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National
Media and Industry Code of Conduct on Body Image
Media Release
05 December, 2008
http://mediacentre.dewr.gov.au/mediacentre/Ellis/Releases/
NationalMediaandIndustryCodeofConductonBodyImage.htm
Kate Ellis, the Minister for Sport and Youth today announced
$125,000 to develop a Voluntary National Media and Industry
Code of Conduct on body image.
The
Government is committed to tackling the issue of body image,
especially for young Australians.
Platform
Youth Theatre
Call
for Expressions of Interest for 'Death' - $5000 Paid Playwriting
http://www.pyt.org.au/
Platform Youth Theatre makes theatre with, for and by young
people. As part of our 2008/09 'Four Horsepersons of the
Apocalypse program, we want to pay a young playwright $5000
to write a full-length play which responds to the notion
of 'Death'. The playwright will work with a professional
dramaturge and present their play as a moved reading in
June 2009.
Working
kids need more workplace reforms -
NSW Commission for Children & Young People
3 December 2008
www.cnet.ngo.net.au/content/view/39725/228/
A public
discussion paper released today by the NSW Commission for
Children and Young People highlights the concern that the
current major reforms of workplace laws do not fully address
the needs of hundreds of thousands of young Australians.
Prepared
by Professor Andrew Stewart, an expert in employment law
and workplace relations from the University of Adelaide,
the paper argues that a consistent national approach is
required for children's employment laws, either through
similar legislation in each state and territory, or by a
single federal law.
The
Black Balloon
http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/black-balloon/
 Thomas
(Rhys Wakefield) is 15 and his life is in chaos. His autistic
brother Charlie (Luke Ford) creates havoc wherever he goes;
their mother Maggie (Toni Collette) is pregnant and has
to stay in bed. Their father Simon (Erik Thomson) is a soldier
trying to manage career, wife, autistic son and Thomas,
in that order. At his new school in Sydney’s western
suburbs, Thomas wants desperately to conceal his unusual
family life – and especially his brother – from
his classmates.
Livewire
http://livewire.org.au/
Starlight
has recently launched Livewire, a safe and fun online community
for young people (aged 10 to 21) living with a serious illness,
chronic condition or disability.
Livewire
is a supportive place for them to 'hang out', connect, share
experiences, creatively express themselves and realise that
they are not alone in their situation.
The
aim of Livewire is to empower these young people by providing
online access to inspirational and entertaining content,
interactive games and a full suite of community tools to
improve their emotional and social wellbeing, whether they
are in hospital or at home.
Australia
not lucky for youth: report
21 October 2008
news.smh.com.au/national/australia-not-lucky-for-youth-report-20081021-55ab.html
A report
that shows Australia is not the lucky country for its youth
should act as a policy wake-up call, the federal government
says.
The
Research Alliance for Children and Youth compared health,
education, employment and family relationships of Australians
aged up to 24 with those in other developed nations.
Biting
Anorexia
A first-hand account of an internal
war
Lucy Howard-Taylor
‘My name is Lucy. I am in recovery from anorexia nervosa
and major depression, each of which almost killed me.’
So begins
this extraordinary depiction by an 18-year-old woman of
her descent into the tortured existence of anorexia and
her arduous and remarkable recovery from it.
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