The 2007 National Youth Conference proceedings and a short film are now available to be downloaded. The documents below contain an overview of the three days, a summary of the conference evaluations and 20 peer reviewed academic papers that were presented at the conference.

The document are sizable, so if you would like to receive a PDF of one or two specific academic papers please email Liz Leahy at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the name of the paper and the page number and she will email you directly.

Our sincere thanks to the Youth Research Centre, Melbourne University for their co-ordination of the peer reviewed papers and to the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies for the compiling and editing of the conference proceedings.

Download the conference proceedings here: Papers (1.3MB)  Report (3.3MB).

A short film (in two parts) from the conference have also been released. Simply click on the screen below to see conference delegates tackle the hard questions - are we there yet?

Part 1 

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Part 2

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