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It’s been ANOTHER busy week! 📄If you’re curious about what goes on behind the scenes at a policy non-for-profit, check the policy briefs our team wrote that landed on politicians’ desks this week.
Want to read more? We’ve got a full library 📚 of one-page policy briefs that we’ve been building week by week waiting for you- check out the link in our bio 🔗. Follow along for more updates on the newest policy briefs written by our team at FORE! 💫

This week:
📄(SA) Include Microplastics as a Water Pollutant
📄(VIC) Mandate Tethered Bottle Caps to Beverage Containers
📄(Cth) Increase the Disability Support Pension Payment to Above the Poverty Line
📄(Cth) Include ‘Reproductive Health Grounds’ as a Circumstance for Flexible Work Arrangement Requests
📄(NSW) Fund Meningococcal B Vaccination Through the School-Based Vaccination Program
📄(NSW) Provide Unlimited Free Personal Phone Calls From Prisons
📄(Cth) Expand the Definition of Lobbyist to Include In-House Lobbyists
📄(Cth) Create an Australian Long Weekend

📌Reminder: FORE Good does not advocate for any solution. Our role is to catalogue and distil what experts have proposed.

#auspol #policy #reform
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Design 🖼️ by @olainpolitics

Grateful to be featured in Women’s Agenda last week! Thank you to the wonderful Jessie Tu for sharing what we do here at FORE Good.

Dual impact, that’s how we think about what we do. Building a policy library that gets solutions in front of decision-makers, while training the next generation of young people to understand how policy actually works.
300+ applicants. 100+ accepted into our last cohort. And yes, the occasional solo dance break is part of the process.

Thanks to the incredible volunteers, contributors, and collaborators who make this work possible. None of it happens without you.

Read the full piece via the link in bio.

Comment APPLY for the link to our application!

Imagine writing a policy brief that reaches the floor of parliament 🏛️

Applications for our Semester 2 Policy Training Program close 11:59 PM AEST, 1 July 2026, so now’s the time. ⏳
✅ Open to anyone 18+
✅ No policy background needed
✅ 10 Aug – 30 Oct 2026
✅ Published work + real skills + new network

You could be next.

We’ve had 350+ volunteers come through this policy training program in 2 years, and many of them have made friendships and connections that have lasted beyond the program🤩.

🔗 Apply via the link in bio before midnight July 1!

Introducing our fortnightly wrap up series 👋
Every two weeks, we’ll be pulling back the curtain on what FORE has actually been up to. The wins, the hard stuff and what we’re asking for help with. That way you can get an honest account of what it looks like to build a policy organisation from the ground up.
We believe policy should be transparent and accessible, and that goes for how we operate too. So swipe through and see for yourself ➡️
Drop any questions in the comments, or DM / email community@foregood.org.au if any of our asks resonate 💬
Thank you FORE your support! 💙
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Design 🖼️ by @olainpolitics

Please react 💙 if you learnt something new!
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It’s been a busy week 📑. Take a peek behind the curtain and check out the policy briefs that landed on politicians’ desks this week.
Want to read more? We’ve got a full library 📚of one-page policy briefs that we’ve been building week by week waiting for you- check out the link in our bio 🔗.
Follow along for more updates on the newest policy briefs written by our team at FORE! 💫

This week:
📄(Cth) Provide Family Reunion Pathways for RoS Visa Holders and Their Children
📄(Cth) Exempt Humanitarian Organisations from Criminal Liability
📄(NSW) Prohibit Consent-Based Strip Searches
📄(ACT) Prohibit Election Deepfakes
📄(Cth) Ban Subminimum Wages for Workers with Disability
📄(NSW) Remove the 10-Year Time Limit for Accessing the Victim Support Services Recognition Payment

📌Reminder: FORE Good does not advocate for any solution. Our role is to catalogue and distil what experts have proposed.

#auspol #policy #legalreform
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Design 🖼️ by @olainpolitics

💙 Drop a blue heart if you learnt something new.
In Australia, wheelchairs and other disability aids can be treated the same as regular luggage on flights ✈️ , despite being fragile, expensive, and essential to the daily independence of more than 3 million Australians.
When these aids are damaged, the consequences can be life-changing. Disability advocates have shared stories of broken wheelchairs, days spent housebound, missed work and appointments, and thousands of dollars in repair costs.
Yet under the law, disability aids aren’t always recognised as distinct from baggage. Disability organisations argue that a simple change in wording could make a big difference.
At FORE Good, we believe politics and policy is FORE everyone.
📖 Read the full brief by Emilie Everingham, Wei-Hsuan Kai, Philip Alex, Amy O’Brien, Elaine Qiao, Fraser Simpson, Liz Templeton & Sarah Frost in our Policy Library.
Because a wheelchair isn’t “just” luggage, it’s someone’s independence.

@emilie_everingham

Just wrapped up our first onboarding day for the new Winter cohort! 60+ people joined us online, with more catching up later and others continuing on from the last cohort.

It always amazes me the calibre of people this role attracts. Passionate, warm, intelligent people who care about making our world and democracy better!

So excited to welcome them into our team!

In 2026, the traditional career ladder is dead. Many of our team at FORE didn’t even start with policy. So, if you’ve never seen yourself in the world of policy, this one’s for you!
If you’ve ever looked at your field and thought “why isn’t this reflected in how we make laws?” then policy could be your next career move.
FORE runs 4 policy training fellowship rounds per year. Each one is 3 months of hands-on experience turning your sector knowledge into real policy briefs that reach politicians. If you’re interested check out our website in the bio🔗
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Design 🖼️ by @olainpolitics

Our team went to New South Wales Parliament for the first time today! It was both Soren’s and my first time, which made it even better.

We’re doing introductory meetings with offices across the country right now, sharing FORE and our Policy Library of one-page briefs. The feedback has been great from right across the parliament and I’m very happy to say that we’ve seen a real uptick in offices using the briefs since. 💙

Tip for meeting with MPs: always watch an MP’s inaugural speech before you meet them. It’s where they share who they are and what they care about.

And as always, a huge thank you to our volunteer team. We are so lucky that you come to learn and contribute with us!

At FORE, we believe politics and policy is FORE everyone.
💙 Drop a blue heart if you want to see more behind the scenes content.

#AusPol #NSWParliament #FOREAustralia #BehindTheScenes #PolicyForEveryone

We knew we had to invest in this. Women Deliver. If FORE Australia wants to be a bridge between experts, advocates AND decision makers, we have to be in the places where they are.

It has been such an honour and privilege getting to meet so many incredible activists, academics and change makers this week. To hear stories and perspectives in panels and workshops and at lunch, from around the world who are delivering for their communities.

To those I met. Thank you, I can’t wait to keep in touch. To those I didn’t, I hope we get to meet soon.

Because, we exist FORE you💙

💙 Drop a blue heart if you learnt something new.
Medicare covers anaesthesia to remove an IUD, but not to put one in. 🤔
Item 35503 of the MBS doesn’t cover local anaesthesia for IUD insertion, leaving people to pay up to $510 out of pocket for pain relief during one of the most painful procedures they’ll go through. And it hits low-income and marginalised groups hardest.
At FORE Australia, we believe politics and policy is FORE everyone.
📖 Read the full brief by Helen Tran & Charlotte Greet (published 07/08/2025) at FOREaustralia.com.
Because next time someone tells you pain relief isn’t a luxury, you’ll know Medicare already agrees… just not for insertion.
#WomensHealth #ReproductiveRights #IUD #Medicare #auspol

We have some new people here! Welcome! Here’s a quick re-introduction 💙

Policy shapes everything. Yet too often, expert-led and community-grounded ideas don’t reach decision-makers in the right format or at the right time - stalling progress.

FORE Australia, a youth-led, non-partisan organisation (currently becoming a charity!), bridges this gap. Working with experts, we’re building Australia’s first Policy Library of One-Page Briefs - an online, centralised resource helping policymakers quickly find, evaluate, and act on evidence-based policy solutions.

Our youth-led model fuels the Library. Each semester, we train 80-100 volunteers (selected from hundreds of applicants) who join to help build the resource 1-4 days each week. In return, they get critical early career policy experience and an opportunity to publish on topics that are important to them.

In under 18 months, we’ve launched in Federal and Victorian parliaments, trained over 350 new policy professionals, and published briefs that have made it onto the floor of parliament - all to help make reform faster and fairer.

After all, we can’t act on solutions we don’t know exist.

Thanks FORE your support!

Part 2: Thinking about taking your campaign to the media? 👀
Advocating to the general public and pitching an idea directly to an MP are two very different strategies and they can have different effects.
In this episode, we break down when to go public, when to go direct, and how to pitch your idea effectively to an MP.
Understanding when to use each approach can help you choose the right strategy at the right time.
Follow along for more advocacy tips from inside Parliament.
Save this video and send it to someone trying to make a difference.

We’ve launched something new 👀. FORE’s new mailing list of weekly one page briefs is live!... FORE real 😉

Fuel your impact every week. Get concise, expert-backed one-page policy solutions delivered straight to your inbox. It’s the biggest thing you can do right now to help us grow. Link in bio to join!

Thanks FORE your support

Do you follow your local MP? 👀
Wait - why not? This is one of the most underrated, effortless ways to stay passively informed about what your representatives are focusing on and the issues that effect you!

Not sure who they are? Don’t worry, we’ve got you.
Save this video for when you want to find every MP who represents you!

Tag a friend and let’s make following your MP normal?!? ✨

Thinking about taking your campaign to the media? 👀
Advocating to the general public and pitching an idea directly to an MP are two very different strategies and they can have different effects.
In this episode, we break down when to go public, when to go direct, and how to pitch your idea effectively to an MP.
Understanding when to use each approach can help you choose the right strategy at the right time.
Follow along for more advocacy tips from inside Parliament.
Save this video and send it to someone trying to make a difference.

@foreaustralia is hiring a Programs Manager to help lead and grow our core programs!

This is a part-time role (3 days per week) to start, with potential to grow to full-time subject to funding. The role is remote/hybrid within Australia, with Melbourne or Sydney preferred, and office space available in Melbourne CBD. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

You’d be joining a small core team and taking end-to-end responsibility for the management, delivery and growth of FORE’s programs — including our large Volunteer Policy Training Program and Volunteer Parliamentary Liaison Program — helping support hundreds of emerging leaders and strengthen pathways into policy and reform in Australia.

If you’re warm, organised, ambitious, great with systems, and excited by the idea of helping build something with real influence on Australian policy and politics, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply via Ethical Jobs or email your CV and Cover Letter to lucy@foreaustralia.com

#hiring

We’re still young, but Progress felt like a real step forward! A little glimpse of what it looks like to step into bigger rooms and bring you (and our new t-shirts!) with us.

#progress2026 #socialchange #youngleaders #communitybuilding #change

We’ve learned a lot about onboarding over the past 18 months - especially while recruiting what everyone can agree are some pretty huge cohorts!

This semester, we onboarded another cohort of future policy leaders, and we wanted to share a few of the lessons that have really shaped how we do it now.

Some of them are practical: don’t rely too much on standard process, give people time to actually take information in, and make the scary first steps easier by doing them together.

Some of them are bigger: there’s no one “right” background, and connection isn’t a bonus — it’s a huge part of what helps people settle in, participate, and make the most of their time.

A lot of this comes back to the fact that FORE is mostly volunteer-run, and our program is only three months long. People are giving their time to be here, and they don’t have long to find their feet. We want as much of that time as possible to go toward learning, drafting, building confidence, and meeting stakeholders — not sitting on the sidelines trying to work out how to start.

We’re also sharing this because our Sem 1 cohort has just begun, and we’re so excited for them. 💙

Welcome to Sem 1!!

#onboarding #volunteers #communitybuilding #youthleadership #publicpolicy

Part 2: When you pitch an idea, how do you know if it’s the most optimal time?👀
We’ve broken down the basics of what is a ‘policy window’ and how it can help you understand how to find the right timing for your next move.
Save this for when you’re ready to pitch, and send it to your favourite change-maker.

When you pitch an idea, how do you know if it’s the most optimal time?
We’ve broken down the basics of what is a ‘policy window’ and how it can help you understand how to find the right timing for your next move.
👀 Stay tuned for part 2, where we break down what conditions are needed for policy windows to arise.
Save this for when you’re ready to pitch, and send it to your favourite change-maker.

I couldn’t help myself… media team takeover Part 2 🤝
Here’s another impromptu interview sprung on Lucy. This time it’s ✨networking edition✨(from someone who’s worked inside Parliament and run for office).

That’s a wrap on our 2025–2026 Summer Training Program! 🎉

Our 2025–2026 Summer cohort has spent the past few months building their real-world policy skills: researching and writing one-page briefs, tracking key moments in parliament, and learning to confidently engage with MPs, stakeholders and experts across the sector.

For many, it was their first time stepping inside Victorian Parliament, speaking to a politician, organising a stakeholder meeting, or being forced to distil all of their research into a concise one-page format. But this has been exactly the kind of hands-on experience that will make this cohort stand out in their future and seeing their hard work land on the desks of decision-makers that matter has been beyond rewarding!

This cohort hasn’t just grown themselves - they’ve shared ideas, and shaped the way FORE operates.

Many are now stepping into policy advisor roles, leadership positions, or continuing on with us as volunteers.
To this cohort: thank you for your work, positivity, and your ambition.

We’re so glad we got to celebrate with you, dumplings and graduation karaoke!
Summer’s over, the dumplings are history… but we’re so glad we got to meet and work with you!

Semester 1 2026 is on the horizon. We can’t wait to see who’s next. ✨

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