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Not kids anymore: climate students march with worldly passion

Mar 15, 2019

Why teens’ protests over US gun laws demand serious attention

Feb 21, 2018

Don Dale youth detention facility (IMAGE credit: AAP/NEDA VANOVAC)

Suppliers of Don Dale tear gas revealed

Northern Territory

Sep 16, 2016

<b>Phillip Frazer</b> didn't know a lot about music when he launched <em>Go-Set</em> with his friend Tony Schauble in 1966. But what a glorious ride it was.

Sex, drugs and Molly Meldrum: behind the scenes of counter-culture mag Go-Set

Feb 05, 2016

Let's not be too hard on Eddie McGuire, the Coalition stabs Labor in the back over donations, and other political issues of the day.

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

May 30, 2013

<em>Crikey</em> work experience kid and angry teen <b>Ruby Krupka</b> writes on societal changes made under the Baillieu government, from on-the-spot swearing fines to openly gay students being allowed to get expelled from religious schools.

I’m a teenager and the Baillieu government is f*cked

Jun 30, 2011

One day, a 14 year old girl sent a picture of herself naked to her boyfriend. Within weeks the entire school had seen the photo, children were charged with child pornography distribution and an entire community was battling the distressing effects of child 'sexting'.

One naked photo, many lives ruined

Mar 29, 2011

"You're dead meat, you nerd!" yells the bully as he trips over/throws in a pool/gives a wedgie to the dorky kid in front of the cute girl, in this magnificent tribute to the bullies from '80s teen movies.

Wedgies, geeks and rodents: bullies in the ’80s

May 19, 2010

Whether it's used instead of um, a pause or just while you grasp around for something witty to say, <b>Christopher Hitchen</b> explores how the grammar battle was lost with uptalk and filler words. And it's not just teens who are to blame.

You know, like, whatever: the fiasco of filler words

Jan 14, 2010

It's absurd to <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26210562-7583,00.html">claim</a> 16 year olds are not capable of having political opinions and voting on them, says <b>Hugh Jorgensen</b. They can have sex, leave school, join the defence force, get a job and engage with technology. So why can't they vote?</b>

Sweet sixteen and never been polled

Nov 04, 2009

ABC journo <b>Leigh Sales</b> takes a peek into her self absorbed (but with meticulously handwriting!) teenage diary, examining her rants against her dad and the most popular kids in school.

Want to read Leigh Sales diary?

Oct 07, 2009

It's a question with which the media has become a little obsessed: <a hre="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html">Why</a> <a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/teens-dont-tweet-twitters-growth-not-fueled-by-youth">don't</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/09/social-networking-family-friends">teens</a> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5819246/Morgan-Stanley-publish-teens-paper-on-Twitter-and-mobiles.html">use</a> <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/08/05/teens-dont-tweet/">Twitter?</a> So <em>Mashable</em> asked 10,000 of them and found: a) actually, plenty of them <em>do</em>, and b) those who don't, prefer Facebook and MySpace. Just like plenty of adults.

Why aren’t teens tweeting?

Sep 01, 2009

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