I loved getting to meet all the amazing people with similar aspirations to support our young students of South Australia and to make an impact in our world. I loved hearing all the inspiration stories and sharing these with my own student leadership group truly benefited my school’s leadership team in how we operate.

Growing up in a conservative household from a foreign culture, expressing my feelings through any means was never encouraged, and it simply wasn't part of our culture. However, skateboarding has had such a profound impact on my life that I feel compelled to share my story; this is how serious this s*** has changed my life.

I first found out about Hub when it was being developed back in 2021 and I thought it was a really cool platform! A site built for young people, by young people. At the end of 2022, I wanted to branch out a little into different mediums of voicing my opinions, which prompted me to become a Journalist and Research Intern.

As humans, we never stop learning. There is always going to be something we don’t know, it’s just impossible to know everything. The phrase ‘You learn something new every day’, is especially true, but who are we learning things from?

“One bottle will have no impact.” Now visualise Earth’s population, instantaneously a critical number of seven billion bottles have materialised. Human impact is literal and the actions that proceed from now are crucial. Currently, our present and previous generations have contributed to awful and growing issues.

A prominent concern of our era is occupied by the critical controversy of climate change. Scientists are attempting to alert us that immediate measures against it need to be adopted to prevent catastrophic consequences. Recently, in April 2022, a frantic association of four NASA scientists united together to exert the importance of climate change.

Languages all over the world are dying, tearing down the cultures and traditions which are bound to them. Many languages, including countless Aboriginal languages, are in significant danger of totally vanishing soon, severing people’s connections to their history, culture and identity.

School is fast-paced, interactive and very collaborative, so it was a huge challenge to adjust to learning from home during the pandemic, especially because I had very limited internet coverage.

While for many January 26th is a day of family celebrations, beach cricket and barbecues, for the nearly 800,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians it can be a day of overwhelming sadness, frustration, and a reminder of the generational trauma experienced by First Nations people.

If there’s one statement that’s been thrown around excessively during the pandemic that’s turned 2020 upside down, it’s “I can’t wait for things to get back to normal.”

A few months ago, I turned sixteen, and every parent knows what that means: watch out Adelaide, I am learning to drive. As a sixteen-year-old, I have a myriad of responsibilities. At sixteen, I can learn to drive, I pay tax, I can work, register as an organ donor and even apply to join the Australian military. However, despite all of this responsibility, at sixteen, I am not allowed to vote.

With the recent quarantines and social isolation across the globe, we have all come to a startling realisation; the environment is already bouncing back. It turns out than when people are staying inside, without using their cars, excess resources or energy; when mass production of everything and anything we could ask for has ground to a halt, the environment benefits.