Youth Studies Australia articles from June 2003

Youth Studies Australia archives from June 2003

Impact correction.(youth crime prevention, March 2003 issue)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2003... The authors of the article titled 'Impact: Youth crime prevention', YSA, v.22, n.1, March 2003, have drawn our attention to an editing error on our behalf. On page 47, column 2, the first paragraph should read: "In Australia, 'Pathways to...

Anti-bullying programs reviewed. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In a booklet for the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, Dr Ken Rigby, associate professor in psychology at the University of South Australia, has reviewed 12 anti-bullying programs implemented overseas. Professor Rigby, who has...

Bullying by phone. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Adelaide Advertiser reports that youth counsellors and education authorities are noticing bullying by mobile phone, where teenagers are using text messages for name-calling, threats and harassment of others. Victims are sent intimidating or...

Early warning signs. (Bullying & violence).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Since 1982, the Australian Institute of Family Studies has been conducting a long-running study called the Australian Temperament Project. It has kept in touch with 2,443 Victorian children and their parents since 1982, tracking each child's...

Identifying needs. (Child abuse & protection).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Victorian Community Services Minister, Sherryl Garbutt, launched a $2.1 million training scheme for foster parents, child protection workers and agencies, to help them identify and meet the needs of young people in care. The 'Looking After...

Mentors in Victoria. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Victorian state government is to introduce a scheme that will link young offenders with mentors in the community. Office-workers, business leaders, tradespeople and others will be recruited as mentors for young people aged between 12 and 20...

Different dolls. (Discrimination).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A Melbourne University study of 112 mostly Anglo-Australian preschool children has found that the children preferred playing with white-skinned dolls. Four 'anti-bias persona' dolls--Anglo-Australian Olivia and Tom, Indigenous Australian Shiree...

Teenage snapshot. (Drugs).(drug use and teenages)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A report on drug use by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says that among teenagers aged 14-17, one in 10 smoke cigarettes every day, and one in five have tried cannabis. Nearly half the young people surveyed had got their...

Drug-tests in schools. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Some private-school principals have said that the use of random drug tests has dramatically cut drug usage among students, but the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales suggests that testing may just...

'Say no' is not enough. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Dr Richard Midford, of the National Drug Research Institute based at Curtin University in Western Australia, told a conference in Fremantle that teaching children to 'just say no to drugs' is a head-in-the-sand approach that does not work...

Education audit. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Drug Education in Government Schools, a report from the Victorian Auditor-General, says that many state schools have dropped drug-education forums for parents because of limited participation. The report urges schools to involve parents more in...

Passive smoking. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Almost half of those who die in Australia of disease caused by passive smoking are aged under 15, according to a National Drug Strategy study. Of the 224 Australians who died in 1998-99 from causes related to involuntary inhalation of cigarette...

Health warnings on drinks. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In Victoria, a State Government Youth Alcohol and Drug Survey asked 4,500 young people aged from 16 to 24 about their alcohol use. It found that while fewer young people were taking illegal drugs, alcohol consumption had increased dramatically....

Alcopops. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Sales of alcopops (alcoholic drinks tailored to suit teenage tastes, with the alcohol masked by sweet flavourings) and other premixed drinks have doubled, partly because of substantial tax cuts that have made the drinks much cheaper. ...

Binge drinking. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Research by the Australian Drug Foundation has confirmed that teenage binge drinking is increasing. According to figures from the Foundation, about 35% of teenage males and 22% of teenage females admit to having drunk between nine and 30 drinks...

Cannabis dependence. (Drugs).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A study of 1,601 secondary students by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne revealed that teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 who smoked cannabis more than once a week were 20 times more likely to form the habit as adults...

Family influence. (Education & training).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Barriers to Participation: Financial, educational and technological is a research report published by the Smith Family (a charity) about what stops people from getting on in life, and what can be done about it. One of the main findings was that...

School and work. (Education & training).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A team at the University of Western Sydney has been studying students in part-time work, concentrating on a group of students who started Year 9 in 1995. The research report, Student Workers in High School and Beyond, is based on responses from...

Improved literacy. (Education & training).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Australian Council for Educational Research has reported that the levels of literacy in teenagers from non-English-speaking backgrounds improved between 1975 and 1998. In 1975, 38% of students from a home where a language other than English...

Dropping out. (Education & training).
June 1, 2003... Writing in the Australian Financial Review, John Spierings, senior researcher with the Dusseldorp Skills Forum, noted that only 67% of Australian students complete school to the end of Year 12. The figure rises to 80% when the number of...

LLENs. (Employment).(Local Learning and Employment Networks )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In Victoria, 31 Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLENs) have been established to link the education sector more closely with community groups and employers, and to add to existing efforts to link employers with potential trainees and...

Family structures. (Families).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released data showing that over the three decades from 1971 to 2001, the median ages of brides and bridegrooms at the time of first marriage increased from 21.1 and 23.4 respectively to 26.9 and 28.7. ...

Living with father. (Families).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Statistics from the Family Court of Australia show that as recently as the mid-1990s, fathers were awarded children's residence (previously called custody) in only 15% of divorce cases. In the mid-1980s, 90% of cases had been decided in favour...

Pregnancy education. (Families).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... 'Core of Life', an education program for Year 10 students, is to be introduced in 100 Victorian state and private secondary schools. The program aims to lower the number of teenage pregnancies by introducing teenagers to the realities of...

A load on young shoulders. (Families).(young caregivers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Cyclops ACT, a Canberra-based Anglicare project to support young carers and their families, has on its books 180 carers aged from 10 to 18. These young people have varying degrees of responsibility, sometimes almost full responsibility, for...

Improving the health of ACT children. (Health & safety).(Australian Capital Territory)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In the Australian Capital Territory, the Legislative Assembly's Health Committee set up an inquiry into children's health last year, and recently issued a final report with 48 recommendations. The committee concluded that long-term systemic...

Stress and menarche. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The age at which Australian girls first have a period has changed from about 14 or 15 in 1900 to about 11 or 12 today. For many years, the changing age has been attributed to improved nutrition in combination with genetic predisposition. New...

Body piercing. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Dental Hygienists Association of Australia has issued a statement warning that teenagers who have their lips or tongues pierced may end up suffering from prolonged drooling, slurred speech, damaged teeth, reduced taste sensation and...

'Health' supplements. (Health & safety).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A nutritionist at Sydney University, Dr Jenny O'Dea, has reported in the British journal Health Education Research on her study of 78 young people aged from 11 to 18 who were taking health supplements. She found that they were using vitamin...

Not without hope. (Housing & homelessness).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Findings from a five-year study of 403 homeless young people in Melbourne have shown that many of them combined high-risk behaviour with aspirations for a better future. About 40% still attended school, TAFE or university, and 20% even boosted...

A mixed picture. (Housing & homelessness).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In a survey commissioned by Cartoon Network, a pay-TV channel, 600 child-and-parent pairs in New South Wales and Victoria were asked about the expenditures of the 7-14-year-olds. Half of the families responding to the survey questions were in...

Life lessons. (Incomes & expenditures).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Addressing a financial counsellors' conference, Merri Rose, Queensland's Minister for Fair Trading, said that personal finance should be taught as a subject in school to help to protect students from slick marketers using stylish lifestyle...

HECS debt. (Incomes & expenditures).(Higher Education Contribution Scheme)
June 1, 2003... The money owed by students and graduates to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme will rise by $1 billion to more than $9 billion this financial year. Figures prepared by the Federal Government after a question on notice from Labor's science...

Newspaper avoidance. (Media).(readership survey)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In a feature article in The Australian, Mark Day noted that a study of readership trends in Australia from 1991 to 2002 shows young people moving away from newspaper readership. In the 14-24 age range, there has been a steady decline in...

New ACOSS report. (Poverty).(Australian Council of Social Service )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The report on a new study carried out for the Australian Council of Social Service says family welfare payments from the Federal Government have failed to increase in line with the extra expenses of parents providing for teenagers. The report...

Legal advice. (Rights & responsibilities).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Australian Capital Territory's first dedicated youth legal centre has opened in Canberra. Offering a combination of government, private and academic legal skills, the First Stop Youth Legal Service has been designed to help people aged...

Scenarios for drivers. (Risk-taking).
June 1, 2003... When the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils began preparing a new strategic plan for road safety, it found that learner and P-plate drivers accounted for 23% of all fatal crashes and one-quarter of all injury accidents. The large...

Three-year study. (Risk-taking).(automobile accidents and youth)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... As almost one in three car-crash injuries involve drivers aged between 17 and 24, the Institute for International Health wants to know why. In an attempt to reduce the global road toll, it is to start gathering data on the behaviour of young...

Intercourse 'sporadic'. (Sexuality).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Researchers from La Trobe University, the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney conducted the biggest-ever national survey of Australian sex attitudes and practices. The federally funded project. The Australian Study of...

Rising costs. (Sport & leisure).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... According to the president of the New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens, Sharryn Brownlee, the rising costs of organised sport for children are putting a strain on household budgets, and the gap between those who can afford to...

Statistics from 2001. (Suicide).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that in the year 2001 there were 339 deaths from suicide among young people in the 15-24 age range. This represented just under 14% of the national total for all age groups (2,454), and...

Internet sex sites. (Technology).
June 1, 2003... A survey of 100 males and 100 females aged 16-17 in Melbourne and Sydney suggested that an increasing number of Australian teenagers were stumbling on 'hardcore' sex sites while casually roaming the Internet. When questioned in the survey, 84%...

Mobile phones. (Technology).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Mobile phone carriers (telecommunications companies) have set their sights on the youth market, seeing it as a source of market growth and, of course, of future adult phone users. In Australia, there are over 13 million users of mobile phones,...

Computer games. (Technology).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Preliminary findings in new research conducted partly in Western Australia tend to support the view that playing computer games can be linked to positive adolescent development. A report written by Professor Kevin Durkin, of the University of...

Youth and popular music.
June 1, 2003... Welcome to a special edition of Youth Studies Australia focusing on the popular music activities of youth. This issue provides a snapshot of contemporary popular music studies within particular Australian contexts. Popular music remains a...

Geographies of noise: since the 1950s, contemporary music performances in city venues have been important symbolic practices for Australian youth,.
June 1, 2003... Geographies of noise: since the 1950s, contemporary music performances in city venues have been important symbolic practices for Australian youth, and although for over a century there have been calls for more regulation of public entertainment...

The screamers: drawing on ethnographic research and newspaper reports, Sarah Baker discusses young girls' physical behaviours at promotional appearances of pop stars in Adelaide shopping malls. Specifically, the article looks at how young girls are stereotyped and derided as "screamers" at these performances, and also considers the potential of their praxis to transform shopping space into something Other. (Peer Reviewed Paper).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Ten-year-old Emlyn, a key participant in my research into pre-teen girls' engagement with popular music, was very interested in pop concerts. Like the other seven girls (aged eight to 11) in my research, Emlyn (all participants' names are...

Mining Tin Pan Alley the songs of Tin Pan Alley as a social, musical and educational resource in the development of music making based on a community-focused social/altruistic philosophy; the community outreach program Hand-in-Hand focuses on the altruistic and social use of music as a positive force for life enhancement.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Mining Tin Pan Alley the songs of Tin Pan Alley as a social, musical and educational resource in the development of music making based on a community-focused social/altruistic philosophy; the community outreach program Hand-in-Hand focuses on...

Playing for life: new approaches to researching youth and their music practices. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
June 1, 2003... What and who is 'Playing for Life'? This paper outlines an international three-year Australian Research Council project funded from 2003-2005 and thus currently in progress. It maps the project's aims and significance and reflects on some...

Australian hip hop as a subculture. (Peer Reviewed Paper).
June 1, 2003... Hip hop can be regarded as a global youth subculture; however, academic writing about Australian hip hop makes little reference to subcultural theory. Mitchell suggests that postmodern discussions of "subcultural capital" do not fully describe...

Good Buddha & tzu: "middle-class wiggers from the underside". (Peer Reviewed Paper).
June 1, 2003... A large number of academic writings, mindful of the intense sociopolitical environment from which hip hop evolved, speak respectfully of the appropriation of hip hop by marginalised groups around the world (Mitchell 1996, 2001; Gilroy 1991;...

Supporting music projects. (music nsw).
June 1, 2003... Contemporary music projects for youth have not been widely developed in Australia to this point in time; however, MusicNSW recognises that many young people want to learn various aspects of music production, and so provides educational and...

Commonwealth Government Youth Initiatives. (Reconnect: opportunities, choices & support for young people and their families).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Reconnect program is administered by the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS), and was established in response to a principal recommendation of the final report of the Prime Ministerial Youth Homeless Taskforce, Putting...

Online music news. (Get IT).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The current popularity of MP3 music files is an unintended consequence of the advance of technology. Howstuffworks (http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/MP32.htm) explains: 'The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is responsible for...

Australian music web sites. (Get IT).
June 1, 2003... noise: the Australian e-media music festival for young people, happens every two years and profiles young artists' work in print, on radio, TCV and on the Net.online. In October 2003 have a look at: www.noise.net.au/ Oz Music Project...

Youth net news roundup. (Get IT).(resources on youth development)
June 1, 2003... Ausyouth resources on youth development are still available online although the program closed in late July 2002. See: www.thesource.gov.au/ausyouth/ Youth & citizenship questionnaire: The National Youth Affairs Research Scheme, through...

ADCA news. (Newsletters).(Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... n.14, March 2003, Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, ISSN 1446 8573, 12pp. ADCA News is a bi-monthly publication distributed to Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA) members. It provides a national update on the...

Article 13: Law and Policy Journal of the National Children's and Youth Law Centre.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... September and December 2002, National Children's and Youth Law Centre, ISSN 1447 2651, 20pp. article 13, the new-look journal of the National Children's and Youth Law Centre that replaces Rights Now, describes itself as 'a journal of...

INNOV8 project. (Kits, resources).(psychological intervention group program for children)
June 1, 2003... Positive Spin, comprises INNOV8 CD (2002) and INNOV8N group program. Adelaide psychologist Dr Carol Cayley is interested in promoting psychology as a service that should be considered an everyday part of life. She would like to challenge...

Plumpton high babies. (Kits, resources).(doucmentary on teenage mothers from Plumpton High School, Sydney, Australia)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Film Australia, 2002. Director Aviva Ziegler and producer Julian Russell have produced four 26-minute episodes in a documentary series about the Young Mothers Program at Plumpton High School in western Sydney. This program, which is one of...

Safe Places: a community cultural development workers' guide to working with young people from a refugee background. (Kits, resources).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Kara Beavis, Youth Arts Queensland, 2002, book 73pp., video 15 mins. For those not familiar with the term, community cultural development (CCD) 'describes a practice located between social work and arts practice' that combines 'social...

Suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people. (Reports).
June 1, 2003... M. Sankey & R. Lawrence, NSW Commission for Children and Young People, 2003, ISBN 0734771134, 158pp. The Child Death Review Team undertook this research into the suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people aged between 12...

Moving yarns: aboriginal youth homelessness in metropolitan Adelaide. (Reports).
June 1, 2003... D. Allwood, Department of Human Services, 2001, ISBN 0730891887, 82pp. Is Aboriginal youth homelessness the same as non-Indigenous youth homelessness? Yes and no seem to be the answers provided by this study undertaken by the Research,...

The forms and nature of civic service: a global assessment. (Reports).
June 1, 2003... A. Moore McBride, M. Sherraden and C. Benitez, Global Service Institute, Center for Social Development, January 2003. The Global Service Institute (GSI) was formed in 2001, through the Centre for Social Development at Washington University...

Regulating youth access to pornography. (Reports).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... M. Flood and C. Hamilton, Discussion Paper Number 53, The Australia Institute, 2003, ISSN 1322-5421, 24pp. Australian children see a lot of pornography. Nearly three-quarters of boys and 11 per cent of girls have watched an X-rated video,...

Training and information resource needs analysis of youth workers and allied professionals. (Reports).
June 1, 2003... Brisbane Youth Service and Youth Link, published by Communicable Diseases Unit, Public Health Services, Queensland Health, 2002, 65pp. Brisbane Youth Service and Youth Link are funded by Queensland Health to provide sexual health training...

Children, Young People and Media Globalisation: Yearbook 2002. (Books).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Eds C. yon Feilitzen and U. Carlsson, UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2002, ISBN 9189471156, 262pp. Based in Sweden, the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media covers research on...

Music education in a time of cultural transformation. (Arts, music).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... P. Shehan Campbell, Music Educators Journal, v. 89, n.1, 2002, pp.27-32, 54. 'Should school music focus on only subject-specific skill development, or can musical growth ultimately lead to a societal goal of cultural understanding?' This...

Music teachers and music therapists: helping children together. (Arts, music).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... A. Patterson, Music Educators Journal, v.89, n.4, 2003, pp.35-38. Music educators focus on teaching musical skills and knowledge while music therapists 'address nonmusical skills (such as motor, social, cognitive and communication skills)...

Historical perspectives on technology and music. (Arts, music).
June 1, 2003... P. Webster, Music Educators Journal, v. 89, n.1, 2002, pp.38-43, 54. In the 1920s, radio was the form of technology used in music instruction. Today music is ubiquitous in the media, and computer-based technology is widely used by music...

Psychology and music education since 1950. (Arts, music).
June 1, 2003... R.R. Rideout, Music Educators Journal, v. 89, n.1, 2002, pp.33-37. Four psychological theories of learning have been embraced by music educators in the USA since World War II. The first was behaviourism, which, 'saw the mind as the...

Learning across disciplines: an approach to West African music. (Arts, music).
June 1, 2003... F. Morin, Music Educators Journal, v. 89, n.4, 2003, pp.27-34. Music and the arts can facilitate cross-cultural understanding--an important aspect of the educational landscape of the USA. An interdisciplinary inquiry, which involves...

Peak youth organisations report on their recent activities. (From The Peaks).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... YAPA YAPA Youth Work State Conference 2003 Dates: Tuesday 19 August to Thursday 21 August 2003 Venue: YWCA Y on the Park Hotel, Wentworth Ave, Sydney The YAPA NSW State Conference will bring together youth workers, youth...

Youth affairs peak organisations.
June 1, 2003... Government Commonwealth Youth Bureau (Policy and Promotions Branch) Department of Family & Community Services Box 7788, Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610 Ph: (02) 6212 39117 Fax: (02) 6212 9577 Email:...