What is the Queensland Youth Forum?
The Queensland Youth Forum is in its second year and brings together young people from across the state to share their views on key issues for young people and their communities.
Up to 40 young people will represent the views and issues of their peers, discuss and prioritise those issues for feedback to the Queensland Government, and work with the other participants to develop submissions to government and youth led projects.
The forum program will focus on young people's contribution to their communities both now and into the future.
The 2011 forum will take place in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane from 25 to 29 September. The Queensland Government will arrange and pay for transport, accommodation, meals and forum costs for all participants.
Applications are now open and close Monday 15 August 2011.
Queensland Youth Forum – Video transcript
Music (15 secs)
(series of vox pops)
Text: So…what have you learnt
Female 1: I guess I’ve learnt about turning community education into meaningful action.
Male 1: learning about what like cause other people around Queensland are doing?
Male 2: being able to just get out their and interact with someone
Female 2: just how beneficial collaborating with people from such varied backgrounds that you would otherwise probably not get to interact with is….
Female 3: you know if you have an opinion, you have the values and beliefs, you need to turn it into action.
Male 3: what I’ve learned is networking
Male 4: in high school I didn’t really know how to take action, and coming to this has really helped with that
Male 5: One person can really affect a great change and how to be an advocate
Text: Why should you be heard
Male 6: I think the youth should be engaged in every aspect of government decision making and policy, because young people of today are going to be living in the communities of tomorrow
Male 7: we are representatives from our community so we see, we see, all the problems
Female 4: we’ve got politicians and most of them aren’t our age, so we want to get them to hear what we have to say and what we think works.
Male 8: There’s not enough youth out there that get to have their say
Male 9: It will be the leaders of tomorrow
Text: How will it benefit the community
Female 5: benefiting the community because it’s empowering young people to not ride the waves of conformity, but to make the waves to bring about the change.
Male 10: to get everybody more engaged, talking about the issue, and then you know, you got to start somewhere
Male 11: I can ask what other people thought about, bring other people’s ideas and back to the table, back at home
Female 6: They’re going to be breaking down these ideas, actually making practical action plans, to combat those, then presenting it to the government, like it’s, you can’t get any better than that.
Male 12: How long have we got? 7 seconds? I was going to go longer than before. (laughter)
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