Media Releases

Australia’s peak community sector and youth affairs bodies have welcomed a joint bipartisan parliamentary committee finding that two of the Government’s proposed changes to youth [...]

Yesterday’s federal budget places unemployed young people in the firing line, severely reducing their access to income support and making a rise in youth poverty and homelessness a real danger. [...]

Australia’s peak community sector and youth affairs bodies today expressed deep concern at proposals to deprive young people of payments and employment services, that would make it harder for [...]

MEDIA RELEASE – 19 February 2014 Australia’s National youth affairs peak body is giving young Australians an opportunity to share their opinions and experiences of the current welfare system. The [...]

MEDIA RELEASE – 20 November 2013 Australia’s peak youth affairs body has called on employers to open up the job market to young people in order to improve the balance of work and life for [...]

MEDIA RELEASE – 30 October 2013 Australia’s peak youth affairs body has responded to today’s release of the COAG Reform Council five-year progress report on Australia’s outcomes in [...]

Media Release Responsibility for Youth Affairs in Government has been assigned to the newly appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Senator the Hon Scott Ryan. This is a [...]

Media Release – 12 August 2013 The peak voice for young Australians has today written to the Opposition to urge them to match Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s $35 million commitment to skilling [...]

The peak voice for youth affairs in Australia has urged all political parties to place youth issues at the forefront of their campaigns if they want to win the upcoming federal election, with [...]

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