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2010 United Nations Australian Youth Rep.

      2010 Australian Youth Representative  Applications are now open for the 2010 Australian Youth Representative Position!   
Each year since 1999 the United Nations Youth Association and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has chosen one young Australian to be the Youth Representative in Australia’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.  
In 2010, this could be you!  
The Australian Youth Representative is responsible for representing the views and interests of Australian young people to the United Nations. The Australian Youth Representative will have the amazing opportunity to journey around Australia to further understand the depth and breadth of the opinions of young Australians, before travelling to the Australian Mission. Once in New York they will work in the UN as a fully accredited member of the Australian Delegation, working closely with Australian diplomatic personnel. They will also work with fellow Youth Representatives from other Member States to advance the youth agenda and meet with UN staff to formulate new projects for young people around the world! 
 
Young Australians between the age of 15 and 24 are strongly encouraged to apply for this exciting position!

Applications will close on the 2nd of November, 2009.

 For more information and to apply, go to http://www.unya.org.au/youthrep/

Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library (from a Youthgas post)

Survey about Parliament in Australia

The PEO survey for secondary students. If you are a secondary student The Parliamentary Education Office would like to find out what you think about, know about and how you’d like to learn about parliament. We will include your ideas when developing our resources and programs. The survey takes about five minutes – you can send your survey back by clicking on the button at the bottom right of the form.
If you use Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo or a similar web-based email account, download the PDF, fill it out, save it and send as an attachment to the email address at the bottom of the survey.

Thank you for taking a moment to do this – your feedback is going to help! Take the secondary students survey [486KB] or use the following website link
http://www.peo.gov.au/survey/index.html
posted by Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library