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The 2023 Report
Each year, the Youth Representative leads an extensive, nationwide consultation tour to engage with and discover the issues that are most important to young Australians. This 6-month tour typically sees the Youth Representative travel to every State and Territory, engaging with young people in urban, regional and rural areas.
Imogen Kane consolidated her findings from the Listening Tour into a 5-minute speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 30, 2023.
The Australian Youth Representative Report for 2023 seeks to expand on these perspectives, and highlight the issues that youth in the country are concerned about with the depth that their thoughts require.
This report is available to view now, and will be distributed through social media channels, newsletters, and more.
Printable version of the report:
Our impact in numbers:
1,267
total interactions on the Listening Tour
790
in-person participants
477
survey repondents
Posting at the United Nations
In September, the Australian Youth Representative travels to New York to represent Australia’s young people at the United Nations as a member of the Australian Permanent Mission to the UN. While in New York, the Australian Youth Representative represents the views of both the Australian Mission and Australia’s young people to the international community.
Culminating in a speech to the 3rd Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Australian Youth Representative’s stay in New York involves negotiating with Youth Representatives from other countries, and helping to inform the debate around topical issues from the youth perspective.
On September 30th, Imogen delivered her address at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. She shared the thoughts of the Australian youth at the Third Committee of the General Assembly’s 78th Session. Well done, Imogen!
Imogen Kane
Imogen Kane (she/her) is a gender and youth advocate, working in spaces to promote quality holistic education as a critical lever towards addressing gender inequality, societal divisions, and youth issues. Imogen’s experience working within domestic and international teams, including at the Cotton On Foundation as their Impact Coordinator, has immersed Imogen in holistic education, mental health, and environment projects across Australia, Uganda, South Africa, and Thailand.
You can connect with Imogen professionally through her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imogen-kane.
Imogen has been involved in multiple publications including ‘Six Months Later’, a Monash Gender Peace and Security Centre collection of research essays put together by young women from Australia and Afghanisation in the context of the eroding rights of women and girls under Taliban rule. Through the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition’s Young Leaders and Advocates Fellowship, Imogen advocated youth experiences and concerns to the government regarding domestic violence, financial literacy, housing and employment. Imogen has convened Model UN conferences, led overseas delegations and competed on behalf of Monash International Affairs Society, Monash University and Australia more broadly, receiving multiple international recognitions. Imogen is passionate about teaching Model UN skills and creating programs that support students to travel, provide policy solutions and youth perspectives on global issues, and connect with other young people from across the world.
Imogen is studying a Master of International Relations (specialising in Gender, Peace and Security) at Monash University, after recently completing a Bachelor of Global Studies (specialising in International Relations). She is passionate about the cross-cutting issues of gender in international relations, and the role and representation of youth perspectives in global forums.
Our past
reports:
2019 Report
“I also saw an innate and powerful hope in young people…I saw them empowering each other. I saw young people looking at the world around them, determined to build a better one.”, Kareem El-Ansary reports.
2018 Report
“It is crucial that we consider young people as participating members of society…If young people had a greater say in decision-making and setting our policy agenda, our world would be kinder, safer, and healthier.”, Amos Washington reports.
2017 Report
“I know that young people have creative solutions to offer—which is helpful because our world is facing unprecedented challenges that will require young people to help solve.”, Paige Burton reports.
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