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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Wont-someone-please-think-of-the-grown-up-children/ Prins Ralston’s piece yesterday on The Punch highlighted one of the forgotten issues in this election year – how do we get our young people into training and good jobs? I share his concerns about the impact of long periods of unemployment on young people, and the social impact of high youth unemployment. We need to have a real discussion about the increasing difficulties young people face getting started in a career, buying a house and raising a family. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Wont-someone-please-think-of-the-grown-up-children/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Wont-someone-please-think-of-the-grown-up-children/#item10708 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Young-jobless-and-in-desperate-need-of-a-fair-go/ The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Young-jobless-and-in-desperate-need-of-a-fair-go/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Young-jobless-and-in-desperate-need-of-a-fair-go/#item10696 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-if-you-dont-get-top-marks/ The world won’t end tomorrow. But sadly, it might feel like it has for some young Australians who haven’t got the ATAR scores they hoped for. There’s a lot of hype at this time of year as the uni entry scores trickle through. Kids really feel like it all hinges on this, like everything that’s ever going to happen will either be kick-started this week or not. Relax, kids. As Paul Murray reminded his audience on his excellent Sky News show last night, the world just doesn’t work that way. Murray himself scored just 42 per cent back in the day. He joked about it, saying “a lot of people will say ‘well, that proves the dunce that he continues to be to this day’.” feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-if-you-dont-get-top-marks/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-if-you-dont-get-top-marks/#item10263 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-doom-and-gloom-infecting-our-young-people/ It’s easy to write off young people as immature and ill-equipped to deal with the challenges of adulthood, when you’re bombarded with images of them partying and drinking. But scratch a little deeper and you soon realise that judging young people by the mostly harmless antics of a few is deeply unfair. Mission Australia’s 11th annual national Youth Survey – which this year tested the views of 15,000 people aged 15-19 from across the country – found, that in terms of their priorities and values, young Australians most definitely have good heads on their shoulders. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-doom-and-gloom-infecting-our-young-people/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-doom-and-gloom-infecting-our-young-people/#item10152 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-really-worth-risking-this-reckless-spewfest/ Maybe I am just getting old, but I am really struggling to find firm evidence to support the claim that this year’s Schoolies Week celebrations are more sedate and more responsible than ever before. Schoolies 2012 was billed as the year when the kiddies of Australia would show themselves in a more mature and dignified light, when the celebrations would be marked by a more sensible approach to drinking and partying. Demographers such as David Chalk and Bernard Salt said last week that one of the defining features of Gen Y was that it was hyper-informed about risky behaviour, be it the dangers of binge-drinking, casual drug use, or the threat of date rape from the sexually predatory “toolies” who like hang around the periphery of the schoolies celebrations. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-really-worth-risking-this-reckless-spewfest/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/is-it-really-worth-risking-this-reckless-spewfest/#item10028 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-company-that-marched-us-to-our-united-nations-seat/ As Australian diplomats enjoyed their New York back-slapping orgy last Friday, a bunch of men vital to their United Nations Security Council victory that day entered a paved paddock outside Wagga Wagga. They were the 50 members of 33 Platoon, Delta Company, who had just completed 12 weeks of training at Kapooka Army base. They were recruits about to become soldiers. The diplomats congratulated themselves for a sophisticated five year, $24 million+ campaign to win Australia a two-year stint at the UN’s top table. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-company-that-marched-us-to-our-united-nations-seat/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-company-that-marched-us-to-our-united-nations-seat/#item9784 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/homelessness-blanket-solutions-dont-apply/ This week is Homeless Person’s Week and for seven days coins will be collected, awareness raised and pledges made to reduce the number of Australians who don’t have a place to call home. Recent research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare puts that figure at more than 100,000, of which almost half are under the age of 25. On the 12th of August, Homeless Person’s Week and International Youth Day will collide, prompting consideration of some of the most vulnerable in our community: those who are both young and homeless. Complex combinations of mental illness, low levels of education, family breakdown, financial struggles, and a severe lack of services leave homeless young people in a precarious situation. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/homelessness-blanket-solutions-dont-apply/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/homelessness-blanket-solutions-dont-apply/#item9162 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/video-games-dont-stab-people-idiots-stab-people/ Here we go again; video games blamed for creating a generation of murderers and rapists. It seems that whenever authorities and academics have no idea how to handle increasing violence in society they pull out the dog-eared script from their top draw, call up the media, and run the same old lines that video games are to blame for murder, robbery, assault, bad manners, climate change, Lara Bingle and the failure of our Olympic swimming team to win gold. They said the same thing about the literary work of Emily Bronte in the 1840’s, dancing in the 1950’s and rock music in the 1960’s. Today NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione blamed the soaring knife crime on violent video games.  The simple fact is that violent people perpetrate violence. These young criminals generally commit these random violent crimes because they are predisposed to it; inflicting pain on other people provides them with whatever it is they need – pleasure; self-worth; social acceptance from their peers. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/video-games-dont-stab-people-idiots-stab-people/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/video-games-dont-stab-people-idiots-stab-people/#item9160 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shut-the-pubs-and-solve-the-violence/ Like many, I was shocked to hear of the death of Thomas Kelly enjoying his first night out in the city with friends. The vibrant nightlife is one of the many things I love about living in Sydney’s inner city. From performance venues and outdoor events to restaurants and bars (big and small), the city shines after dark. But unfortunately, stories of nights out being marred by booze related violence are all too common. Literature on alcohol related crime tells us that two of the most reliable predictors of alcohol related violence are the trading hours and the density of licensed premises. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shut-the-pubs-and-solve-the-violence/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shut-the-pubs-and-solve-the-violence/#item9012 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/getting-ink-stinks-kids/ What is the deal with tattoos? It seems that if you’re under 30 and you don’t have an article of clothing - like shorts or a sleeve or a sock - permanently embedded in your skin then you may as well be declared a social emergency. I may be 44 but I still feel young at heart and think I understand what makes the Gen Z’s tick. As a parent of four I’ve always fancied myself hip and with it when it comes to the realities of my children’s existence. I know that lives are now led in the fond embrace of a computer as all the latest gossip at school is amplified by Facebook. That’s OK. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/getting-ink-stinks-kids/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/getting-ink-stinks-kids/#item8942 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 The ability to get a job is a critical part of our kids’ future. If we can’t get that right, then we’ve got a question mark over our entire society. And yet despite Australia’s world beating, GFC-busting economy, we still have rates of youth unemployment above 30 per cent in many parts of our cities. In western Melbourne, northern Adelaide and far north Queensland the teenage unemployment rate reaches as high as 43 per cent.