Mission Australia

1. State and Territory governments must set targets to reduce numbers of young people in detention
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... territory governments currently had the wrong policy settings... for effectively tackling juvenile offending.   Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said research and experience ...

2. Drugs, suicide and body image - the issues of most concern to young Australians
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... Anne Hampshire, said this year’s survey detected important differences between age groups and gender on some concerns. Drugs was the primary concern for 11-14 year olds with 31 per cent including it ...

3. Australia's approach to Juvenile Justice must change
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... diversionary programs. Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said an upturn in the number of young people in custody, high levels of recidivism and the significant cost of locking young people ...

4. Drugs a growing concern for young Australians
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...  According to Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, the results suggest that early adolescence is the key time when young people are most likely to be open to drug education campaigns. “The ...

5. Young Australians wanted for national survey
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... Social Policy, Anne Hampshire, said it gave young Australians a voice across a range of issues with the information being used to help community groups and governments plan and develop youth services. ...

6. Body image the main concern for young Australians
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... Anne Hampshire, young people’s growing concern with body image should ring alarm bells in the broader community. “Not only has body image grown in concern since last year’s survey, but among young adults ...

7. Experiences of young homeless people make for a surprise
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... young people are more likely than other young people to identify ‘entertainers’ as one of the top groups of people they admire (20% compared to 7%). Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, ...

8. Sydney’s bed shortage crisis for homeless women
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... women in the Greater Sydney metropolitan area – including none west of Parramatta. According to Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, homeless men in Sydney have access to a larger range ...

9. Growing numbers of grandparent-carers evidence of emerging social phenomenon
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... on the role of primary carers of their grandchildren. Mission Australia spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said the numbers of grandparent-carers in Australia was highly likely to be underestimated and required ...

10. University courses for disadvantaged Australians offer a path out of poverty
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... and Melbourne soon to follow. Mission Australia’s National Manager of Research and Social Policy, Anne Hampshire, said Catalyst-Clemente had been an outstanding success. “Catalyst-Clemente students ...

11. New blueprint to tackle causes of Australia’s youth unemployment problem
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... international research and analysis. Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said Australia’s youth unemployment levels – while declining in recent years – remained unacceptably high because ...

12. The main concerns of young Australians: National Survey
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... concerned about body image. According to Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, changes in the 2006 survey reveal young people are confronting a broader and more complex range of issues. ...

13. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Sydney siders and their rural cousins
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... Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said that there were many similarities between what young people in rural/regional areas of NSW, and those in Sydney, are thinking, feeling and in what they value. ...

14. Youth Survey uncovers the differences between young Victorians living in Melboune and rural areas
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... (22.6% to 28.8% in Melbourne). Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said the differences identified in the survey showed young Victorians were confronting issues in different ways. ...

15. Young people in rural South Australia more concerned about alcohol, stress and jobs
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... Policy Manager Anne Hampshire are available for comment about the report. For more information, or to arrange interviews, please contact: Chris Rann, Rann Communication, (08) 8211 7771  ...