Failure in the Pacific: Howard Versus Rudd
  • “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” Rhetoric Vs. Reality
  • Climate Change and You: How is the Human Rights Discourse Informing Climate Change Policy?
  • Slow Justice or No Justice? Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide

    • Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

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    Drug info@your library for the HSC

    December 10th, 2008 | Author: Manly Library

    This website is a great resource for HSC students. There is information on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs; drug and alcohol effects; mental, health and drug & alcohol use; how to talk to others about drug use and where to go for help.

    http://www.druginfo.sl.nsw.gov.au/ is a gateway to both factsheets and detailed information. There is a specific section for Students and Teachers which is particularly useful for PDHPE and Society and Culture students.
    Books and booklets are available in public libraries throughout NSW. Free pamphlets are also available for students to take home

    Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library (from a SLNSW information sheet)

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