Encouraging young people to apply for new Youth Advisory Groups

Applications are now open for the Albanese Government’s 2025 Youth Advisory Groups, ensuring young people have input on the policies and programs impacting them.

Young people aged 16 to 24 are encouraged to apply to join the Youth Advisory Groups, to work with their peers and provide direct advice to government in 2025.

Minister for Youth Dr Anne Aly said the Groups are an incredible opportunity for young people to be involved in the process of government and to influence policy creation and delivery. 

“Young people have valuable insights and perspectives, we know that by working with them we can deliver a better future for all of us,” Dr Aly said.

“With no experience required to be a member of one of the groups, I encourage young people from all backgrounds to apply and take advantage of this opportunity.”

In 2025 two new groups will join the successful program, with the introduction of a Climate Change and Water Youth Advisory Group, along with a First Nations Youth Advisory Group which will provide advice on career information and the 2025 AIATSIS Summit Youth Forum. Both groups will run for two years. 

Some members of the 2024 First Nations Education Youth Advisory Group will transition to the new First Nations Youth Advisory Group in 2025, with applications needed to fill the remaining positions.

The current Prevention of Gender-Based Violence, Civic Engagement and Creative Industries Youth Advisory Groups will continue for a second year, with applications to fill vacant positions.

The advisory groups will seek to represent young people from diverse backgrounds, including young people with disability, with lived experience of mental ill-health, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Successful candidates will need to be available to travel to Canberra in 2025 for in-person meetings. The Office for Youth will cover this cost.

For further information on the groups and to apply visit: youth.gov.au/get-involved. Applications close at 11.59pm AEDT, Sunday 17 November 2024.