Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

Girl gangs, violence on the rise

"The number of underage girls linked to crime has soared by 58 per cent in the past decade, with new statistics revealing unprecedented numbers of girls suspected of assault, vandalism and shoplifting.
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There were 3622 girls aged 10 to 17 allegedly involved in criminal incidents in 1998 - a figure which rose to 5724 last year. And the past 10 years have seen significant average annual increases in the number of girls suspected of malicious damage to property (8.5 per cent), disorderly conduct (7.6 per cent), shoplifting (5.9 per cent) and assault (5.5 per cent).
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Adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg blamed the phenomenon on "appalling parenting", saying adults were becoming less and less involved in young people's lives. "Because there are no adults around, the kids basically run themselves."
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"They are just far more brazen, they're just not afraid," he said. Dr Carr-Gregg said busy parents were now "outsourcing" the parenting of their children to teenaged peers. "What we have is a generation which is raised in an environment where there are no limits, no boundaries, no moral compass," he said. Teens saw anti-social behaviour as the way to win notoriety and approval from their peers, Dr Carr-Gregg said. To progress up the hierarchy the girls had to "out-bloke the blokes ... drink and take drugs and have sex and commit crime". Dr Carr-Gregg said inappropriate role models offered by TV and music videos fuelled the perception that "guys are attracted to tough chicks"."

This is no doubt one result of the pressure being placed by society on girls to be 'masculine' and aggressive in a superficial and misguided attempt at 'equality'. More generally its also what happens when we work so madly to keep up with the materialistic mega-machine called modern society while we increasingly ignore such important intangible things as raising, not only our children, but the future citizens of this country.

Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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