Sarah-Jane Fenton
University of Birmingham
To finish the week, we continue to explore the theme of young people’s rights this time through a piece by Ananya Awasthi, research assistant at the Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI) at RMIT University and Master of Public Policy graduate. In this blog, Ananya writes about crossover kids who are children involved in both the child protection and criminal justice systems and makes the case for greater communication lines and information sharing between these areas.
Read MoreLast week, we published a blog about how financial pressures are impacting the lives of young Australians. This plays out in various ways, one of which is by creating barriers for young people to accessing secure and affordable housing. Below Kylie Smith, Operations Manager of MCM Housing and Master of Public Policy graduate from RMIT, makes the case for Australia’s Housing First for Youth Policy, emphasising the importance of housing ‘rights’ over housing ‘readiness’.
Read MoreYoung Australians are resilient but financially stretched thin. This new report analysing 2,731 survey responses and 150 interviews from a nationally representative sample of Australians aged 18-24 from 2021–2025 shows how.
Read MoreRefugee young people are often discussed in terms of settlement, integration and vulnerability, yet their everyday experiences of belonging are far more complex. This post explores how Bhutanese refugee adolescents in Australia negotiate belonging across school, family and community life. It challenges linear ideas of “settlement” by showing belonging as an ongoing, relational process. It highlights their agency as cultural brokers navigating intergenerational expectations, hybrid identities and everyday exclusions. In this post, Dr Nabaraj Mudwari shows how refugee youth experience living between cultures as a source of resilience, creativity and strength and asks institutions, especially schools, to recognise and value this complexity.
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