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1. Family violence is the main catalyst for youth homelessness.

By ABC NEWS

A national study into youth homelessness is recommending interventions to help school-aged young people, who are couch surfing or have run away from home, avoid a life of adult homelessness.

The Cost of Youth Homelessness study is a joint project by Swinburne, Western Australia and Charles Sturt universities and will soon reveal the federal cost of youth homelessness.

The study’s initial snapshot report looked at the cost to homeless youths themselves, both social and psychological.

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“What would society be willing to pay in order to move people from a low quality of life, a life in which they have high psychological distress, and get them into housing and education and a full life ahead of them?” Paul Flatau from the University of Western Australia said.

The report found at least 44,000 Australians aged younger than 25 were homeless and most of them were couch surfing.

The main catalyst for youth homelessness is family conflict. An example of this situation is Lily.

She got sick of the partying, drinking and violence in her home when she was trying to study for year 12, so she moved out, only to land in a refuge.

“I cried so much because I was so scared,” she said.

“I didn’t know what was going to happen to me. I felt like I was safer on the streets than in a refuge because at least I wasn’t shut between walls of people I didn’t know.

“My mental health deteriorated when I was not at home.

“I got on drugs and was delusional. I was all sorts of messed up.”

The national snapshot found many homeless youths struggled with mental health problems and there was an alarming rate of attempted suicides.

“Around about a fifth of young homeless women and around 13 per cent of young homeless men had attempted suicide in the last six months,” Professor Flatau said.

These rates are about five or six times higher than another vulnerable group studied – young unemployed job seekers.

Half of the young people who tried to take their own life had not received any counselling.

This article originally appeared on the ABC and was republished here with full permission. 

2. White Ribbon Ambassador fired for plagiarising domestic violence article.

Former White Ribbon Ambassador Tanveer Ahmed has been sacked as a columnist for The Australian after getting caught for plagiarising a controversial article on domestic violence.

His sacking comes only days after he stepped down as a White Ribbon Ambassador due to backlash against the article, and two years after being sacked as a Fairfax columnist for a similar reason.

According to The Guardian, Ahmed was caught plagiarising parts of an article originally published on US website, The Prospect.

Ahmed wrote in The Australian:

“…it is critical that improving arrest and prosecution rates, establishing shelters and abuse hotlines, pushing for state provisions against stalking, and creating protections for immigrants all have the goal of getting victims out of abusive relationships.”

While Amanda Marcotte wrote in The Prospect:

“Improving arrest and prosecution rates, establishing shelters and abuse hotlines, pushing for state provisions against stalking, and creating protections for immigrants all have the goal of getting victims out of abusive relationships and into safe situations.”

Mr Ahmed’s article in The Australian warned current attitudes toward domestic violence ignore “male disempowerment” and moves by government to address domestic violence risk being taken over by “radical feminists”.

White Ribbon Australia received a further outpouring of complaints after Daily Life published an article calling out Ahmed’s article as containing “dangerous messages.”

3. Female managers are being paid less than their male counterparts, new report finds.

A study conducted by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed women are being paid less than men in management positions.

The study also found pay inequity also persists below management ranks with pay gaps favouring men in every non-manager occupation, even in typically female-dominated industries and roles such as community and personal service work, and clerical and administrative roles.

Director of the WGEA, Helen Conway, said this data reveals for the first time how the gender pay gap exists at every level of management.

“The data clearly shows women in management aren’t accessing the same earning opportunities as men. This is partly due to the fact that women gravitate to roles the market typically assesses as being of lower value. For example, we know female KMPs are more likely to be in support roles such as human resources than line roles such as heads of finance,” Ms Conway said in a statement released today.

“Employers who are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for women and men need to work harder to remove barriers that inhibit women from entering these higher paying roles. A lack of quality flexible work, the legacy of workplace cultures built on the male breadwinner model and gender bias are likely to be among the barriers that need to be tackled.”

The report also suggested that women face a “double bind” when negotiating salaries, noting that assertiveness regarding their value is viewed “harshly”.

4. Lance Armstrong ordered to repay $13 million to insurance company.

Lance Armstrong was ordered to pay $US10 million ($12.87 million) to a sports insurance company, as repayment for bonuses and sponsorship he received during his time as a Tour De France champion.

The ABC reported, SCA Promotions had paid $US12 million ($15.45 million) in bonuses to the cyclist, but demanded its money back after Armstrong admitted to doping.

“The case yet again before this tribunal presents an unparalleled pageant of international perjury, fraud and conspiracy,” the arbitrators wrote in their ruling.

“It is almost certainly the most devious sustained deception ever perpetrated in world sporting history.” 

5. United Nations defends Human Rights Commission.

The United Nations has defended Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs, after she came under government attack for the children in detention report.

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The Coalition ravished the work of Professor Triggs and called for her resignation, but the UN has urged the government to respect the findings of the HRC.

According to Fairfax Media, the UN has commended the report and the world of Professor Triggs.

“The working group regards [the commission’s] statements on international law and human rights as highly authoritative and their findings reliable, and urge national authorities to respect the rule of law and the international system for the protection of human rights by according the Australian Human Rights Commission and its President the respect that its role as the national human rights institution and her personal authority and high reputation require,” the UN report says.

The children in detention report found alarming rates of self-harm and abuse among child detainees, including 33 cases of sexual assault of children in Australian-run immigration detention centres between January 2013 and March 2014.

6. Singer Lesley Gore has died at age 68.

American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who shot to stardom as a New Jersey teenager and went on to co-write music for the 1980 film Fame, has died in a New York hospital aged 68 from lung cancer.

The Brooklyn-born singer wrote and recorded the hit It’s My Party in 1963 when she was 16, after her agent sent a demo tape to legendary music producer Quincy Jones.

The song went to number one on the record charts and sold more than 1 million copies.

Gore’s follow-up single Judy’s Turn To Cry was another hit, and she continued to record a series of pop songs before leaving high school.

A stand-out song was You Don’t Own Me, considered a feminist anthem at the time for telling teenage girls they had rights and should not be controlled by boys or men.

Music producer Blake Morgan, who produced Gore’s 2005 album Ever Since, said she was survived by her mother, brother Michael and partner of more than three decades, Lois Sasson.

“Everyone here is very sad today but also very proud of our work with her and this record,” Mr Morgan said.

“It is bold and courageous and beautiful, just like her.”

This article originally appeared on the ABC and was republished here with full permission.