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Every year, Mission Australia asks young people aged 15-19 living in Australia about their opinions, experiences and concerns in the Youth Study. In 2020 there were 25,800 respondents to the Youth Survey. Of the 39 questions asked one was 'In the past year, what is the biggest issue that you have been dealing with? What do you think needs to be done about it?' In 2020, 18,486 young people provided a written response to this question, highlighting a range of key concerns including [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19, which was one of the top three personal concerns for young respondents in 2020. Amongst respondents who cited COVID-19 as the biggest personal concern they had been dealing with in the past year, many wrote that impacts on their education, being and feeling isolated and mental health were the domains in their life most affected. In this report we provide an analysis of the qualitative responses of those who described the nature and experience of COVID-19 on their education, sense of isolation and mental health.

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