Autonomy, confidence and competence were stronger predictors of wellbeing than more traditional measures like deprivation or even total time spent being active.
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The Best Start initiative draws from the success of Sure Start, launched in 1999.
The two child limit and benefit cap leave many families living with extreme financial insecurity.
New research out of Queensland shows there are rehabilitative ways to help reduce youth sexual crime - and youth crime overall.
A skateboarding mindset – being prepared to learn difficult tricks in unfamiliar settings – helps students master other kinds of skill.
The pandemic has had a lasting impact on their career paths, financial independence, and mental wellbeing.
The Albanese government wants to see 80% of Australian workers have a TAFE or uni qualification by 2050, up from the current 60%.
The trial’s preliminary findings are hard to square with other evidence.
Nowadays, much of the information surrounding us is noise – insignificant and irrelevant information that no one needs to know.
Around 418 million children globally receive a free school meal.
Recalling multiplication facts doesn’t automatically help children to apply their knowledge.
Organising and attending proms builds teenagers’ leadership skills and creativity.
If the government is serious about tackling child poverty, their policy choices need to include the abolition of the two-child limit on benefits.
Europeans are still struggling to adjust to new conditions – and the conditions to which they need to adjust also continue to change dramatically.
There is an increasing military presence in children and young people’s lives in the UK.
Finding ways to encourage children to play in places such as driveways, courtyards and on their streets can help with their independence in the outdoors.
Australia wants to end domestic violence in a generation. To do so, we need to focus on the next one.
Children consistently expressed a desire for more choice in their education.
Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.
The old promise that hard work will lead to a good job and a fair wage no longer seems to apply.
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
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Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice, University of Hull
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Newcastle
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Chief Policy Fellow, University of Leeds
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney