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After extended lockdowns, Tarneit Senior College students are advocating for greater mental health confidentiality.
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A group of five young people from Ballarat are fighting for better buses in the regional city as part of the YMCA’s Victorian Youth Parliament program.
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Victoria’s youth want to see the age of criminal responsibility raised from 10 to 14, with a bill passing Victorian Youth Parliament last Monday that sets out to do just that.
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Six young students from Westbourne Grammar in Melbourne’s west have fought for compulsory LGBTQIA+ education in primary schools.
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They hope their audience nonetheless came away from the debate thinking, “this is something that needs to change”.
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Young Victorians have shown their support for mandatory gender-neutral bathrooms in all public buildings this week.
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Bills young people present at the Victoria Youth Parliament show the us the world they want to live in.
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The Victoria Youth Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of Mandatory Reconciliation Action Plans in Schools.
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Lockdown hasn’t stopped Newhaven College students advocating for compulsory empathy training surrounding sensitive issues for Victorian Police, at the YMCA Victoria Youth Parliament.
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A team of six young people from Moyne Shire were thrilled when their Sustainable Agriculture Incentives Bill passed the Victorian Youth Parliament.
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Jacob from YPG sat down with a bunch of this year’s Youth Parliament participants and Taskforce to discuss all things youth politics.
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Chloe, 17, went to the bathroom at their school in Castlemaine one day, only to find that the door was locked.”
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A team of students from Keilor believe they have a solution to the state’s hooning problem, which they are taking to parliament.
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Topics debated in the Youth Parliament show what really matters to young people. So which bills passed and which didn’t? Full list of bills passed 2021: Compulsory First Nations Education in Schools Bill Compulsory LGBTQI+ Education for Upper Primary School Students Bill Compulsory Training for Victorian Police Surrounding Sensitive Issues Bill Criminalisation of Coercive Control […]
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