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Speaker 1: In some real I reckon this is a great idea.

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Speaker 1: So participants in the NT Youth Parliament Program they're set

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Speaker 1: to engage in debates at Parliament House later this month,

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Speaker 1: meeting members of the government and showcasing bills that they've developed.

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Speaker 1: The initiative provides a platform for territory kids age fifteen

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Speaker 1: engage with the democratic process, build leadership and teamwork skills,

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Speaker 1: and also raise issues that impact their communities. Now joining

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Speaker 1: us in the studio this morning, it's the Assistant Minister

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Speaker 1: for People, Sport and Culture, law E z Oh. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and good morning to everybody out there.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you on the show. Now. First off,

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Speaker 1: for anyone who's not familiar with Youth Parliament, how's it

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Speaker 1: all work.

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Speaker 2: It's an amazing program. And anybody that knows my history

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Speaker 2: in education knows that I'm absolutely passionate about kids doing

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Speaker 2: amazing things into their future. And every time I go

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Speaker 2: into a school, I'm enlightened by the amount of kids

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Speaker 2: that are doing amazing stuff. So the Youth Parliament Program

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Speaker 2: is a nonpartisan leadership and advocacy program. For Territory and

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Speaker 2: kids and it's run by the YNT, so they do

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Speaker 2: an amazing job in putting out circulars to try and

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Speaker 2: get kids involved in youth Parliament. The kids draft bills,

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Speaker 2: so they work together in groups and they draft bills

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Speaker 2: so that they can come and sit in Parliament. And

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Speaker 2: I'm really lucky enough. I've sponsored quite a few kids

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Speaker 2: to attend this program. It costs a little bit of money,

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Speaker 2: so I've sponsored for kids from across the electorate of

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Speaker 2: Fanny Bay to be able to participate in this program

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 1: How good.

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Speaker 2: And they come in and they sit in Parliament. I

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Speaker 2: get to I get to chair some of the sessions

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Speaker 2: that they're running, which is really cool. And they get

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Speaker 2: to introduce their bills that they've proposed, they get to

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Speaker 2: do mated speeches, they get to do petitions that they've created.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good process for them to understand how

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Speaker 2: the democratic process works.

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Speaker 1: And so do they have to self nominate or what's

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Speaker 1: the process for them being involved?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it gets advertised to schools. Obviously senior schools

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Speaker 2: are the target cohort for this group. But it's advertised

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Speaker 2: and kids can choose to participate We've got thirty three

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Speaker 2: kids this year that have chosen to participate from across

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Speaker 2: the Northern Territory. They're coming from places like darn Palmerston,

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and as far remote as Upull

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Speaker 2: them out in the Barclays. So it's really good.

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Speaker 1: Really do they have to, like, do they have to

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Speaker 1: be studying politics at school? Do they just have to

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Speaker 1: decide that they want to find out learn more about politics?

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Speaker 1: What's the process?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, it's a program. It's sort of a program

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Speaker 2: that the school obviously decides that they're going to participate

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Speaker 2: they just need to be interested in learning more about

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Speaker 1: The reason I think it's such a good idea is

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Speaker 1: because I think that you know, a lot of young people,

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Speaker 1: particularly you know, people of all ages in Australia don't

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Speaker 1: understand as much about politics as you know, as what

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Speaker 1: you or I might because we've been involved in, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you know, base it on your education and what

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Speaker 1: you see for yourself when you go in there as well,

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Speaker 1: and we want good young people coming up through the ranks. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And this program has been running for thirty years. So

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Speaker 2: the first time that it started was in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: five in the norm territory. I think it started in

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Speaker 2: Victoria back in nineteen eighty six, but we started it

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Speaker 2: year that it's operated in Norn territory, which is absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Do you know if we've got any notable graduates, anybody

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Speaker 1: that's now a politician, they did it?

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Speaker 1: R are you able to reveal?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I think the leader of your position is

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Speaker 2: Sleiniyubo did it back in high school days. So it's

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Speaker 2: something that can definitely progress through your career. If that's

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Speaker 1: You want to do it, I reckon that's awesome. So

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Speaker 1: in terms of the bills and things like that that

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. So the program runs from the twenty third of

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Speaker 2: September through to the twenty fifth and it's in Parliament

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Speaker 2: Carlie Heist have to give a big shout out. Carlihist

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Speaker 2: from The Why has done an amazing job in pulling

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Speaker 2: doing adjournment speeches. They're talking about youth scrutiny and government,

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Speaker 2: which is something that I'm really interested in. I've been

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Speaker 2: toying with the idea of trying to pull together a

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Speaker 2: we're doing. The Age of Criminal Responsibility is something young

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Speaker 2: cares rights, student well being in schools. There's a whole

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Speaker 2: they get to then pitch to the ministers and all

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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. So it's really really cool and

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Speaker 2: people the general public can come in and sit and

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Speaker 2: watch in the chamber. They can see how these youths

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Speaker 2: go about. You'll be absolutely amazed about how good these

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Speaker 1: Now good good on them, and so they've all already

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Speaker 1: been selected. It's not something that people can still do

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Speaker 1: for this year. They've just got to keep an ear

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this year's been sort of settled. They've already started

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Speaker 2: the program. They've been traveling around. They've come out to

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Speaker 2: talked about my journey into politics and how it impacts

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Speaker 2: So they've gone out and they've started that program. So definitely,

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Speaker 2: if you're interested look forward to next year. You can

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Speaker 2: keep your eye on the call out.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff for Laurie Zeo, the Assistant Minister for People,

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Speaker 1: Sport and Culture and also the member for Funny Babe,

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Speaker 1: Good to catch up with you this morning.

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Speaker 2: Can I give one a little plug?

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Speaker 1: Of course you can.

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Speaker 2: We have a really cool community night happening tomorrow night

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Speaker 2: at Theotanic Gardens. So we've got a movie night for families.

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Speaker 2: It's free for everybody to attend. Starts at six six

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Speaker 2: point thirty. Come down to the Botanic Gardens, both myself,

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Speaker 2: the Member for Port Darwin and the Member fong Limb.

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Speaker 2: We've all come together to do a big community event.

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Speaker 2: Come down and enjoy a free night with the family.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Well, Laurie, good to catch up with you

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you so much for your time, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me, Thank you