eNewsletters
Welcome to MYAN’s August newsletter! We’re excited to introduce you our brand new Health Youth Advisory Group (YAG) members for 2024, and for updates on our policy and advocacy work and current opportunities for young people across Australia.
Children are dramatically over-represented among the world’s refugees. They make up less than one third of the global population, but more than 41 per cent among the world’s refugees.
Welcome to the May edition of the MYAN e-news! This month, we’re sharing our thoughts on the recent 2024 Federal Budget announcements, releasing our FUSE & National Conference 2023 Report and calling for expressions of interests for our brand new opinion piece section. We’re also sharing key health updates and opportunities, including self-advocacy workshops and the chance to join our team as our new Project Manager!
It’s been a busy start to 2024 for the MYAN team! And we are looking forward to sharing all the exciting things that have kept us busy these past months.
Read on to find out more about our work at The Consultations on Refugee Resettlement (CRCP), access our latest national data snapshot, find out about upcoming events and to find out how you can join our Youth Advisory Group and much more!
Another eventful year is coming to a close, and we are excited to share our final 2023 newsletter with you! It has been a privilege for MYAN to spend another memorable year working alongside amazing young people from all over the country. Read on for updates from the team, including our National Multicultural Youth Conference- Navigating Journeys, Empowering Voices, FUSE 2023, and more!
Our team has been growing and keeping busy in the past few months. We’re excited to share some updates and highlights, key developments on our projects and fill you in on all the cool things MYAN youth has been involved in. In this edition, we talk about MYAN National Multicultural Youth Consultation 2023, MYAN’s involvement in the Multicultural Framework Review, the Hands on Heart Uluru Dialogue Conference for the Voice and many more.
Media Releases
The Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network Australia (MYAN) welcomes the Federal Government’s recently released Multicultural Framework Review. We commend the comprehensive and inclusive approach of the review, particularly the dedicated focus on young people from multicultural backgrounds. This focus is a significant step towards creating a society that values and uplifts the voices of our diverse youth.
Continued investment in youth settlement support welcome news…but where is the relief for multicultural young people who already call Australia home? Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network (MYAN) Australia Responds to the 2024 Australian Federal Budget.
Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network welcomes a diverse budget but more must be done to address cost of living for young people.
Australia’s Peak Body for refugee and migrant youth, MYAN welcomes a diverse budget that takes some positive steps to respond to the cost of living crisis, including a huge $5.7 billion investment in Medicare, and a much needed increase in rental assistance and income support (the most substantial indexation since the welfare measure was brought in in 1998).
MYAN is proud to share with our network our public support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. We support the Statement’s recommendations calling for three fundamental changes of Voice, Treaty, and Truth, which includes calls for a First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a process of agreement-making and truth telling.
MYAN releases latest research report “Counting us in: MYAN report on the settlement experiences of LGBTQI+ refugee & asylum seeker young adults.”
With generous support from the Sidney Myer Fund and Pride Foundation Australia, MYAN recently undertook national research to capture the settlement experiences of young LGBTQI+ asylum seekers and refugees living in Australia.
MYAN, Australia’s peak body representing the rights and interests of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds welcomes the life-changing and very much anticipated announcement that more than 19,000 refugees currently living in Australia on temporary visas can now apply for permanent protection.
This change will give them the same rights as all other permanent residents in Australia and enable a more positive transition to citizenship for young refugees.