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Speaker 1: Happy hump Day everybody, and welcome to the Daily OS.

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Speaker 1: My name is Sam and I'm joined by Zara on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the twentieth of October. Before we get into today's news,

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Speaker 1: here are some COVID numbers from around the country. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: in Victoria there were seventeen hundred and forty nine new cases.

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Speaker 1: New South Wales record two hundred and seventy three cases,

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Speaker 1: and in the Act there were twenty four cases. Zara,

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Speaker 1: we haven't heard much from the West coast of Australia.

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Speaker 1: What's news out west today?

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Speaker 2: Yesterday we heard from WA Premier Mark McGowan, who said

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Speaker 2: he won't be following Queensland's lead by announcing a plan

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Speaker 2: to open the state's borders for Christmas. McGowan said that

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Speaker 2: by opening up in December, the state would have to

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Speaker 2: introduce mask mandates.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the New South Wales government has announced five hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars in funding for survivors of domestic violence, with

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Speaker 1: funding predominantly focusing on women's refuges and emergency housing. New

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Speaker 1: South Wales Premier Dominique Perite says this is the single

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Speaker 1: biggest investment in tackling domestic and family violence in New

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Speaker 1: South Wales's history.

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Speaker 2: A new report by We Protect Global Alliance has found

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Speaker 2: sixty seven percent of eighteen to twenty year olds in

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Speaker 2: Australia and New Zealand have experienced online sexual harm before

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Speaker 2: they turned eighteen. This is deeply worrying and is higher

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Speaker 2: than many other countries around the world.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. Chris Hemsworth has agreed to visit

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Speaker 1: the New South Wales regional town of Cawra after its

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Speaker 1: residents launched a campaign asking him to become its tourism ambassador.

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Speaker 1: I will make a note not to go to Cara

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Speaker 1: so that people don't get us confused. Hemsworth promised to

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Speaker 1: go in twenty twenty two, saying the campaign warmed his

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Speaker 1: heart and smile.

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Speaker 3: We need to reach net zero emissions yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Our actions to prevent climate change have been limited, with

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Speaker 1: Australia ranking last in climate change action among the UN members.

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Speaker 4: I'm scared. I am scared because we are in a

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Speaker 4: slow motion car crash and the brakes are perfectly functional,

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Speaker 4: but we all seem to be asleep at the wheel,

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Speaker 4: and it scares me about what the future holds if

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Speaker 4: the current system is left to neglect getting rid of

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Speaker 4: plastic straws is not enough. We need to eliminate plastic cups,

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Speaker 4: plastic bags and all single use plastics. This is about

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Speaker 4: the future of my country.

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Speaker 3: We are grieving a future that you are dismantling before

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Speaker 3: our eyes.

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Speaker 4: I want to see active, wide scale efforts to clean

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Speaker 4: up our planets.

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Speaker 1: It's heartbreaking watching good, hard working Australians face the impacts

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Speaker 1: that are a result of profit over people.

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Speaker 4: The current mental health care system needs a dire overhaul.

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Speaker 4: Everyone is all for mental health advocacy until it means

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Speaker 4: having to pay for more services.

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Speaker 3: We need ambitious policies that give us hope.

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Speaker 4: I want people who look like me to make decisions

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Speaker 4: about me, and I dare to dream of a nation

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Speaker 4: united despite how different faces and races, accountable for its

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Speaker 4: tainted past, undervaluing of diversity and abuses of power.

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Speaker 2: To see more diverse representation in the Australian government and media.

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Speaker 4: We girls deserve equality. I dare to see the gap closed.

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Speaker 2: I would like to be treated like a person, not

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Speaker 2: a person with disabilities.

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Speaker 3: Australia needs to develop a national housing strategy. We are

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Speaker 3: sick and tired of empty gestures and reckless policy to

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Speaker 3: secure the future.

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Speaker 5: We have to start now.

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Speaker 4: I am sixteen years old. I don't have all the answers,

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Speaker 4: but you have all the power to make change.

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Speaker 5: What side of history will you stand on?

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Speaker 2: So what you just heard then was the voices of

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Speaker 2: parliamentarians in Federal Parliament talking on behalf of young people.

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Speaker 2: And that's because there is a campaign to have the

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Speaker 2: speeches of young people read in Parliament House by our

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Speaker 2: federal elected members. Now this isn't something that happens every day.

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Speaker 2: We of course know that young people are not often

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Speaker 2: reflected in the political class and that is why this

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Speaker 2: campaign was created. It's part of the Raise Our Voice campaign,

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Speaker 2: which asks young people to write a ninety second speech

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Speaker 2: on the topic what would you like Australia to look

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Speaker 2: like in twenty years in what would challenge any preconceptions

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Speaker 2: of young people being complacent? Raise Your Voice received responses

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Speaker 2: from more than six hundred young ossies. Of the young

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Speaker 2: people who did participate, sixty percent of them said that

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Speaker 2: it was the first time they engaged with the politician

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Speaker 2: or with Australian politics, and the two top issues that

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Speaker 2: were identified were as you would have guessed, climate change

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Speaker 2: and equality, with other issues including education, first Nations, rights

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Speaker 2: and racism. I've got to be honest that, as someone

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Speaker 2: who is politically engaged, watching a campaign like this warms

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Speaker 2: my heart. It is so overdue and so necessary for

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Speaker 2: young people to have a space to be heard and

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Speaker 2: for their opinions and perspectives to be mirrored in the

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Speaker 2: policy makers and decision makers in Parliament House. We wanted

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Speaker 2: to speak to the founder of Raise Your Voice, who

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Speaker 2: is another young person who's trying to increase political engagement

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Speaker 2: among certain cohorts of the Australian community. So here's Ashley

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Speaker 2: on what she said the campaign was trying to achieve

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Speaker 2: and what has actually happened.

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Speaker 5: We know that young people are switched on, they're passionate,

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Speaker 5: they're engaged in the world around them, but this isn't

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Speaker 5: reflected in our parliaments. In Australia. The average age of

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Speaker 5: a politician is fifty one. There's only one politician under

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Speaker 5: thirty years of age, and yet young people are about

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Speaker 5: one fifth of our national population. We wanted to see

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Speaker 5: if we could change this, even if just for a week.

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Speaker 5: So the Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign was actually

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Speaker 5: pitched to me by Ruby Bisson, who was an Internet

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Speaker 5: friend of mine. We met over Instagram and to this

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Speaker 5: day we still haven't met in person, but she shared

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Speaker 5: my passion for supporting the next generation of young leaders.

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Speaker 5: Ruby had been following the work that I was doing

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Speaker 5: with Raise Our Voice Australia, which is working to increase

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Speaker 5: the number of young, female and gender diverse voices leading

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Speaker 5: conversations in and politics. Both rub and I shared this

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Speaker 5: passion for supporting young people, for getting a more representative democracy,

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Speaker 5: and in supporting young people to engage in politics. We

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Speaker 5: wanted to translate the passion of these young leaders into

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Speaker 5: something tangible and create a campaign that was relatively accessible

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Speaker 5: in allowing them to participate. We didn't know how the

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Speaker 5: idea would go, but we pitched this campaign to nps

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Speaker 5: and senators across the country with a really simple ask

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Speaker 5: to give up one of their ninety second speaking slots

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Speaker 5: to read a speech written by a young person from

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Speaker 5: their electorate. We had over twenty senators and forty MP's

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Speaker 5: say yes, and over the next few weeks we'll have

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Speaker 5: over one hundred speeches read in Parliament and on the

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Speaker 5: social media of participating politicians, we've had submissions on topics

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Speaker 5: from climate to gender equality, talking about how physical education

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Speaker 5: needs to be scrapped from the school curriculum, arguing for

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Speaker 5: minecraft in school CLOBs and compulsory consent education. In short,

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Speaker 5: the submissions reflected the diversity of the young people, which

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Speaker 5: is exactly what we wanted. Our youngest submitter was just

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Speaker 5: sixty years old, and over sixty percent of people who

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Speaker 5: participated in the campaign confirm that this was their first

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Speaker 5: engagement in Australia's political system. Overall, the Raise our Voice

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Speaker 5: in Parliament campaign has confirmed what we already know. Young

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Speaker 5: people are here, they're engaged, they have a voice. It

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Speaker 5: just needs to be amplified and heard in all the

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Speaker 5: right places.

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Speaker 1: This initiative is exactly what the Daily Ods is about.

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Speaker 1: It's about young people engaging in Australian politics and we

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Speaker 1: couldn't be proud of Ashley and her team executing a

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Speaker 1: sensational initiative. We've got Parliament sitting this week, we have

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Speaker 1: the continuation of the New South Wales former Premier Gladysbary

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Speaker 1: Jicklin's ICACH trial. There's a lot happening. You can join

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Speaker 1: us on Instagram at the Daily Ods for news throughout

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Speaker 1: the day. Have a fantastic Hume day, and we'll speak

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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow