It’s an enormous honour to have been elected as the new Federal President of the Young Liberals over the weekend and I wanted to outline my plan to make our Movement even stronger.
It’s an enormous honour to have been elected as the new Federal President of the Young Liberals over the weekend and I wanted to outline my plan to make our Movement even stronger.
On 26 January 2019, Federal President Josh Manuatu tabled the 2018-19 Young Liberal Annual Report which shows that the Young Liberals has fully implemented its Strategic Plan to become an active and activist movement.
The Federal Liberal Government has just announced that it will commission a review of freedom of speech, to be conducted by former High Court chief justice Robert French, at universities following the countless examples of the oppressive left shutting down debate and centre-right thought on campus.
The Government has just announced that it is formally considering moving the Australian embassy in Israel to West Jerusalem and has placed the Iran Nuclear Deal in review.
Former Federal Young Liberal President Claire Chandler has been preselected as the Number 2 Tasmanian Liberal Senate Candidate for the next election.
In January when we released our Strategic Plan, we committed to build an active and activist Movement that’s focused on our values and invests in improving all that we do.
The Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced that the Federal Government will end Australian aid being provided to the Palestinian Authority and instead redirect our Aid to the United Nations' efforts in the region. In her announcement, the Minister said:
At the Liberal Party's Federal Council, a number of key policy motions put forward by our Movement were passed. This again highlights that we are making the case, leading the charge and delivering results.
At the Liberal Party's 2018 Federal Council, Federal Young Liberal President Josh Manuatu successfully moved:
This Federal Council calls on the Federal Government to relocate the Australian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and to suspend aid to the Palestinian Authority until it terminates its ‘Martyrs’ Fund.
The motion was passed 44 votes to 37.
WATCH Federal President Josh Manuatu's speech here:
Tonight’s Budget handed down by Treasurer Scott Morrison is good for young Australians and is in keeping with our values.
Federal President Josh Manuatu made the following formal submission to the Treasury as a part of the Budget process. You can read the submission on the Treasury's website here.
Applications have opened for the Electoral Development Officer programme for the Tasmanian and South Australian Elections.
Josh Manuatu from the ACT and Mitchell Collier from Queensland have been elected the new President and Vice-President respectively of the Federal Young Liberals at the Movement’s AGM in Brisbane today.
The Young Liberals are Australia’s largest youth political Movement but we must do more to be the most effective.
ABC’s politically correct move is damaging The ABC’s decision to move the Triple J hottest 100 from Australia Day to the fourth weekend in January is just the latest example of political correctness gone mad, according to Australia’s largest youth political movement.