‘Sextortion’ is becoming disturbingly common:online scammers posing as attractive teens to lure young people into sending money or nude images – then blackmailing them.
For gender-questioning teens,it can be a complex,tortuous,lonely and liberating time:a time for parents,schools,politicians and the wider community to help,not hurt.
Body anxiety. Friendship break-ups. Social media obsessions. Tears,so many tears. For today’s Australian girls,tweens are growing up faster than ever. Welcome to the life of the “ten-ager”.
Rowan Baxter had barely ever laid a hand on his wife Hannah Clarke – until he set fire to her and their three kids on a suburban Brisbane street in February. The crime shocked the country,and strengthened calls to criminalise coercive control.
His comments,made on the eve of White Ribbon Day,add weight to campaigns being waged to make coercive control,or non-physical domestic violence,a specific offence in mainland Australian states
The challenges for our daughters in the response to COVID-19,and their inability to access the camaraderie of their friends at school,cannot be underestimated.
You’re not hearing them whinging out loud. This generation of 17-year-olds understands how far down the COVID-19 queue of concern they currently sit.
If there's one thing home-schooling is teaching us,it's how hard it might be to walk in your shoes.
For every act of kindness during the crisis,we’ve also seen how the fear of this disease can bring out the worst of human behaviour.
Principals across the state have already cancelled out-of-school activities,excursions and school trips,and are now gearing up to provide lessons to students at home.