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Mildura. There's nothing quite like it. You're nearly 500 kilometres from the nearest beach and there are palm trees swinging in the breeze...
Welcome to sunny Renmark - with the mighty River Murray as your playground, and a bustling schools precinct including TAFE, primary and the folk of Renmark High School! What's there to do in Renmark? Well, lots apparently...
We came, we saw, we learned about the weekly ritual in St Arnaud. Some people call the ritual 'blockies'... if you're in Western Australia maybe you call it 'cuttin' bog laps'...
Having failed to catch the Swine Flu, having successfully negotiated giant trucks spewing scrap metal behind them on freeways, having been educated and informed about what people are doing online, on-air and on car bonnets in Albury, Wodonga and Wagga Wagga - we're headed out on the road again...
In the same week that a team of young Aboriginal Australians arrived in Britain to recreate the awesome, historic first-ever Australian cricket tour, comes another opportunity for young Indigenous Australians to have a crack at...
When you drive up from the State of Swine Flu to the sunny centre of Wagga Wagga, the last thing you expect is to see a grand greeting displayed out front of the school...
Remember a little while ago we brought you the story of the students in the Riverland who'd been working on a radio play...
What do I have in common with someone on the other side of the country? If you're logging on and uploading to Heywire, chances are lots, actually...
Things we learned in Albury: "Facebook is like Myspace for old people" - and what we thought was one of the more unique sports invented in an Australian paddock is in fact practiced by many of the students up this way as well - except people use car bonnets instead of doors. Nice...
Is it a bad sign that the first school we were supposed to visit on our road trip was put in lockdown over a reported 'flu case? Bad enough we're headed into New South Wales later this week - who now have a proper reason to not like people coming from southside of the Murray.....
There are class groups at the 2009 Melbourne Youth Water Conference from all across Melbourne, from all types of schools and backgrounds - but there's one thing they all have in common, and that is they will be receiving water from South Gippsland in about two year's time. How...
Rare are the young people who bring their dads along to gigs. Especially gigs they've organised themselves, involving hundreds of people... Are these blokes Australia's first father-son environmental science team...
In the 10 years since the very first Youth Water Conference was held on the shores of the Murray River in Mildura - since then, drought and effects of climate change have impacted even further on Mildura (this photo was taken last year near Mildura - not at a beach...) One woman who has been at...
Doesn't seem so long ago we were wondering if our mates in northern NSW were ever going to see dry land again... up in Queensland they've discovered even with the wet-weather belting they received, it was still one of the driest Autumns on season...
Up on the hill made famous by Batman* I sit in a room crowded with orange t-shirts, amid the constant throb of rock'n'roll through the P.A and the infectious burble of conversation from a few hundred school-age environmentalists...
There's some sort of combination gameshow/Footy Show happening in one room; what looks like a puppet show in the next - and two guys wrestling in superhero capes just tumbled into the corridor from next door. I think this is what happens when kids teach kids. Boring powerpoint presentations...
Approximately every 5-10 minutes somewhere in the world another story is published about the "death of quality journalism", normally accompanied with another long-winded whinge from some ageing journo that young people don't buy newspapers and magazines... The outrage...
No, it's not an emo thing...
It's moved off the frontpage (rural-based students trying to get to university not as sexy as city-based students quarantined with swine 'flu) but the discussion continues: are the Federal Government's proposed changes to the Youth Allowance going to hinder or help people outside capital cities...
She's been seen on the telly and in nwespapers as one of the very few Aboriginal faces ever seen on a reality show about becoming a model; but more importantly, she's designed programs for young women in schools and is now one of the very public faces promoting the benefits of goin to a public...
With the announcement from the Greens that they will force the legislation changing the rules over the Youth Allowance into a committee for amendment, there's been increasing discussion around the country over whether the new changes to the Youth Allowance are fair, equitable - but most...
They took to talkback radio, on occasions they were even spoken to by newspaper journalists, and of course they've been chatting with Heywire - but mostly the students of Australia have taken to Facebook to voice their opinions on the changes to the Youth Allowance in the 2009 Federal Budget...
There are two things that make Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young eminently qualified to comment on the Youth Allowance debate here on the Heywire site...
We've been reaching out to people doing a gap year - or still at secondary school and planning a gap year - about what they think about the Federal Government's proposed changes to the Youth Allowance...
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Well, it took a couple of days to dawn but the Australian media has woken up to the fact the Australian Government has just made the biggest changes to student support and welfare in almost 40 years...
Budget night is normally quite that - a budget night that does not normally involve excitement, interest or much discussion about who was wearing what...
Meet Alex Kelly - a young student from Albury who finished school and left town... but she didn't end up as another face in the Big City. She got on the bus and went north - and ended up helping to operate an art project which nurtures and promotes Aboriginal language in the red heart of Australia...
She started out with a small environment group at her high school - revegetating an area, bringing in recycling, discussing what can be done at a local level...
It was a pretty stark illustration of what's happening to young people online these days: almost a year after the Federal Minister for Communications announces he is forming a Youth Advisory group to find out more about cyber-bullying and what's happening to kids on MySpace and Facebook, two girls...
...because if you're under the age of 25, the PM just made a deal with you...
Author, broadcaster, legend of the pregnancy book which just about every pregnant woman in Australia gets handed - Kaz Cook, is writing a book about Being a Woman...
What about my rights? Are you infringing my rights? Do you wish to exercise the right to remain silent...
Yes, it's time for Twitter to step up and show its stuff in the spread of the latest incarnation of the 'flu, while elsewhere we see the mixing of the Australian political process with that other great consumer of keyboard time, Facebook...
Grab your camera, your crew, that pile of scrawled notes you call a script and get yourself in action! April is a good month to be starting/finishing/screaming about knocking up that short film idea you had bothering you...
Generation WE: The Movement Begins... from Generation We on Vimeo. A new book claims those born between 1978 and 2000 are not fat, selfish, gameplaying, instant-messaging, alcopop binging, violent, uneducated young fools - no...
A Victorian student has successfully claimed education-related expenses as a tax deduction, after a court decision that could open the door for thousands of student-assistance recipients nationwide...
Laughter. Tragedy. Sound effects. Action! It was a big night for the 20 or so students from around the Riverland and Mallee region as they stepped up and performed their radio play live to a packed crowd - and a statewide radio audience...
Hear the words "Port Hedland" and what images do you get? Mining? Big burly blokes in overalls with reflector strips? Do you even know where Port Hedland is...
The Foundation for Young Australians is looking for young people who are engaged in interesting projects - they want to add some funding, give some training, and generally kick in some major assistance to help you achieve what you're trying to do...
It's a collaborative project which has been getting input from young people living in the country around the Riverland in South Australia - professional writer Sean Riley kicked it all off late last year and since then a team of young people from around the region have been helping him put...
It's on again - the perpetual 'why are today's kids so fat?'-debate...
In the USA there's a mob called AARP - a non-profit, non-political organisation that's about helping people 50 and over improve the quality of their lives. Hmmph. What the hell are we talking about Americans over 50 on a website for Australian folks aged between 16 and 22, you ask yourself...
We're lacing up the boots and girding our thingos for Heywire 2009-2010 (ye gods! is it really coming to the end of the decade?) and figured it's a good time to explain that Heywire is now open 24-7 for entries...
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