Contents:
- Mission Australia's eighth annual National Survey of Young Australians
- Stories of early school leaving
- The Wood Report: Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW
- A response to the Wood Report from DOCS: 'Keep them safe: A shared approach to child wellbeing 2009-2014'
- Child protection e-discussion list
- The alcopops tax measure to be re-introduced to Parliament
- The National Inhalants Information Service
- National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre: Free mail-based counselling treatment for cannabis use
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) global campaign against drugs
- Australian Winter School
- Student participation, school connectedness and retention rates
- House of Representatives inquiry examines school/work balance
- 'Education Review' now free to read online
- Effective and sustainable university-school partnerships
- Reflections on the Melbourne Declaration
- Young Australians "seek the security of university degrees"
- AMP.NATSEM asks: What price the clever country? The costs of tertiary education in Australia
- Program encourages school students to consider university
11. ENVIRONMENT
12. ETHNIC AND MULTICULTURAL ISSUES
- Responses to the Australian Government's White Paper on homelessness
- The road home for young people: Youth homelessness and 'safe sleeping'
- New resources from SNAICC
- Indigenous research at the SPRC
- Towards a gender-related index for Indigenous Australians
16. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
- New Zealand appoints an interim Children's Commissioner
- Girls do better without boys, study finds
- Poor career guidance leads to fewer starting apprenticeships
- SANE website offers mental health podcasts
- Families and mental illness DVD kit
- Research collaboration embraces role of technology
- Multicultural mental health and reducing stigma
- Investigating young people's experiences of economic disadvantage
- New youth-related data from the ABS
- Mobile phone use and the possible risk of brain cancer
- Emerging technologies and the education and training sector
- Crikey: The digital divide has reopened
- Mobile Me - Kids speak out about mobile phones
- 'Taking chances: The effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behaviour of young people'
- WRC welcomes Bradley Review recommendations
- Australian Youth Forum: Have a say on global poverty
- Ministerial feedback on AYF topics, bullying, and body image
- Queensland news