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Some Youngins In The States Won The Legal Right To Sue Their Gov Over Climate...
21 young people, aged between 8-19, from across the United States have just won the right to sue their government as well as big polluters over a lack in action to reduce climate change. The case has...
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How Volunteering Can Help You Get A Job
As a recruiter, those are the three things I look for in a potential candidate: Does this person want to work here for the right reasons? I don’t just want somebody who is looking for a job – I want...
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How I got Over My Fear Of Public Speaking And Decided On A Career In Media
Throughout high school I told myself public speaking wasn’t a big deal, but come the morning of a presentation I used to get so chocked up I couldn’t eat breakfast. I’d tone down my opinions, drink...
View ArticleHow To Give City Living A Chance, Even If It Scares You
Upon arriving in Melbourne I immediately began hounding my parents with desperate schemes for escaping the place; haven’t you heard that there’s an urgent need for young female bricklayers in the...
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Five Crowd Funding Projects That Prove Young People Can Do Anything
Crowdfunding platforms have helped launch hundreds of innovations from young entrepreneurs – allowing them to get the start-up capital funds and turn their idea into action. Platforms such as Pozible,...
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How To Harness Your Creativity To Get Your Message To The Masses
On any given day you might be competing with a baby monkey riding on a pig, Obama dropping his mic or Kanye tweeting something ridiculous. If you’re passionate about a social or political issue,...
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Congratulations To Waleed, The Logies and Diversity!
For the first time ever. The night’s biggest honour, the pretigeous Gold Logie, was taken home by a Muslim man. Leaving poor Scotty Cam feeling really under appreciated for all the life changing drama...
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A Young Indigenous Australian Reacts To The Budget
As we all do, I kept an eye out on what’s going to affect me or people like me so I noted a couple things that are likely to affect young Indigenous people (because I am a young Indigenous person). So...
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Are You Addicted to Your Phone?
Instagram: check. Facebook: check. Emails, Twitter, LinkedIn: check, check, check. I know that I am addicted to (anti) social media. The real question is: are you? I often find myself ‘hanging out’ on...
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Registrations For Young Social Pioneers 2016 Are Now Open! + Meet One Of The...
Apply here. Young Social Pioneers (YSP) is Australia’s only incubator for our nation’s emerging social innovators, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and changemakers aged 18-29 years. We’re calling for all...
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This 14 Year Old Melboune Woman Forced Aldi To Drop Cage Eggs
Her name’s Angelina. She’s a total gun, and she took to our televisions last night to celebrate her victory over Aldi. Just two mates, hanging out, having fun. Everything started when Angelina...
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We Want to Give You Cash Money to Start a Health and Wellbeing Project
Why? Australia is facing major challenges in health and wellbeing. Mental health issues, high levels of inequality and unhealthy lifestyles are all major issues affecting Australia’s growing...
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What TEDxSydney taught me about technology. And how it will keep us together.
For those of you who don’t know TED it is an org that programs and curates ‘ideas worth spreading’ from events across the world. On their website you’ll find the world best communicators and educators...
View ArticleWhy Reconciliation Week Is Mega Important. A Young Indigenous Woman’s...
The significance of Reconciliation is beyond imaginable. The restoration of friendly relations and the action of making all beliefs compatible with others across Australia could be achievable. The...
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Stop everything. These eight podcasts will make you a better person.
Planet Money Who ever thought economics could be fun? Me neither. Planet Money explains how the economy works through the age old trick of great stories and examples. Honourable mention to episodes...
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If We Want An Ideas Boom, We Need To Back Young Entrepreneurs and Innovators Now
Read more about our election asks here. Ask #1: Development of a coordinated national ecosystem for youth innovation – to back young entrepreneurs and innovators to develop and scale new solutions to...
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Fair Dinkum! The AFL Has Announced An All Women’s Footy League
Only a short six months after we wrote a story about how women need to be better represented in the AFL (we even made a timeline of women’s involvement) it seems like someone has listened. In a move...
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Orlando: What We’ve Learnt And What You Can Do About It
We all feel pretty helpless in the wake of a tragedy such as Sunday’s massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. At least 49 people plus the shooter were killed in what has become the...
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The Undisputed 10 Best Things You Could Do With $1,000
Innovation Nation will accelerate 20 young people’s ideas for social change in health and wellbeing with $1,000 in funding as well as mentoring and resources for your project. So if you have a health...
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Stop Accusing Young People Of Not Caring About Politics
She’s not the first person to have a go at young people in this context, just the most recent. According to this article, Credlin argued that many people lack “the fundamental building blocks” of how...
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