ABC Heywire

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ENTER NOW

It’s easy to enter Heywire! Heywire is a place for young Australians to share stories, ideas and opinions. You can upload text, video, audio or photos and every story is entered into the Heywire competition. Winning entries get featured on the ABC and winners get an all-expenses-paid-trip to the prestigious Heywire Youth Issues Forum. Sign up and log in with your ABC Communities account To contribute to Heywire, you need an ABC Communities account. You might already have one! Try logging in above, otherwise you can sign up for a new account. Once you’re signed up and logged in, it’s time to… Fill in your Heywire profile In order to participate in the Heywire competition we need to find out some basic information about you and where you live. It’s really important to put in your postcode and email contact so your story can be judged in the annual competition - your email will not be displayed online!  Submit your Heywire entry! Choose your medium below - do it! Upload a video story Upload a photo story Upload an audio track Upload a text story Or there’s still good old fashioned snail mail (make sure you include the Entry Form) Postal Address Heywire GPO Box 9994 Melbourne VIC 3001 Need help?  Visit our FAQ page or contact us!

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MINI SHOT: DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

ABC2 are giving budding film makers the chance to show their stuff and win a cash swag of $2000! To win the big bucks, enter a 3 min doco on Australia today that also features a numeric ‘2’.  If they love it, you could even end up on TV.

Find out more!

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We’re looking for one lucky local act to play alongside Flume, The Rubens, Seth Sentry and Ball Park Music at triple j’s One Night Stand in Dubbo!! If that could be you, GO HERE NOW!

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The triple j Road Trip Relay is now online and revving to go!

Take a virtual road trip around the country - and see Australia like it’s never been seen before.

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Thirty-two faces stared at me the day I received my nickname at the 15th annual Heywire Regional Youth Summit.

I heard a gasp and some muffled laughter, but the eyes were the real giveaway, they just stared, dumbfounded.

'Introduce yourself,' they said, 'use an alliteration and introduce yourself; it will be fun (they said).'

I listened to 16 others, I had sixteen chances to think of a plausible and acceptable word to precede my own name.

"Strange Steph."

Strange Steph, honestly, it was a hurried thought.

I was under pressure and it just sort of slipped out but, you know, these things come back to haunt you, and so it was that Strange Steph stuck.

Read Steph's full story at ABC Open.

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Marcus Johnstone spent more than six years in a Victorian jail after the crash in 2006 in which two teenage girls died.

He was trying to delete a text on his phone when he crashed.

Read the full story at ABC News.

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Thousands of Mardi Gras revellers and more than 100 floats have descended on Sydney for the event's 35th year.

Organisers say Saturday night's parade through Oxford Street was one of the biggest in the event's history.

View the amazing photo slideshow at ABC News.

Photo: A Mardi Gras reveller delivers a high strut on Oxford Street. (AAP: Tracey Nearmy)

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5 days, 9 unis, 3 states, 2 guys from Warrnambool, numerous activities: Tom and Alex’s O-Week Crawl went off!

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The triple j and ABC Open Road Trip Relay is now  on your internets.  Over 2,000 road trippers captured their summer adventures and it's all here for you to explore, with a soundtrack made up of triple j Unearthed artists.

The winners are up at triple j and all the entries can be seen at ABC Open.

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Anyone up for a 3,000 km run?

Yeah, me neither. But Nakita Sobczyk is bang up for it.

She'll be running from Byron Bay to Cape York, covering 3,000 km's in about 100 days. Champion!

Why is she doing this to herself?  To raise funds for SANE Australia because she is passionate about raising awareness about mental health.

Read the full story at ABC North Coast NSW and check out Nakita's winning Heywire story to learn more about what stoked her passion.

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Wisdom by Van Gogh, hand-lettered by Lisa Congdon – who has a knack for this sort of thing.

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Come see Flume, The Rubens, Seth Sentry and Ball Park Music LIVE at triple j’s One Night Stand! Catch it on April 13 in person, on triple j, ABC2, iView, online, EVERYWHERE!

But WHERE will it be you ask? Well, we’re announcing that next week ;)

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Teenage leaders tackle big issues

Arnab Das, Hao Zheng and Tionne Seden will act as the school's Social Justice, International and Indigenous leaders.

"Everyone should have equal rights," he [Das] said. "I've always wanted to have an opportunity to stop bullying. It's always been my passion."

  Read the full story on ABC Far North Queensland.

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Using data from his Opte Project, Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási, author of the mind-bending Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, says that you’re connected to everyone else on the web via 19 clicks or less. 

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0467 345 777: write those digits down, then use ‘em to request your favourite Unearthed song with Rosie Beaton! She’s on your radio Tuesday - Friday arvos spinning the best new Aussie music that you want to hear! Standard SMS costs apply. 

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Tom and Alex are hitting different Universities across the country on their epic O-Week Crawl.

Naturally, Alex tried drinking a chocolate chilly tuna milkshake.

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DAY 2 OF THE O-WEEK CRAWL

Tom heads north to Newcastle to clown around and sing THAT karaoke song you voted for, and Alex drives down to Wollongong for their annual O-Week pool party!