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Social impact bonds: why investors put $5 million into reducing youth unemployment

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Australia’s latest social impact bond sale has collected $5 million to help fund a four-year program that aims to reduce youth unemployment, and provide investors returns as high as 12.4% per annum.

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Collaborative innovation: shifting the dial on youth crime in Blacktown

By Sophie Yates

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‘Collaborative innovation’ and dance have given young people in Blacktown a sense of purpose — and cut crime in the process. “I know some of these kids that have got jobs and it’s turned their lives around”, says policeman Mark Wright.