Anne Aly (Cowan, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One of the great privileges that we get when we're in our constituency is to visit our schools. I've visited every school in my electorate of Cowan, and in this last break I had the great pleasure of meeting the year 12 ATAR politics and law students at St Stephen's secondary college, where I spent an hour or so having a wonderful chat with these highly engaged young people, who give me hope for Australia's future. I'd like to do a shout-out today to Ellie Fletcher, Ellie Jones, Amalia Archer, Nikolaj Sentow, Marcus Ferguson, Alex Cordell, Cat van der Meer, Olivia Duncan, Amy Wilkinson, Brayden Smith and their wonderful teacher, Joshua Plumber. Thank you so much for having me speak to you at your school. You had some wonderful questions for me, and we enjoyed an hour of very deep discussion about politics and about what goes on in this place. It was wonderful to see young people engaged and concerned about the future of their country and expressing those concerns in that forum to their elected member. As I said earlier, it is one of the great privileges that we have in this place—that we get to go out and speak to young people. I'm consistently heartened about the future of our country every time I go and meet young people, of all ages, particularly those in the schools in my electorate, and I wish them all the best with their ATAR.