Carina Garland (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We have some extraordinary young people in the electorate of Chisholm, and I absolutely love visiting the marvellous schools in Chisholm, whether it be for mock parliaments, Q&A sessions, leadership forums or just to attend assemblies and say hello. These schools are nurturing some of our brightest stars and future leaders. Some of my recent visits include a mock parliament at Wattle Park Primary School and Q&A sessions at Huntingtower school and Brentwood Secondary College. I've also attended a teacher leadership event at Sacre Coeur, which happens to be my old school, as well as a year 10 politics class at Avila College. I'm constantly amazed and impressed by the knowledge and the questions from students at both primary and secondary schools in Chisholm.

We have a young hero in our electorate, Maxwell Chang, one of the 300 young leaders to have been selected to attend the National Leadership Forum here at Parliament House in September, and I had the pleasure of meeting him, recently, in my electorate office. Maxwell is currently studying law and commerce at Deakin University, and he is a vice-chancellor's scholar. He participates in local initiatives, like the Gardiners Creek parkrun and cultivating community at Burwood Brickworks, and he is serving as the youngest member, representing the under-21 demographic, on the Shaping Whitehorse Community Panel. It was terrific to meet Maxwell. I look forward to hearing about how he gets on at the National Leadership Forum later this year.

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