In this 13 Reasons Why series we explore the different problems Gen Z are dealing with as told to us by them. Through their own words we’ll see what leads to young people’s mental health problems. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, *****, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, ****heads. We want them all to adore us. We want […]

Leonardo Puglisi is no ordinary Gen Z teen.  Arguably Australia’s youngest journalist, he founded Channel 6 News Australia while he was in primary school (😳), and since then has interviewed a string of high-profile guests which include not one, but two prime ministers. Now, that’s a pretty solid achievement for an experienced senior journalist, let […]

It’s every uni student’s worst nightmare. One minute, you’re sitting at the back of a neon-lit, over-air conditioned lecture hall struggling to keep your eyelids open. The next, your elbow slips and that little side-table thingy swings down with a loud bang, jerking you and several other bleary-eyed classmates violently awake.  You’ve fallen asleep in […]

It’s always been a source of pride being the first in the family to don a cap and a gown. But these days it’s starting to seem like everyone is wearing a cap and a gown – even when they don’t really want to. Getting into university can now often feel like more of a […]

As parents, it’s natural to want your child to balance their leisure activities with their career aspirations. The hours they spend immersed in video games might seem like a distraction from things that are a little more productive. However, the games industry has evolved tremendously over the years, offering a range of in-demand career opportunities […]

A new online learning platform has been launched to help school leavers and young Australians to be aware of and consider Human Services careers as part of a strategy to address the looming workforce shortfall across the nation. More than 250,000 workers will need to be found and trained in the next five years to […]

Australia’s teaching shortage is reaching a crisis point. In Queensland alone, almost 270 regional state teaching positions remain vacant at the end of term one this year. In NSW, where more than 10,000 teachers quit in 2021, unreleased federal modelling indicates the state will be short-staffed by a whopping 1,700 teachers by 2025. That’s a […]

If Australia’s performance in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings could be summarised into an emoji, we reckon it’d be this:  💅💅💅 That’s right, Australia smashed it in 2024’s QS global university rankings of 1500 universities around the world based on analysis and insights from more than 240,000 academics and 17.5 million academic papers – […]

In our surveys when we first started asking young Australians about their sexual orientation in August of 2020, 15% identified LGBTQIA+.  When we asked again in different surveys in 2021, that number grew between 16% and 23%.  In 2022, it increased to between 25% and 29%. And when our latest survey asked 1367 Gen Zs […]

There are many hidden costs of covid for year 12 students. As part of our Coronavirus & The Class of … The Class of 2020 was flipped upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. But was it all bad? We surveyed over …

If Coachella isn’t a utopian Gen Z fantasy we don’t know what is.  Taking a look at how most never get to see it YouTuber Charlie Chang went to the iconic music festival to interview a bunch of guests staying at the Safari Campgrounds which he described as the most exclusive experience offered at the […]

Gen Z’s on quite a roll. First, they ‘killed’ Facebook in favour of more visually-driven social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Then they ‘killed’ television, switching to online streaming platforms like Netflix, Stan and Disney+. They’ve even been accused of preemptively ‘killing’ the meat industry, with more Gen Zs – who are committed […]

Every parent wants what’s best for their child but sometimes we get tunnel vision. With Year 12 students currently preparing for their final stretch of exams, it’s easy to get swept away in discussions about your child’s post-school plans. There’s a level of urgency that comes with the end of school so close in their […]

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 […]