The AYCC’s by-election campaign dominated the election pages of the North Shore Times, the largest local paper in Bradfield, on Friday 13 November. Check out this fantastic article by Andrew Priestley on the campaign and local Australian Youth Delegate, Nick Mueller, who is about to leave for Copenhagen to advocate for young Australians at the UN. Go Nick!
Simon Kelly put to the Tomorrow Test – Bradfield By-Election Campaign
November 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The next Bradfield by-election candidate interviewed is Simon Kelly, an independent. While you watch the video, ask yourself: does Simon pass the Tomorrow Test?
AYCC By-election Campaign
October 27, 2009 By 1 Comment
UPDATE: Very recently, two elections for federal seats were called for December 5. Let’s make them climate elections!
Australia’s largest youth organisation, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is launching a new campaign to harness one of the most powerful weapon we have in the fight against climate change: our vote.
Inspiractivism: Melbourne People
October 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
InspirActivism is on again!
InspirActivism is an activist training program which allows young activists from a range of backgrounds and political traditions to meet and share ideas and experiences while offering unique access to an earlier generation of activists. Participants are afforded the opportunity to learn about historical campaigns, skills in organising and developing campaigns and to discuss and reflect upon their own ideas and experiences in effecting social change.
PM mentions Youth Decide in his blog
October 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
PM: “Recently Youth Decide 09 Australia conducted Australia’s first ever youth vote on climate change. It was done over a week in mid September. Nearly 14,000 young Austrlaia’s between 12 and 29 voted on what they wanted to inherit. 97.5 per cent voted for stronger emissions target than we are currently proposing…. By the way, [...]
New Book: Crunch Time
October 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Author Tony Kevin has written a new book about climate policy called ‘Crunch Time: Using and Abusing Keynes to Fight the Twin Crises of Our Era’’ (Scribe Publications, September 2009). You can read this Eureka Street review by John Wicks: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=16407 Here are some events around the book you should try to get to if [...]
Climate Camp
October 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A reminder that NSW Climate Camp is occurring this weekend at Helensburg. More info and to stay updated check out http://www.climatecamp.org.au/.
AMSA Climate event, 13th October at Monash
October 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Event alert: FREE PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Code Green: exploring the impact of climate change on human health ‘Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century‘ (The Lancet, 2009) Join an eminent panel of academic and policy experts for a public discussion on the significance of climate change, the challenges it presents to [...]
Youth Decide Results
September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In September 2009 — 37,432 young Australians around the nation voted in Youth Decide (one of the AYCC’s latest projects). You were faced with three different futures, and this is what you chose: • 34,267 (91.5%) voted for World 3 (40% + emissions reductions) • 2,225 (5.9%) voted for World 2 (25 – 40% emissions [...]
Youth Decide Voting Opened this Morning…
September 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
So go vote! www.youthdecide.com.au to decide on the future of the world.
