Day: 4 July 2019
Gisborne youth to table phone bill
July 4, 2019Left to right: Indiana Wales, Shaylah Lockett, Matthew Antoniou, Laura Tyack, Jessica Storace, Marlow Choi-Hatcher. By Sismita Sasmita Sarpudin Six Gisborne Secondary College students are advocating for a responsible mobile phone management in schools when they table a Bill at the 2019 YMCA Victoria Youth Parliament. Jessica Storace, Marlow Choi-Hatcher, Shaylah Lockett, Laura Tyack, Indiana […]
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Youth draft Bill
July 4, 2019Bendigo’s young parliament team. By Sam Kane A GROUP of Bendigo young people will push for compulsory LGBTIQ education in Victorian public secondary schools when they take to Spring Street for YMCA Victoria’s Youth Parliament next week. The program, now in its 33rd year, gives 120 people aged 16-25 the opportunity to write and debate […]
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Signs of a promising Youth Governor
July 4, 2019Olivia Beastly Photo: Rio Davis By Rio Davis Olivia Beasley is proof that young Victorians are passionate about engaging with politics. The Box Hill resident was elected Youth Governor by her peers as the face of the YMCA Victoria Youth Parliament program after demonstrating her enthusiasm and advocacy for young people. A member of the […]
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Youth bill might be state law
July 4, 2019Youth Parliament members Skye Gedye, Evangeline Kohler, Lucy Bice, Bella Weichard, Alexis Buccuacchino and Alicia Alvarez. By Lachie Abbott A team of Warrandyte High School Year 12 students have drafted a bill as part of YMCA Victoria’s Youth Parliament. Skye Gedye, Bella Weichard, Alicia Alvarez, Lucy Bice, Evangeline Kohler and Alexis Buccuacchino will present a […]
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Castlemaine students ready to take on Parliament House
July 4, 2019CSC students (Back) Shanti Steventon, Alex Marney, Amy Ferguson, (Front) Gek Wylde, Uma Dingemans and Niamh O’Connor are looking forward to their Youth Parliament experience. By Youssef Saudie Castlemaine students will be fighting to raise the criminal age responsibility in Victoria when they take to Parliament House in the first week of July. Castlemaine Secondary […]
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Students’ Murray–Darling Basin Bill passes
July 4, 2019By Ashleigh Barraclough Students from Gleneagles Secondary College have successfully passed their Bill to protect the Murray–Darling Basin in YMCA Victoria’s Youth Parliament. Year 10 and 11 students Jess Fitzgerald, Luke Gablek, Josh Davis, Fergus Thomson, Brayden Dopper and Julian Oraison debated their Bill in Victoria’s Parliament House last week. This includes a Victorian Royal Commission, the […]
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Inside Victoria’s Youth Parliament, where Generation Z helps shape the state’s future
July 4, 2019Olivia Beasley, 20, leads a Youth Parliament with 120 representatives. By Allanah Sciberas Victorian Youth Governor Olivia Beasley feels privileged to have been born into a deaf family where everyone could communicate using Auslan. But for the 95 per cent of deaf children who are born into a hearing family, this early access to sign […]
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