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Youth Parliament

 

Flynn Barnard (year 11) presents a short summary of his participation in Youth Parliament over the holidays. 

During the holidays, I was fortunate to be involved in the YMCA NSW Youth Parliament program, an apolitical program aimed at supporting youth advocacy and giving young people a chance to get their voice heard in the oldest parliament house in Australia, New South Wales State Parliament.

Alongside 170 participants from all over NSW, I debated bills from Mental Health to Domestic Violence to Euthanasia and many more. As well as representing the electorate as Youth Member for Manly, I was also elected as Minister for Health and Treasurer at the training camp earlier in the year. This involved passing my own bill regarding pill testing and presenting a treasury report on behalf of all the other Youth Ministers in parliament, for which the premier, Mike Baird was present.

I was also awarded "Best Government Speaker in the Legislative Assembly". Being lucky enough to bring forward the issues and interests of Manly was very humbling. Special thanks to Ms Munro for nominating me for the program.

(Picture shows Flynn and the Youth Premier for NSW, Abby Butler meeting the Governor of New South Wales, David Hurley.)