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	Schoolies - Rebeccas Community Schoolies Week
		Schoolies Week / Leavers Week is a traditional party week for high school graduates in Australia.
		Considered a rite of passage for students moving beyond their years at school, it is the largest youth event in the national social calendar.
		Rebeccas Community is involved to enable former Schoolies to pass on information to the next graduate class through our peer education program the National Schoolies website.
	www.homeless.org.au /rebeccas-community/schoolies.htm (115 words)

	Schoolies week - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schoolies or Schoolies week (known as Leavers' or Leavers' week in Western Australia) refers to the Australian tradition of high-school graduates (known as "Schoolies") having week-long holidays following the end of their final exams in late November and early December.
		Schoolies have similar traditions at Magnetic Island in Townsville, Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays, Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast and Port Macquarie.
		The rough cultural equivalent of schoolies in the United States and Canada would be spring break or senior week.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schoolies_Week (577 words)

	SCHOOLIES, FESTIVAL, SCHOOLIES 2006, SCHOOLIES WEEK 2006
		Schoolies is a 3 week festival for school leavers celebrating the completion of their Year 12 Certificate.
		The Schoolies Week involves groups of students hiring out accommodation, at their preferred destination, and having a week of fun, surf, shopping and relaxation after the pressure of Year 12 is lifted.
		Often Schoolies Week is the first time students have been on holiday without their parents and family so there are methods in place to ensure their safety.
	www.australianexplorer.com /schoolies.htm (249 words)

	Steven R. Robbins: Monomoy fishing calendar
		Week 3: Snapper bluefish are all over the backwaters, right on the edge of the grass at high tide is the time to be there.There are pogies in Cape Cod Bay.
		Week 3: Osterville to Waquoit to Oak Bluffs to Menemsha.
		Week 4: From Woods Hole to the Waquoit jetties False albacore are busting up all over, bluefish are closer to shore, and schoolies are mixed in as well.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~srobbins/calendar.html (1702 words)

	Schoolies week 2006 - Ultimate schoolies trip
		Schoolies Week 2006, gives school leavers the opportunity to spend their schoolies week trip in Vanuatu and learning to dive.
		This schoolies week trip is open to all ages and will give you a PADI open water certification, that will allow you to dive anywhere in the world for the rest of you life.
		Schoolies Accommodation: Is great newly built dorm style, with an excellent central communal area to relax in if the sun it getting a little too warm or a meeting place before hitting the town.
	www.abyss.com.au /schoolies.html (969 words)

	Schoolies Week \| frequently asked questions
		Schoolies week activities are held in a number of regions throughout Queensland between 17-26 November.
		In most areas, Schoolies will receive event programs when they register as an official Schoolie.
		Schoolies Week is the phenomenon of young people choosing to book their end of year celebrations in a particular area — traditionally Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast but in recent years at other locations throughout Queensland.
	www.schooliesweek.qld.gov.au /faq (870 words)

	Drug bust just before schoolies week \| \| The Australian
		A MAJOR drug bust has taken $357,000 worth of ecstasy and cocaine off the streets of the Gold Coast just days before the annual schoolies celebrations are due to get underway.
		Schoolies celebrations are due to get underway on Friday.
		Acting Detective Inspector Marc Hogan of the Gold Coast District CIB said there would be similar raids in future to break up the development of drug networks.
	theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20757665-29277,00.html (228 words)

	Pete's Fishing Reports
		The following bodies of water in the Northeast District were stocked with trout last week; Jamacia Pondin Boston, Stiles and Baldpate Ponds in Boxford,Sunset Lake in Braintree, Brookline Reservoir in Brookline, Massapoag Pond in Dunstable,Uncas Pond in Franklin, Pentucket Pond in Georgetown, Knops Pond in Groton.
		Bass fishermen have reported a good week with good numbers of smallish bass taken from many of the smaller bass ponds.
		This week the temp rose to 39 degrees.
	petesbait.com /reports/weekly.php (1631 words)

	Schoolies Week: Planning and partnerships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The planning and coordination of schoolies week celebrations are the keys to minimising risk.
		When a community decides to host schoolies celebrations it will often be driven by an individual or group, such as parents or youth leaders, by a group of business people, or by the local government of a particular area.
		It is also important that organisations involved in schoolies week are aware of their mandatory legislative responsibility to have child protection risk management strategies and child protection policies in place that are reviewed regularly.
	www.communities.qld.gov.au /youth/schooliesweek/planning.html (771 words)

	Should Schoolies Week be banned?
		The problem with schoolies is the 'toolies' that think at their age (19-40) they can join in with the celebrations and they can't.
		Schoolies is deemed a 'rite of passage' and although I dread it every year at this time it is not our right to take this away from them.
		When you think about it schoolies 'week' is a misnomer because it is longer than a week.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /eblah/m-1132691486 (1354 words)

	Hangers on cause trouble in schoolies week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Instead, the public get the image that schoolies week is an excuse to get drunk, pregnant or go on riots.
		Senior Constable Allan Hirsimaki, of Maroochydore Police said last year that 10 arrests had been made on Friday night of the schoolies week - none of them schoolies - and only one of the 36 offenders arrested on Saturday night who even came close to being a schoolie was a university student.
		The schoolies aren’t the ones getting arrested - it’s the hangers-on who are getting into trouble and giving the schoolies a bad name.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /dakabin/hangers.htm (425 words)

	Your thoughts on Schoolies
		Schoolies week is a time for school leavers to let their hair down and party after a difficult year with the HSC.
		I believe my daughter is far more safer this week at schoolies, than the other times she has gone to the Gold Coast.
		"Schoolies week is seen by your interviewee as a "reward" for 12 years of effort.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=73608 (2339 words)

	Byron Bay Schoolies Accommodation 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Schoolies Week in Byron has grown in popularity over the years.
		Abaccus House Have your expectations surpassed, be delighted and surprised by this gorgeous hidden treasure.
		The Breakers at Bruns A 4 unit complex, set on a quarter acre of sun-drenched garden with a cabana-entertainment area, ideal for relaxing barbecues with family and friends or for couples looking for a romantic get-a-way.
	www.byron-bay.com /schoolies (1121 words)

	Freehills - Article - School's out! 'Schoolies' trade mark set to be expunged from the register
		Justice Burchett found that each reference to 'schoolies' had been 'clearly descriptive' of the occasion and target audience for the services offered and was not being used as a badge of origin.
		As a result of the popularity and renown of the holiday, the phrase 'schoolies' week' is now defined in prominent Australian dictionaries, with the colloquial use of 'schoolies' being widespread.
		Further, Sports Break's use of the word 'schoolies' was as a descriptive term and that use did not render it distinctive of Sports Break.
	www.freehills.com.au /publications/publications_1394.asp (565 words)

	Casual sex among Australian schoolies Journal of Sex Research - Find Articles
		These "schoolies," as they are commonly called, are participating in an annual beach-side phenomenon similar to the North American "spring break" holiday that has recently received considerable research attention (e.g., Josiam, Hobson, Dietrich, & Smeaton, 1998; Maticka-Tyndale, Herold, & Mewhinney, 1998; Mattila, Apostolopoulos, Sonmez, Yu, & Sasidharan, 2001).
		Both schoolies week and spring break are holidays when youth travel with friends and gather in large numbers, typically at beach resorts, with the goal of an adult-free, responsibility-free, fun time.
		In an earlier study of schoolies (Smith & Rosenthal, 1997), two thirds of males and one third of females expected to have sexual intercourse during their schoolies week vacation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2372/is_2_40/ai_105518218 (935 words)

	National Schoolies Week Forums
		It had to happen - schoolies ends and we face life again.
		Schoolies in Western Australia is called Leavers Week - chat and parties Rottnest Island, Busselton, Dunsborough and Margaret River.
		If you are a parent of a Schoolie this year or a member of the community, we welcome you to post your comments in this section.
	www.schoolies.org.au /forums (306 words)

	Andrew's View - Should Schoolies Week be stopped?
		Another year, another schoolies week, another round of drunken parties, violence, arrests and calls for Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast to be stopped.
		Two of my family members were at schoolies this year – so as the reports came in of schoolies being bashed, of course I had concerns.
		Schoolies are registered and given tags to better-control who attends schoolies events.
	www.derwan.com /view/view.asp?view=32 (276 words)

	YWAM Article Library
		Last week Shirley Brownhill, from the Perth base, taught on Devotional Life and Fear of the Lord.
		Our speaker this week was Henk DePuit, a Dutch missionary who works at the YWAM base in Canberra.
		This week at Livewire, Joel, the lead singer for Supermarket Hero, gave the lesson and an invitation for people to start a brand new relationship with God.
	www.ywam.org /articles/article.asp?AID=182 (553 words)

	Amyo is a geek: Schoolies week mix
		Schoolies has started for young australian high school graduates and that means a couple of weeks of loud music, drunken screaming from cars and people waking up on the beach with half their face burnt.
		The criteria was a leaning towards songs from this past year, but could also include songs from the past 5 years (cause that's how long high school is) with a theme of drinking, partying, hurting yourself and pashing.
		I spent my schoolies on the Sunshine Coast where I was living at the time and it was the golden age before they started handing out condoms and drinking pamphlets, they didn't make you pay large bonds and there was no specific marketing towards us.
	amyo.is-a-geek.net /music/schoolies_week_mix.php (429 words)

	Schoolies week - HSC 2004 - www.smh.com.au
		Jamieson says schoolies started in the late '70s with Brisbane students arranging ad hoc weekends to the Gold Coast after their final exams.
		Her classmate, Jill Angel, is going to schoolies with a group of 20 girls.
		The National Schoolies Week website (www.schoolies.org.au) recently released a "report card" ranking schoolies destinations based on the friendliness of locals and other schoolies, police presence, availability of support services, quality of activities and incidence of predators.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/27/1085461880925.html (658 words)

	Should Schoolies Week be banned? - Print Topic
		She is a strong girl my daughter and insisted they answer her question that if it was any other week but Schoolies would she be allowed to enter as a guest of a guest.
		Schoolies week should be fine and safe by 2025 if that government guy gets his wish to keep kids at school 'forever'.
		I feel that schoolies who just want to have a good time and let off steam after 13 years of non stop schooling tend to stay in their local areas.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /eblah/v-print/m-1132691486 (4434 words)

	Hot topic : schoolies week 2006 [young people and crime]
		Schoolies week, or 'schoolies' ('leavers week' in WA) is a well established youth cultural phenomenon and is now a ritual for many year 12 school leavers across the country in November and December.
		In recent years, increased mobility has seen crowds of teenagers congregate in a number of key locations around the country, but smaller scale celebrations are also common.
		A new AIC paper: Swarming and the social dynamics of group violence addresses measures that can be taken to ameliorate the impact on young people and the community.
	www.aic.gov.au /research/jjustice/hot-topic_schoolies.html (785 words)

	ATODS: The Schoolies Week Health and Safety Project
		Schoolies Week is now an established youth cultural phenomenon that has been a ritual for school leavers for about the last 30 years.
		In the past, areas such as the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, where most Schoolies go for their holidays, have been adversely affected by large crowds of drunken teenagers and young adults celebrating their graduation from high school by indulging in harmful consumption of alcohol.
		Since 1993, Queensland Health workers and their partners in local government, Police, Emergency Services, Transport and the non government sector have pooled their resources to plan and implement a set of strategies that seek to minimise harm whilst promoting the positive aspects of celebrating this significant rite of passage for young people.
	www.health.qld.gov.au /atods/programs/schoolies.asp (329 words)

	Gold Coast Schoolies Week
		The report found that Schoolies is not a single organised ‘event’ that could be cancelled – rather it is young people choosing to book their end of year celebrations on the Gold Coast, in particular Surfers Paradise.
		Liquor licensing teams will be operating at schoolies and will target underage drinking, false ID cards and other liquor offences.
		The final program of events for Gold Coast Schoolies Week will be available to registered Schoolies when they arrive in Surfers Paradise.
	www.diannereillymp.com /01_cms/details.asp?k_id=92 (308 words)

	Queensland Government Prepares For Schoolies Week [November 11, 2002]
		State Cabinet this morning checked off all-of-government planning to ensure that this year's Schoolies Week celebrations are remembered for all the right reasons, Premier Peter Beattie said today.
		A Schoolies Video and a set of 3 lesson plans for use in schools prior to schoolies week.
		Throughout Schoolies Week, pro-active policing will be conducted by officers from the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast Tactical Crime Squads.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/11/02-11-11a.shtml (963 words)

	World Report 379 — September 2003 #01
		Schoolies is the secondary school graduates’ celebration of the end of their final year, a ‘rite of passage’ in which thousands of 17-year-olds saturate themselves in a week-long binge of sex, drugs and alcohol.
		The first week is for Queenslanders, and the second for graduates from New South Wales and other states.
		Steve Davies, 37, a ‘Field Ministries Representative’ (in effect, a youth worker) with the BSA in Queensland, is part of the Schoolies chaplaincy team.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_379/379_01.htm (802 words)

	Schoolies Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Queensland Government recognises the need for young people to celebrate the significant achievement of finishing school and is committed to ensuring these celebrations are safe.
		Schoolies Week – Celebrate but watch your mates
		Read about the agencies and community stakeholders involved in planning safe schoolies week celebrations and their roles and responsibilities.
	www.communities.qld.gov.au /youth/schooliesweek (241 words)

	Inspirations: ‘Schoolies’ faith patrol
		School leavers in Queensland, NSW and Victoria finish school in the same week this year, so accommodation bookings for later in the month-long schoolies celebrations are as strong as for the first 10 days (November 21-30), the official schoolies week.
		Not only did I feel a huge compassion for the schoolies on the street, but I developed a deep relationship with the community of volunteers, and a sense of belonging that I haven't experienced before in my life.
		Dominic says the 1999 schoolies week was the Gold Coast’s highest money earner; bringing in more than $59 million.
	www.catholicweekly.com.au /03/sep/21/29.html (853 words)

	Gold Coast Schoolies Week 2007 - Surfers Paradise
		Welcome to the Surfers Paradise / 2007 Gold Coast Schoolies website, brought to you by last year's seniors, and the seniors before them, and before them, etc...
		Everything is free - all we ask is that you check in here after your Schoolies and update the site for Schoolies 2008.
		To read about Schoolies holiday destinations, resort accommodation, tourist information and reviews of Surfers Paradise - Gold Coast and more: click on a destination from the menu on the left.
	gold-coast.schoolies.org.au (106 words)

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