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HANNAH<br />
16, BENDIGO, VIC<br />
Brash and outspoken,<br />
Hannah is a girl who’s<br />
out of control and not<br />
afraid to speak her mind.<br />
“Yeah, I have an attitude<br />
problem, but so what?”<br />
she says.<br />
Her mum Debbie is at breaking point.<br />
“Hannah does not live by boundaries. She’ll<br />
do what she wants, when she wants. She<br />
sleeps all day until 3pm and won’t lift a finger<br />
around the house.”<br />
But foul-mouthed Hannah doesn’t see the<br />
problem. “Mum asks me to help around the<br />
house, but I just tell her to f*!% off or ignore<br />
her,” she says.<br />
It’s not just her mother who cops Hannah’s<br />
abuse. She’ll talk back to anyone, even the<br />
police. “I called this one cop a f#&% wit,”<br />
she says. “Cops don’t intimidate or scare<br />
me. They are just annoying. I ignore rules. I<br />
don’t see the point of them. No one’s got the<br />
right to tell me what to do.”<br />
Hannah’s given up on school and can’t be<br />
bothered holding down a job because it<br />
would “get in the way of partying.” This<br />
means Debbie is funding her daughter’s<br />
lifestyle, including her phone bill which is<br />
often hefty. Hannah sends up to 500 text<br />
messages a day.<br />
Hannah is not used to hearing the word<br />
“no” and when she does, you had better be<br />
prepared for revenge. “Dad wouldn’t give<br />
me alcohol,” Hannah says, “so I let his tyres<br />
down and stole his phones.”<br />
Although her parents are distraught, Hannah is<br />
more philosophical about her behaviour, “Why<br />
get so serious when I could die tomorrow? Life<br />
should be all about having fun.”<br />
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