Podcasts about australian youth representative

In this episode we speak to the 2023 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, Imogen Kane. This role saw Imogen travel Australia to meet with young people to find out what was important to them. Hear what Imogen learned about the generational divide, sexuality and relationships and the importance of listening. Resources: See Imogen Kane and the UN listening tour. For help learning about the programs that YP are using see the eSafety guide.  Youth Affairs Council Victoria has some great information about youth participation and co-design.  Find Sexual Health Victoria at shvic.org.au.   

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Nathalie Farah of Disrupt Wars joined us live from the community picket that's been running weekly on Thursday and Friday mornings outside Heat Treatment Australia in Campbellfield. The picket has been established and maintained into its seventh week by members of the local Hume community in support of Palestine, who are protesting against HTA's role in heat-treating vital components required for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter given their use by Israel in the genocide of Palestinians. Hume community members have committed to continued action outside HTA until it ends its contracts with weapons manufacturers profiteering off war and genocide.// Dr Sue Lewis, Acting President of the Victorian Forest Alliance, spoke with us about the recent announcement of the impending end of Vic Forests, which is set to wind up in mid-2024 after years of grassroots activism, official inquiries, legal battles and Parliamentary debate about the widespread harm that the entity has caused to Victoria's native forests. With the end of Vic Forests on the near horizon, we discussed the implications of its closure and what comes next for statewide native forest management. Respond to Kinglake Friends of the Forest's urgent call to action against Forest Fire Management Victoria's planned burns by sending an email (details below) or using the template here.// In the spirit of World Social Work Day, which falls on 20 March, we replayed an interview from June 2023 featuring Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis talking about the importance of investing in authentic youth voices, youth participation in mental health sectors, and advocacy. Angelica Ojinnaka- Psillakis is a youth development advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and is involved in a number of projects and organisations.// Member of Whittlesea for Palestine Logan Balavijendran chats with us about the snap action on Saturday 23 March outside the office of Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles. The action has been prompted by Australia's decision to cancel the visas of Palestinians escaping genocide,some of which have occurred mid air, leaving several Palestinians stranded with no where to go. Australian families have paid thousands of dollars to bring their loved ones to safety, only to be left scared and worried about where their loved ones will go now. Logan resides in Whittlesea with his Palestinian partner and sons. He has a career spanning education and IT, and is committed to community-building to hold leaders accountable.// Ashleigh Buckett, Principal Solicitor at the National Justice Project, spoke with us about the coronial inquest into the 2016 death of Faysal Ishak Ahmed, a young Sudanese refugee, while he was detained on Manus Island in Australian immigration detention. The inquest, which ran across Monday and Tuesday this week, examined Faysal's access to medical treatment over several months prior to his death, and assessed the circumstances of his delayed medical evacuation to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, where he passed away. With the United Nations Subcommittee on the prevention of torture making the significant decision to suspend its visit to Australia in late 2022, citing obstructions to its work and a lack of co-operation, the inquest into Mr Ishak Ahmed's death may provide a rare window into the draconian operations of Australia's immigration detention regime.// The image used for this episode was taken by photographer Matt Hrkac. Go support his brilliant independent photojournalism here.// --- Kinglake Friends of the Forest Urgent Call to Action: Stop Planned Burns! We need your help to prevent an imminent and terribly ill-conceived planned burn that will impact greater gliders near Kinglake.We've been surveying for endangered greater gliders and hollow-bearing trees in a beautiful, varied patch of forest in Mt Robertson Rd, Kinglake. In one evening, 13 gliders were detected. Numerous habitat trees with good hollows suggest that many more live here, as well as providing crucial habitat for all sorts of hollow-dependent species. In addition, many habitat trees with fire scarring near their base from 2009 (Black Saturday) were recorded. These scarred trees become more liable to collapse with each subsequent fire. Forest Fire Management Vic has just announced they are going to burn this very patch of forest within the next few days.Here are just some of the reasons that burn HR-MUR-TLG-0008 is a bad idea.We are appalled to think of the impact that this unnecessary fire will have on the resident gliders, other wildlife and flora and on the older trees that survived the last fire because of:the immediate effects of the fire and smokeloss of food supply for gliders as a result of canopy scorchcollapse of den treesthe increase in fire risk in years to come because of the pulse of shrubs that will grow after the burnWe need to listen to the research that tells us that forests need to be protected from fire until they reach maturity when they are least flammable – estimated to be about 4 years from now in Kinglake.We can suppress fire using rapid detection technology available now. Thermal and heat sensing cameras can pick up fires kilometers away if installed in towers at optimum sight distance locations. We need to ensure we have trained remote area firefighters.What can you do?We (and the gliders) would love you to ring or write to any or all of the following, citing burn HR-MUR-TLG-0008.If you ring you'll want to keep it pretty short. You'll probably just speak to someone from admin so make sure you ask that they pass on your message.If you write, you could just copy and paste points 1-3, if you don't want to write your own. Maybe change the wording a bit if you can.The Hon. Steve Dimopoulos, Minister for Environment    tel: 03 862 43101, email:  reception.dimopoulos@ecodev.vic.gov.auTom Goldstraw, Senior Forest & Fire Management Officer – Fuel Management– Murrindindi District tel: 0439 130 146 thomas.goldstraw@delwp.vic.gov.auChris Hardman  Chief Fire Officer | Lead Executive, Forest and Fire Operations Division, DEECA  tel: 0419 563 413   chris.hardman@delwp.vic.gov.auThe Hon Jacinta Allan  Premier of Victoria tel:0396515000  jacinta.allan@parliament.vic.gov.au

3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.// ​News headlines// ​We hear some speeches from the ​​Accessible Tram Stops for ALL rally held on 17th June to launch the campaign to win accessible tramstops on Sydney Road, before proposed rail upgrades remove 8 level crossings in Brunswick. First up, we'll hear Monica Harte (Merri-Bek Councillor), who spoke about the history of transport campaigns in so-called Melbourne from 1980 (including Upfield line closures) and honoured disability activists no longer with us today. We will also hear Elyse Cunningham from the FOE Sustainable Cities Campaign, who shared campaign information and the importance of putting pressure on government since “only 15% of tram network is accessible to wheelchair users.” Crossing removal is planned to for around 2 years time, resulting in closures to the Upfield line and adjoining bike path for around 18 months, leaving older people, people with disability, and many other community members with no access to the city of Merri-Bek, likely to lose work, and become further isolated from society. Currently there are no accessible tram stops between Park Street (Brunswick) and Bakers Road (North Coburg, end-of-the-line) on the Route 19 tram. Approx 200-300 people attended the rally, including music from the the Riffraff Radical Marching Band, stopping traffic and trams at the corner of Brunswick Town Hall.​//​ Angelica Ojinnaka is a youth development advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, as well being involved in a number of projects and organisations. You can typically find her speaking, facilitating, or shaping change on social inequalities experienced by children and young people, mental health, youth civic and economic participation, and cultural rights on national and global forums. She joins us today to chat about the importance of investing in authentic youth voices, youth participation in mental health sectors, and advocacy.// Then we are joined by ​​Ruth Nyaruot Ruach and Idil Ali. Ruth is the Future Reset Project Producer at Footscray Community Arts & creative producer at Next in Colour. She's multidisciplinary artist, cultural curator and community arts worker. Nyaruot uses art to understand herself, explore elements of her surroundings, heal, liberate herself and validate her blackness. And Idil is a proud Somali woman raised by the East African community in the Carlton flats. A settler on unceded Wurundjeri land, Idil embeds her belief in freedom, sovereignty and resistance into her work as a creative, youth practitioner and community organiser. You can find out more about the event this Sat 24th of June 1pm - 3pm at NGV Ian Potter Centre Free Entry - https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/ancestral-words/​// ​​Professors Judith Bessant and Rob Watts, both based at RMIT University's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, join us to discuss the youth-led Make It 16 campaign to lower the voting age in Australia, which launched on the 13th of June at Parliament House in Canberra. Drawing on their research into young peoples' political participation, Judith and Rob will unpack why expanding voting eligibility is not just important but increasingly in line with young peoples' appetites for political engagement. Judith Bessant writes in the fields of sociology, politics, youth studies, policy, media-technology studies and history. She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for 'Significant service to education as a social scientist, advocate and academic specialising in youth studies research'. She also provides advise to government and non- government organizations. Rob Watts teaches policy studies, politics, the history of ideas, and applied human rights at RMIT University. He is a founding member of the Greens Party in Victoria, a founding editor of the journal Just Policy (1994-2006) and established the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University in 2008.​//​ ​Event: This Friday June 23, ​​Oral History Victoria is hosting a symposium themed “Oral History Across and within Communities”. The event coincides with Refugee Week and is open to all members of the community interested in hearing about the way life stories are collected, preserved and experienced.​//​  The guest speakers are: Dr Andre Dao, from the ground-breaking Behind the Wire oral history project which recorded the first-hand experiences of people detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. These human stories became an award-winning podcast, The Messenger. He'll be joined by Dr Jordana Silverstein, co-author of the recently released impact report, Getting My Dignity Back. She'll be talking about -just how meaningful and validating it can be, to share one's story and create an oral history. Our fellow Breakfast presenter - Claudia Craig - will also be making an appearance at the Symposium! Claudia will be talking about the role of community radio in creating and sharing the oral histories of diverse communities.​//​The Symposium is on this Friday 23rd June, 9.45am-2pm, at Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday Street Carlton. It's a hybrid event so you can join online if you can't make it in person.​//​ To register head to: humantix  OR go to the events page on the Oral History Victoria website – www.oralhistoryvictoria.org.au​. ​Bookings close TODAY at 5pm so get in quick!​//​​​ Songs ​Leaving the Light - Genesis​ Owusu​Ocean Friends - Ellatronix ​ 

This week on the pod we chat to Lucy Stronach - the current Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations. Throughout 2021, Lucy toured Australia to identify the concerns, needs and experiences of diverse and underrepresented young people before reporting to key stakeholders including the Australian Government and the United Nations. A graduate of studies in Criminology, Law, and Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Lucy is a passionate advocate of youth justice, indigenous justice, gender-based crime prevention, penology, and evidence-based practice. Her work has taken her to the streets of Mumbai to fight for the empowerment of sex workers, to juvenile prisons in San Diego to aid young offenders, and to the UNDP in Bangkok to work with youth leaders in the promotion of human rights and justice. Before assuming her role as the Youth Rep, Lucy worked across the Indo-Pacific as the Sri Lankan Fellow for DFAT's New Colombo Plan Scholarship. Part of her program included working in Vietnam to combat the abuse of street children and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking, and after working at Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence, Lucy was named a contributing International Research Fellow where she helped formulate the nation's first public defence strategy. In 2021, Lucy was named one of YAIA's ‘Young Women to Watch in International Affairs', currently sits on the Sir David Martin Foundation's Youth Advisory Group and UNAA NSW's Advisory Board, and is consulting on behalf of DFAT and Natasha Stott Despoja to assist with duties related to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.Get in touch with In the House and In the Senate:Instagram: @inthehouseinthesenate / @alisha.aitkenradburnEmail: inthehouseinthesenate@gmail.comIn the House and In the Senate is recorded on the lands of the Whadjuk people. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Stronach, Australian Youth Representative to the UN, shares with us her advice on making real change, fighting culture shock and helping victims of human trafficking. Check out her podcast at https://ausyouthrep.unyouth.org.au/for-the-future/ and get involved with UN Youth https://ausyouthrep.unyouth.org.au/.

What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Benson Saulo is Australia's first Indigenous consul-general appointed to the United States. Amongst a long list of deeply impressive achievements, Benson has served as the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and has received numerous awards, including the National NAIDOC Youth of the Year Award and the Ricci Marks Award, and has been featured in Cleo magazine's '30 under 30' list. In this episode, he and Phil discuss what it means to be a role model (and being comfortable with that), how it feels sitting with responsibility, and how to know if you're a successful leader. The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Benson Saulo is Australia's first Indigenous consul-general appointed to the United States. Amongst a long list of deeply impressive achievements, Benson has served as the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and has received numerous awards, including the National NAIDOC Youth of the Year Award and the Ricci Marks Award, and has been featured in Cleo magazine's '30 under 30' list. In this episode, he and Phil discuss managing complexity, stepping into vulnerable spaces, and the difference between inclusion and diversity. The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Benson Saulo is Australia's first Indigenous consul-general appointed to the United States. Amongst a long list of deeply impressive achievements, Benson has served as the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and has received numerous awards, including the National NAIDOC Youth of the Year Award and the Ricci Marks Award, and has been featured in Cleo magazine's '30 under 30' list. In this episode, he speaks on the unique power of story in showing the bits between the highlights and steps through the moment when, with his father's help, he took ownership of what good character and leadership meant to him. The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

Chris Varney is the founder and CEO of the first-of-its-kind I CAN Network. Chris has a mind-blowing CV, including graduating law, being recognised as the Australian Youth Representative to the UN, the World Vision Australia's Manager of Youth in 2009, and the recipient of the 2017 Supreme Court of Victoria's Best Achievement in Human Rights Award. Chris also serves as National Patron of the Australian Association for Special Education and is on the Advisory Board of Learning Creates Australia.

Originally published with transcript at: https://www.nickfabbri.com/bloom/bensonsaulo Benson Saulo is an inspirational and trailblazing 32 year old Australian, who has had a wide and diverse career across the social purpose sector, consulting, banking and finance, diplomacy and advocacy. Benson has recently been appointed as the first Indigenous Consul-General to the United States, where he will take up his post in Houston, Texas at the end of 2020 along with his wife Kate and daughter Anais.  In this interview, Nick and Benson discuss: Benson’s early life in Tamworth in rural NSW, and his early career in the banking and finance industry following moves to Sydney and then Melbourne The importance of culture and identity, growing up as the son of an Indigenous mother and a Papua New Guinean father Becoming a husband and a father, and the role of family in Benson’s life Walking the Camino de Santiago and the importance of faith, spirituality, and mindfulness Benson’s year as the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations in 2011, and the powerful stories that have stayed with him from travelling around Australia The social purpose/impact space in Australia, and Benson’s work with the National Indigenous Youth Leadership Academy and other organisations Benson’s appointment as the first Indigenous Consul-General to the United States, and his upcoming move to Houston, Texas to represent Australia The current state of affairs in the US, with the COVID-19 pandemic, mass civic unrest, and economic devastation What kind of an impact Benson would like to make in the future Follow Benson on Twitter @bensonsaulo

Today we have the privilege of speaking to Kareem El-Ansary, Australian Youth Representative to the UN.This has definitely been our favourite episode yet, as we explored the conditions and struggles across various groups in Australia ranging from rural indigenous communities, to inner-city kids and even detainees in juvenile detention centres. Kareem provides us with a lot of insight into the surprising perspectives of Australia's next generation. This episode was particularly interesting for us because it opened our eyes as to how much broader Australia is outside of The Melbourne bubble. Just how optimistic are we about our future?

“Young people are vital actors now, they aren’t just the future, they can be leaders today… they can be empowered to create change if given the opportunities." For our eleventh episode, we sit down with Kareem El-Ansary, the 2019 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations as he embarks on a listening tour across Australia to discover the most important issues to young Australians. Together we discuss his journey into the role, the nuances of providing policy recommendations, the need to ensure young people’s voices are heard and strategies to re-engage young people with politics. Show Notes: Future Crunch [newsletter] Yuval Noah Harari [author]  Freakonomics [book] The March of Patriots [book] Thinking Fast and Slow [book] You can follow Kareem's journey as youth rep through Facebook and if you want to support the program financially, you can do so here. Follow the Project Lantern journey on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and our Website. Review us on iTunes or listen on Spotify.

Paige Burton was 2017’s Australian Youth Representative to the UN where she ran a mega consultation of young people in every state and territory and electorate.  You can follow her @Paige_Burton and even better, hire her paigeburton.com.au   With host @emilycmulligan 

In this episode, we sit down with Amos Washington, the 2018 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations. We get some time to talk to him about his journeys across the country, what he has heard from young people around Australia and what the 'ideal' Australia looks like to them.