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The Australian Government's Building Community Resilience Youth Mentoring Grants program will provide $5,000 to $200,000 in a pilot project designed to help local communities promote resilience to violent extremist ideologies [...]

Highlights for June/July 2002: * YACSA prepared a submission to the State Government of South Australia's review of the Children's Protection Act 1993. * YACSA participated in the Premiers Drug [...]

The new pan-Commonwealth Youth for the Future (YFF) initiative was announced by the Prime Minister at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on 5 March 2002. The initiative provides [...]

The Commonwealth Government's apprenticeship scheme is to start a $32-million expansion next year. Employers will be paid $750 for taking on a new school-based apprentice, and a $750 bonus if [...]

Although fewer school children are taking up smoking--the first reduction in 10 years--health authorities are concerned that teenage habitual smokers are ignoring anti-smoking campaigns. A study by David Hill, of [...]

`Social venture capital' The world of venture capitalists has provided an unusual source of inspiration for a charitable foundation. Using the idea of distributing seed funding to innovative enterprises, Mary [...]