National Youth Strategy


Why won’t Kate Ellis have a chat with the yoof of today?

If there’s one part of public policy that needs attention, it is youth policy, since they will be affected by the society stuff ups we’ve created. Too bad that Kate Ellis, Minister for Youth, seems to be all talk, no action, writes Ben Eltham>.

Kate Ellis and the youth roundtable that wasn’t

On Wednesday, leading youngsters were flown to Canberra for a “roundtable” discussion with youth minister Kate Ellis. But the Minister failed to show, nothing was launched and the delegates were shuffled around the corridors of power before being banished from the premises.