If you have Gen Z children who are planning to explore the world, you’re likely concerned about how they’ll manage… As parents, it’s natural to worry about your Gen Z children when they’re traveling abroad. While getting ripped off may… With Gen Zs, Gen Ys, Gen Xs and Baby Boomers working side-by-side today, being able […]
Let’s talk about sex. For young people, hearing those four words from your parents can be even more cringeworthy than an outdated meme. Thankfully, a British teen comedy-drama on Netflix can tackle this tricky subject like few other shows have. Sex Education (2019 to present) mainly follows Otis, a teen who starts an underground sex […]
Puberty and body image don’t have the best relationship. Throw sport in the mix and for some young people it’s a match made in hell. Because as we’ve found in our Year13 & Visa PlayOn youth sport research, body image issues are a leading factor for why young Australians drop out of playing sport. In […]
The time has finally come. It’s a dystopia that was foretold in sci-fi movies and predicted by scientists. A future where people are replaced by robots. Okay, maybe we’re being a bit dramatic. But the release of ChatGPT, a technology that can write seemingly anything from essays to tweets and legal contracts to SEO content, […]
If you have Gen Z children who are planning to explore the world, you’re likely concerned about how they’ll manage… Read more As parents, it’s natural to worry about your Gen Z children when they’re traveling abroad. While getting ripped off may… Read more Following the society-shifting developments of the last few years Year13’s After […]
Australian businesswoman Robyn Denholm is kind of a big deal. Not only is she Chair of the Australian Tech Council and operating partner at BlackBird Ventures Australia, she also succeeded none other than Elon Musk as Chair of Tesla. Yeah. She’s got many, many leatherbound books. And her apartment smells of rich mahogany (that’s an […]
Gen Zs can basically only remember time from 2000 onwards. That was just around when Apple started releasing its colourful iMacs and launched the iPod and heavily marketed the idea that PCs aren’t cool. But that doesn’t seem to have stopped them with the majority (57%) of Gen Zs we surveyed for our What Gen Z […]
Famous words uttered by tech godfather Steve Jobs still reverberate in the mind of Mike Cannon-Brookes today. And it’s these words from the American co-founder of Apple which the Australian co-founder of Atlassian gives as advice to young people interested in forging a career in tech like they both did. It might seem unconventional but […]
We hate to break it to you Tinder (and Bumble, and Hinge, and Grindr…), but it looks like you’re next on Gen Z’s hit list. Sure, you might have dominated the online dating scene for the past decade and established the default way for people to date and find love. But with more millennials settling […]
Blake’s understanding of youth ensures we are never far from the pulse of young Australians. Even though he’s one of the oldest in the office, he’s young at heart (and in face). Emma is the brains behind much of what you read on Year13’s site and social media channels. Joseph has the sage advice for […]
It used to be the rite of passage of all rites of passages. Twelve years of schooling finally under the … Gen Z has been called many things, but their latest nickname might surprise you. May we introduce you to Generation …
School’s over. Does that mean school friendships are over too? It doesn’t have to. But it also means there’s a new opportunity like never before for young people to make new friends too. The thing is for some young people though maintaining friendships after high school isn’t easy, but just because they aren’t spending all […]
Busted. When The Sun-Herald in 2019 reported that Cricket Australia inflated their sport participation numbers to appeal to sponsors, the… Read more Gap years are a historic rite of passage. An entire year dedicated to exploring a way of life different on… Read more It’s bizarre, isn’t it? Gen Zs go to school to study […]
Parents know the drill all too well. It’s Monday morning, 7:15am. The sun has risen, the birds are singing and… Read more School students are being left in the dark about one of Australia’s fastest-growing future industries, according to our latest research…. Read more In February 2021, Chanel Contos polled her Instagram followers asking if […]