Defined Terms and Documents    'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills'  Early Intervention Programme 

Social Problems means Disadvantaged Australians with high Indigenous populations within some rural communities (eg. Bourke, Walgett, Cobar and Brewarrina in NSW) experience

high crime rates not limited to: 

            assault, break and enter, motor vehicle theft, malicious damage to property, child sexual abuse, neglect of children, family violence, crystal meth addiction

Also prevalent:

            youth suicide, high Indigenous incarceration, school absenteeism, boredom, social disadvantage, dilapidated housing, early experimentation with alcohol, petrol sniffing and excessive cigarette smoking