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For 13 years, Anna Dwyer traveled the regional and most isolated areas, working with some of Queensland’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. She has become a role model for a new generation of Australian women, writes Steph Carter, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Australia. My first real brush with a policewoman is one I …

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For 13 years, Anna Dwyer travelled the most isolated areas of Queensland, working with some of the state’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. She has become a role model for a new generation of Australian women, writes Steph Carter, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Australia. My first real brush with a policewoman is one …

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Libya has undergone a significant transformation since the toppling of dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. As efforts to turn the war-torn country into a flourishing democracy accelerate, young people are playing an increasingly pivotal role. Francis Ventura, 22, a Commonwealth Correspondent based in Melbourne, Australia, asked Ms Ayat Saleh Mneina, the Founder of Shabab Libya, the Libyan Youth Movement, about the country’s …

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 Singaporeans are caught in a vicious lifestyle that pits high expectations against the quest for happiness, writes Aristle Tay, 19, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Singapore. He says the solution is a matter of perspective. The year 2013. It’s a new year with possibly new dreams and aspirations to chase. Somehow, I am not too optimistic …

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An alarming number of young people are succumbing to the worldwide epidemic of negative body image, says Janine Wan, 15, a Correspondent based in Melbourne, Australia. At the same time there are efforts to counteract the harmful messages about so-called ideal bodies. On the 10th of May 2013, it was announced that the Positive Body Image …

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Young people are far more than tomorrow’s leaders, writes Emily Murray, a Correspondent from Australia. She argues that young people are already at work changing the world today. Is there any mainstream phrase more patronising and controlling than “Young people are the leaders of tomorrow”? Oh move over you older person! Young people are already …

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Australia must wake up to the impact of  its attempts to destroy the identity of Indigenous people, writes Francis Ventura, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Australia. He says without reconciliation, Australia will continue to be a broken nation built upon injustice. I’ll never forget the first time I met the kids I’d be working with …

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Young people from four Commonwealth Pacific countries have completed a one week Training of Trainers’ course in human rights and democracy. The training conducted by the Commonwealth Secretariat’s human rights and youth affairs programmes took place in Port Vila, Vanuatu from 8 to 12 July 2013 and drew twenty-four participants from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, …

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An alarming trend that normalises sexual abuse has become known as ‘rape culture’, writes Janine Wan, 15, a Commonwealth Correspondent based in Melbourne, Australia. She says in some cases, the legal system and media are contributors to that unsavoury culture. One out of every six American women, and one out of every 33 American men, …

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