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Leaving home

Leaving home is often part exciting, part shitting yourself. It may not be your choice to move out, or you might feel ready but don’t have a plan of attack. Whatever your situation, the information below can help you get sorted.

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Moving out of home

Moving out of home is exciting, but leaving your family and living somewhere new can be overwhelming too.

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Living with housemates

Some housemates get along like a house on fire. Others are so bad you fear they may actually set the house on fire.

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How to cope when things outside of your control happen overseas

It can be hard being away when something bad happens back home. Here are our top tips for coping when you don’t know what to do.

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Why Harrison chose to stay in his home town

Harrison tells us why he thinks the future is brighter than ever for Australians living outside of the big cities.

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Homelessness

‘Homelessness’ doesn’t just mean living on the streets. Being homeless is when you haven’t got a safe or stable place to live.

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