About AYAC

The Australian Youth Affairs Coalition (AYAC) is Australia's non-government youth affairs peak body. Officially launched at our first Annual General Meeting on the 16th of May 2002, AYAC's formation is the result of several years of work by state and territory youth affairs peaks and a number of national youth sector organisations, following the wind-up of the previous peak body AYPAC in 1999.

AYAC aims:

AYAC is currently unfunded and has no paid staff. It is managed by an elected Executive Committee of volunteers. We are in the process of seeking funding so that we can provide a strong independent voice for young people and organisations that work with young people in Australia.

AYAC is an incorporated association. A copy of our constitution can be downloaded from http://www.ayac.org.au/media/constitution.pdf. (You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file.)

Structure

AYAC is governed by a National Representative Council, which can consist of up to 22 members and includes office bearers, one representative from each state and territory youth affairs peak, eight representatives from national youth organisations, two general members, one representative from an indigenous organisation and one representative from a CALD Organisation. All members are elected at the annual general meeting. The members for 2006 - 2007 are:

Each state and territory youth affairs peak has permanent membership of the National Representative Council. They are:

An Executive Committee elected by the National Representative Council attends to the day to day operations of the organisation while it is unfunded. The members for 2006 - 2007 are: