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Our Policy & Advocacy Priorities

All domains of The Nest

  • Invest in an Early Years Strategy – Action Plan
  • Legislate an Act for Children including appointment of a Minister for Children
  • Appoint a Commissioner for Future Generations

Healthy

  • Universal mental health support.
  • Increase legislative protections from the marketing of unhealthy and harmful products

Material Basics

  • Raise and keep Youth Allowance and JobSeeker above the poverty line.
  • Lower costs of tertiary education

Learning

  • Universal childcare access.
  • Give early childhood educators a raise.
  • Fund all public schools equitably.
  • Elevate health and wellbeing as KPIs.

Valued, Loved and Safe

  • Invest in better ways to help kids than putting them in jail.
  • Stronger, faster and more inclusive action on climate change.

Positive Sense of Identity and culture

  • Create safer schools to support every child’s identity and culture.

Participating

  • Expand youth genuine consultation programs across all governments’ departments.
  • Lower the voting age to 16.
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ARACY Amplified

ARACY Amplified - Our Policy and Advocacy Priorities 2024-25
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Our loud and clear agenda is to improve the holistic wellbeing of Australia’s children and young people. Informed by the latest evidence, our expert partners and what young people say they want via our Young+Wise Report and Reference Group. 

ARACY Amplified - Our Policy and Advocacy Priorities 2024-25

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