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What is Hindmarsh Shire Youth Council?

The Hindmarsh Shire Youth Council was established in May 2015 and has 17 members including the recipient of Hindmarsh Shire Council's Youth of the Year Award. Youth Council is an excellent opportunity to support your peers and community, develop your leadership and teamwork skills and make a positive change to your community.

Hindmarsh Shire Youth Council works to: 

Engage: consult and collaborate with young people in the shire to gather feedback and understand the needs and range of issues relevant to young people;

Provide Leadership: initiate projects to address issues important to young people and encourage and support young people to be involved in creating new opportunities;

Share: Represent young people, their ideas and recommendations, promote youth related matters and advocating for better outcomes, provide feedback and comments on matters referred by Council and provide regular feedback to Hindmarsh Shire Council on the Youth Council's achievements. 

Membership Term: 

Youth Councillors will serve a 12-month term and are invited to apply for as many terms as they see fit. All applicants are required to complete an expression of interest form and attend the required interview process. 

Eligibility criteria: 

  • Young people ages 12 to 18
  • live, work, study or socialise within Hindmarsh Shire 
  • Hindmarsh Young Citizen of the Year

Apply for Youth Council 2027: 

Online Application

Hindmarsh Shire Youth Council Application Form(PDF, 646KB)

Nominations close: Sunday 29 November 2026 at 11:59pm. 

Application forms can be downloaded, or you can collect a hardcopy at any of our Customer Service Centres and Libraries. 

If you ever have any questions relating to Youth Council or youth related activities in Hindmarsh, please contact our Community Development and Youth Officer, on (03) 5391 4444 or email youth@hindmarsh.vic.gov.au. 

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