00:00It's not your normal lunch time at Sirius College in Broadmeadows.
00:07These teenagers are the first to vote for a Mayor in Metropolitan Melbourne.
00:14The Young Mairs program is all about embedding young people in the decisions that impact their lives.
00:19There's many factors that are important such as safety, there's environment, there's mental health.
00:27Helping us feel like we're heard and like we matter.
00:30This isn't the world I think us teens want to live in.
00:34Their votes certainly matter to Tehrim Lukmani.
00:40I want him to be safe, supported and strong, so that's the main reason.
00:44I want to be the one who makes this change.
00:46I want to have more safety here.
00:48Safety and jobs are the key issues for fellow candidate Amar Mahmoud.
00:53We're getting things done for young people, so it's like, by young people, for young people.
00:58Around 4,000 young people are expected to cast their votes across Hulme over two weeks.
01:03Once those votes are counted, the winning candidates will be sworn in in December.
01:08Sticker or stand? Stand.
01:10They'll work alongside the actual council.
01:13We want to see more of these young people get the experience here,
01:16and then maybe in a couple of years' time consider putting their hand up to have my job.
01:20The Young Mayors program has high ambitions too.
01:23Our ambition for young mayors is for every council in Australia one day to have their own youth council,
01:29and we can't do that alone.
01:31With the state election next year, the Victorian Electoral Commission is involved.
01:35The more organisations we can partner with to let young people know their vote's important,
01:40their vote counts, and this is how to vote, the better off we're going to be.
01:43For these young people, the sky's the limit.
01:46Future Prime Minister? Yes, 100%. Very, very soon, hopefully.
01:50The fourth exercise of spilled water.
01:52I'm going to find the FDA.
01:54The FDA is working on both of these people who have received the Korean Peninsula.
01:56I'm going to find the FDA.
01:58The FDA.
02:01The FDA.
02:04The FDA.
02:06The FDA.
02:07The FDA.
02:08All the FDA.
02:10After the FDA.
02:11The FDA.
02:12The FDA.
02:13The FDA.
02:14The FDA.
02:15The FDA.
02:16The FDA.
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