17-year-old Zhi is a student at Hurlstone Agricultural School where he has been a Peer Support Program Instructor, a member of the SRC and the president of the Interact Club.

He is the current president of the Liverpool District SRC and has been involved in a number of fundraising activities.

Zhi is interested in opening communication lines between youth organisations and various forms of governance; promoting racial harmony among young people; and examining the availability of youth development opportunities.

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Simon, 17, has been an active participant in a number of youth forums convened by the Marrickville Council.

He also acted in the short film I Miss Marrickville, which won the state-wide Silent Cells Award during National Youth Week 2002.

Simon has seen religious discrimination first-hand and would like to raise awareness about its negative presence in the world.

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Caroline, 17, attends Bendigo Senior Secondary College.

She is an active fundraiser and is involved with a number of organizations.

Caroline also writes articles for the youth supplement of the Bendigo Advertiser, ‘Loop’.

She has experienced accommodation issues and now lives with her foster family.

Caroline is interested in social equality and humanitarian issues with a focus on the homelessness.

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Michael, 21, is studying law.

A refugee from Sudan, Michael had to seek accommodation through youth housing organizations, which has made him keen to look at this issue on the Roundtable.

Since settling in Melbourne, Michael has contributed significantly to the needs of Sudanese youth in the western suburbs as a founding member of the New Sudan Youth Association of Australia and was
a representative at the Victorian Multicultural Youth Roundtable.

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Cassie, 24 has completed her Bachelor of Social Science, specialising in services for young people.

On a field placement in New Zealand she developed a youth protocol for a shopping centre to assist with local youth issues, which she has been invited back to evaluate.

She is keen to explore working on community development frameworks for young people.

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James is a 16-year-old Indigenous student at Caritas College. James has a strong interest in the arts, and was a founding member of ‘Witchetty Bubs’, a local children’s performance group that performed throughout Port Augusta.

In 2002, James was awarded the NAIDOC ‘Indigenous Youth of the Year’ Award for his contributions to his community.

More recently, James was selected to participate in the National Aboriginal Summer School for excellence in technology and science.

James is interested in promoting awareness about Indigenous issues among the non-Indigenous community.

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Anthony, 16, is an Indigenous student at Alice Springs High School, where he has been a member of its Student Council for four years, and the school facilitator for the Kids Help Line.

In 2002, he was invited to become a member of the Chief Minister’s Roundtable for Young Territorians.

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An, 24, is a prominent young leader in the Vietnamese community in WA, and has degrees in economics and law.

Through his ongoing volunteer work as a tutor and committee member, he has identified cultural identity as a significant issue for Australian-born children of the migrant generation of Vietnamese. An is interested in exploring this issue on the Roundtable.

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