The final year of high school is a messy one. Students are sleep deprived, overworked and snappy, and parents just trying to do their best end up copping the brunt of it. The cherry on top is how young people are confused, indecisive about their future and second guessing every choice they make. You’re trying […]
Everyday Gen Zs are side hustling, hustlin’, hustlin’, hust-hustlin’. If you’re not down with what a side hustle is, it’s anything you do to make money outside of your regular job. If you’re a suit in an office and have a blog with ads bringing in some extra dollars, there’s your side hustle. If you’re […]
Do you remember how boring school could be sometimes? You’d be slumped on your desk staring at the clock as the seconds trudged by. None of the words on the whiteboard made any sense. All you wanted to do was get the hell out of there. But what about those unmissable classes where the teacher […]
It’s the biggest lie we tell teenagers. “Fail now and you can kiss your future goodbye!” Because of this believing any one screwup can ruin your whole future is a thought which stalks teenagers every move. It’s one of the biggest traps they fall into. A 17-year-old from Queensland told us how this had been […]
Parents, you can (kind of) breathe a sigh of relief. The notorious Andrew ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’ Tate has finally been kicked off YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. Yep, after several weeks of the 35-year-old former kickboxer’s “violently misogynistic, homophobic videos” videos circulating on social media – he’s been banned and they’ve been taken down. […]
As traditional means to wealth such as stable pay rises and sky rocketing property values vanish for young people, more Gen Zs are getting creative with their long-term strategies for obtaining wealth. “This generation has a lot of concerns about debt and finances… and feel that everything financial is harder for them than it was […]
Let’s just make this clear first and foremost. We at Year13 firmly believe beauty and wellbeing comes in all shapes and sizes. Nevertheless, there may be reasons why your teen might be keen on dropping a few kilos. For example, they might want or need to improve their physical health. But trying to lose weight […]
When US teen pop sensation Olivia Rodriguez’s single “Good 4 U” was released in May this year, millennials around the world collectively did a double-take. “100% rip off of Paramore,” wrote one user in a comment on Celeste Nicole’s TikTok video which satirised the similarities between Rodrigo’s number one hit with 2000s American rock band Paramore’s […]
It might be odd-looking to some but Gen Zs are totally comfortable calling out to the open air and expecting an inanimate object to hear and respond to them. They’ll be scrolling on their phone, tapping their wireless earphones while asking a question to their voice assistant. That’s the future – talking to things. And while their debuts might’ve […]
Abuse and discrimination come in many forms. We broke it down into 10 major categories and then asked 1367 Gen Zs aged 15 to 24 in our national Big Youth survey which they had experienced in the past year. We found that 64% of young Australians have experienced one or more of these in the […]
Find out how helping young people into careers they are passionate about transforms not only their lives but society as a whole. We use our industry-leading data to explore how what’s going on in Australian schools is linked with the success of the country. In compiling this report we surveyed over 4000 young Australians aged […]
Ah, school camp. Many of us have such fond memories of this childhood rite of passage. It’s often the first time we’ve ever been away from our family, plucked from our day-to-day routines. The first memories we make without our parents present: surviving bush hikes and orientation challenges, growing through team-building exercises, connecting with our […]
More than a decade after his untimely death, Aziz ‘Zyzz’ Shavershian has made a big comeback. On social media, that is, with Gen Zs. But first off, for those of you unfamiliar with the man, the myth, the legend – Zyzz was a Russian-born Aussie bodybuilder, personal trainer, and model who created a cult following […]
Let’s take a time travel capsule back to eighteen months ago. It’s early March, 2020. A mysterious virus in China is making global headlines in the media. Days later, the world plunges into lockdown. School’s out, shops are shuttered and we’re confined to our homes except for essential activities like going to the supermarket or pharmacy, caring […]