Why are some girls so mean to each other, especially when they're friends?
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Rosalind Wiseman
Rosalind Wiseman is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. Rosalind’s book inspired the hit teen movie Mean Girls which explored the challenges facing young girls negotiating friendships in Girl World.
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Bevan Lee
Bevan Lee has been a central figure in Australian commercial television writing for almost thirty years, working on shows like Home and Away, Sons and Daughters and Prisoner. More recently Bevan was responsible for creating the long running series All Saints as well as the hit show, Packed to the Rafters. Bevan has created and written for some of Australia’s most famous “bitch” characters like Roo Stewart and Pat the Rat. He says that these characters allow us to titillate our fantasies of doing and saying what we really think.
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Demelza Reveley
Demelza Reveley was the youngest in a house of girls living together and competing to be Australia’s Next Top Model in 2008. Demelza was crowned the winner and awarded representation with Priscilla's Model Management for 12 months, and an eight-page spread with Vogue Australia in the 2008 September issue. Demelza’s victory was controversial as she was reported to be the ring leader behind bitchy behaviour which took place between competitors.
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Lilly Korsten and Eliza Marks
Lilly Korsten and Eliza Marks are best friends. They are both in year seven and see each other every day. Eliza and Lilly say they get on so well because they are both loud and confident and talk all the time. Eliza says she had no trouble settling into high school, has made lots of new friends and is having a ball.
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Katya Quigley
Katya Quigley recently attended her 20 year high school reunion. She had trouble making friends at high school and says that her memories of that time are overwhelming negative. Having actively avoided going to the 10 year anniversary Katya was very apprehensive about the reunion and seeing the girls from school twenty years on.
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