{"id":2078,"date":"2019-03-28T12:48:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:48:55","slug":"newcastle-youth-forum-call-for-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/newcastle-youth-forum-call-for-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWCASTLE YOUTH FORUM: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Novocastrians under 25 have been invited to nominate to take part in the 2019 Newcastle Youth Forum which will be co-convened next week by Shadow Minister for Young Australians and Youth Affairs, Terri Butler MP.<br \/>\nFederal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon said she had invited Ms Butler to Newcastle to co-host the forum and give young people a voice in the things that matter to them.<br \/>\n\u201cI was really bolstered by the incredible energy and commitment to change displayed by thousands of young people at the recent Strike for Climate Action. This is one of many issues that young people care passionately about.<br \/>\nHowever, the rally also demonstrated the acute frustration they are feeling with the political process,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cGovernment should be for all Australians, but too many young people have told me that important decisions are being made against their best interests and\u00a0they feel powerless to do anything about it.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said the forum would be held on Friday 5 April in Newcastle.<br \/>\n\u201cI would encourage anyone with great ideas about the things we need to do to make a better community and a better country to get in touch,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cTo nominate to take part, people should call my office on 4926 1555 or email me on\u00a0<u><a href=\"mailto:Sharon.Claydon.MP@aph.gov.au\">Sharon.Claydon.MP@aph.gov.au<\/a><\/u>\u00a0with your details and a short outline of why you want to attend.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said the forum would complement the Newcastle Youth Survey which has been launched at\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/NewcastleYouthSurvey2019\">https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/2019NewcastleYouthSurvey\">019NewcastleYouthSurvey<\/a><\/u>.<br \/>\n\u201cTogether, the forum and the Youth Survey will help me to understand the issues that matter to young Novocastrians, so I can better represent everyone\u2019s interests in the Federal Parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Novocastrians under 25 have been invited to nominate to take part in the 2019 Newcastle Youth Forum which will be co-convened next week by Shadow Minister for Young Australians and Youth Affairs, Terri Butler MP. Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon said she had invited Ms Butler to Newcastle to co-host the forum and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/newcastle-youth-forum-call-for-nominations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NEWCASTLE YOUTH FORUM: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}