I passionately believe in our young people. We cannot let their hopes for a better future be lost. We must fight on
On election night I received a message on Facebook from a young Gamilaroi woman I used to teach. Now a 20-year-old university student who is interested in politics, her message simply said: “Miss Jessa, I am so gutted. I feel like Labor was the only hope for a better future for our mob. I feel so powerless.”
I was devastated to read her message. I tried to lift her spirits as I have always tried to do with my students, but I deeply felt her pain. Like me, this young woman had hope in Labor because she heard Bill Shorten commit to a range of policies that showed his team had our best interests at heart. Things like supporting a constitutionally enshrined Voice for First Australians, investing more in the education of our young women and girls, and tackling the appalling incarceration rates which still see more of our young men going to jail each year than to university.
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