Providing access to leadership and enrichment programs for young people is a priority for the Rotary Club of Mudgee Sunrise. Each year the Rotary Clubs of Canberra host “Adventure in Citizenship” - a week in May for year 11 students to experience the workings of Federal government.
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The program had a strong impact on Brian Harris who attended in 2002 and is now Managing Director of Urban Greenaid in Perth. Brian writes:
At just 17 years old, I travelled to the nation’s capital for a one-week life-changing event. “Adventure in Citizenship” was an awakening experience in itself, but for me was a watershed moment in my early adult life.
Forty-five students from around Australia participated in the program that year; we stayed with local Rotarians and each day met at Parliament House.
Every day was different, everything from role-playing a debate in the upper house, to a live teleconference with our school from the office of our own federal MP. We met various parliamentarians whom we had only ever seen on TV. The experience gave us an understanding of the roles, functions and processes of government at a federal level, and our citizenship role as Australians.
I recall my parents’ observation upon returning home saying I came home a different person. They saw in me a young man with greater awareness, a confidence boost and an appetite for leadership. In 2017 In 2017 Harris officially became a member of the Rotary Club of Elizabeth Quay in Perth WA.
