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EPISODE · Jul 1, 2025 · 29 MIN

Youth Allowance slump, childcare worker charged + farming without family

from Hack · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Student unions reckon it's getting harder for low-income and country kids to go to uni. So why are fewer and fewer students taking up Youth Allowance? Plus, 1,200 children will be asked to undergo health screening after police charged a childcare worker with more than 70 offences, including sexual assault. And we head to a dairy in Victoria to find out if a special kind of gap year can fix a big problem: farmers are getting old. Listen now:01:19 - Why aren't people applying for Youth Allowance?07:11 - The call to raise the rate16:00 - The allegations against the Melbourne childcare worker21:00 - Taking an ag-yearGuests: Charmaine Crowe, Australian Council of Social Services Zeke Bennett, content creator and farmer, Zele AngusGet the whole story from Hack:Follow us on InstagramSubscribe to the hack podcastListen on the triple j app or on your radio live at 5:30pm

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