2025 SA Young Australian of the Year Amber Brock-Fabel

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Meet Your Australians - 2025 SA Young Australian of the Year Amber Brock-Fabel. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.

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00:00I remember feeling like I was the most disempowered person in the world when I was 16.

00:07I felt really alone, separated from the decisions being made that impacted me and my generation.

00:13At 17, I wanted to do something about it, so I created the South Australian Youth Forum.

00:18It's a platform led by young people for young people to drive the change within our

00:23communities and create that space so other young people don't feel alone in such a

00:28busy world.

00:30The South Australian Youth Forum is a dynamic environment for young people across our state

00:35to come together, meet monthly, and discuss really important issues of relevance that

00:40directly affect us.

00:42We have been engaged in multiple levels of decision-making processes.

00:46We produce an annual report which reflects hundreds of young people's voices across

00:50South Australia through surveys, through workshops, and through consultations, and we present

00:56these to ministers and parliamentarians, community ambassadors, and academics at the

01:01end of each year.

01:03Often our reports are included into state-wide youth action plans, motions into state parliament,

01:09and other legislation as well.

01:12So last year we created two really big frameworks into mental health barriers to accessing mental

01:18health services in South Australia, and the barriers to accessing period products in schools.

01:24We were recently at the United Nations Summer of the Future in New York.

01:28We were expert witnesses at the National Inquiry into Civics Education, and we are looking

01:35into youth loneliness with Flinders University.

01:38A lot of people would see our work influencing these national decisions as some of the biggest

01:46highlights of the forum, and yes, they are incredible.

01:50The biggest highlight for me is being able to work alongside so many people doing incredible

01:59things.

02:01It just builds up every little inch of me and continues to mobilise my own passion.

02:08Youth voice is incredibly empowering, it's incredibly powerful as well, and youth community

02:15is even more powerful.

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