NOMinate an awesome person you know for the

Emerging Civic Leaders course pilot

Building an awesome, diverse team and empowering others to lead is not only a sign of a great leader, but it will be super helpful in delivering a high-impact youth voter campaign.

Do you know someone (in your local community or anywhere in Australia) who should apply?

Nominate them now!

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Email skye.riggs@yvote.com.au

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We love seeing how individuals harness their personal strengths to lead change in their local communities and we're so pumped to see graduates of our Emerging Civic Leaders program stepping up into leadership roles in their careers of choice. This includes a bunch of grads now mentoring the next cohorts! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Applications for Ryde @ryde2vote and Sydney close soon and we'd love to see you in there.

It's normal to feel like when it comes to politics and big decisions, our voices just wont make a difference. Actually, young people have huge power to influence change... but to make this happen, we have to get involved.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Y Vote's Emerging Civic Leaders program helps you build the skills, experience and confidence to make young voices heard in your community. You'll not only learn from amazing topic matter experts but create tangible results that you can use in your study, career & social change journey.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ There are several funded opportunities open now in Ryde @ryde2vote (inc. for Macquarie Uni students) and Sydney (plus more coming soon so register your interest now!) All that's standing between you and your leadership journey is applying. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Link in bio.

Struggling with feeling so overwhelmed by the magnitude and number of global issues facing our generation that you don't know where to begin taking action? This is something we hear from heaps of our Emerging Civic Leader applicants like Katie.⁠⠀ 💫⁠⠀ But Katie decided to do something about that and is one of our Emerging Civic Leader grads that not only built the confidence and experience needed to lead change in her community, but is now leading one of our next cohorts! ⁠⠀ 💥⁠⠀ If you're keen to do the same, apply for our Emerging Civic Leaders program now!⁠⠀ 🤳🏾⁠⠀ Applications open at @ryde2vote and @cityofsydney link in bio

Wooowoo exciting news! 🎉Applications are now open for the Emerging Civic Leaders program in Ryde, NSW! If you live, work or study in the area (👋 hey there @macquarieuni students - this counts towards GLP!) this funded opportunity might be for you. More info > link in bio

TWO MORE SLEEPS! ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Our election toolkit - a bunch of info about where the parties stand on issues that matter to you PLUS your questions answered (like 'is voting for an independent or minor party wasting your vote?) - goes out tomorrow morning. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Make sure your on our mailing list to get this all straight in your inbox. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Happy voting!

Times they are a changing... and this is just one more reason why young voters have so much power at this election.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Forget what you’ve heard about ‘safe’ seats - recent elections have shown the concept of one political party winning in the same electorate over and over is increasingly a thing of the past. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Going into the 2019 Federal election, it looks as though there will be more challenges made to what were previously safe seats.. more at Y Vote or link in bio⠀⠀

💔It's not you, it's me... ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ In ep two of the Let's Get Political podcast Skye and @staceyjune ask: Is democracy as a system of government working for us? Or do we need to do better to make it work?⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ Special guest Iain Walker from the newDemocracy Foundation joins to chat 🥁🥁🥁 innovations in democracy (how do we make it better!) ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ A quick easy political workout to get you fit before the election... listen on all your fav platforms or follow the link in bio :)⠀⠀

Another little known reason why your vote counts even if you live in a safe seat... ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ If you live in a safe seat and don’t vote because the party you support isn’t going to be elected, then you’re effectively depriving them of the cash they could use to fund future campaigns. How? ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ The Australian Electoral Commission distributes approximately $2.60 in campaign funding for every vote received by candidates who get more than 4% of the primary vote. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ More info 👉🏽 link in bio or home page of www.yvote.com.au

Y Voter Charlotte continues her work on the power of your vote... and explains in several, quick posts, how your vote makes a difference...⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Even if you live in a safe seat (an electorate that has been repeatedly won by a particular candidate or party), your vote still affects the outcome in the Federal Senate and many of the upper houses of the State parliaments (Australian Parliament follows a two-house or bi-cameral system). ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ More explained at link in bio 🗳

In the 1919 federal election, the Nationalist Party defeated Labor in Ballarat by just one vote!⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ In more recent times, like the last federal election, the margins in some seats have been so small that the number of un-enrolled young people was larger than the difference in votes between the two leading parties. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Youth enrolment is currently at an all time high. Click through to learn more about how one vote can make a difference. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #vote #yvote #election #auspol #youthvoice #youngleaders #election2019