IN THEIR most impressionable adolescent years, a third of high school students say they have experienced unwanted sex.

LAST summer it was Corey Worthington's shindig in Narre Warren. Now the axis for adolescent excess has shifted westward to Werribee where another teenage party has ended in police air wing intervention, a media frenzy - and even some bad behaviour from the grown-ups.

CIHAN, an Arab woman with three adolescent children, was given an unpleasant surprise last year. Her husband told her that four years ago he had taken a second wife, an Anglo-Australian who was now expecting their third child.

UNCHARACTERISTIC as it may be for an adolescent, I realise I'm not the centre of the world. I know I'm insignificant, small and, ultimately, just another dot on the page - but that doesn't necessarily mean I like being reminded of the fact.

NO ONE threatened to close down controversial photographer Bill Henson's latest New York exhibition, but his nude portraits of adolescent girls, taken at face value, remain unsettling even for sophisticated New Yorkers.