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The National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia (NIYMA) is a not-for-profit organisation founded and run by Indigenous young people that envisages healthy, strong and free Indigenous communities.
NIYMA believes that to achieve this vision the practical reality is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people must be at the forefront of this movement.
To read the latest on what NIYMA has been up to click here.
Membership to The National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia is open to Indigenous people aged 18-30 years old. So get involved and make this your movement too.
>> Join NIYMA today!
>> Contact us (Email)!
>> Find out more about NIYMA
>> Find out more about Who's Involved
NIYMA Workshops: NIYMA have been running a number of Youth Engagement Workshops around the country throughout 2007, which will culminate in a National Gathering early this year. For more information about the Workshops and the National Gathering please click here.
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Message From The Chair 
There has never been a more critical time for Young Indigenous Australians to play a greater role in shaping and influencing the way the nation views and embraces its Indigenous people. Statistics tell us that out of the 400,000 Indigenous Australians there are in the country, 250,000 of them are under the age of 30. When you understand this demographic then you must realize, as NIYMA has, that the most critical investment we as a civil society can make into Indigenous Australia has to be an investment made into young people.
As we have all recently witnessed there has been a fundamental changing of the political landscape in this country. On the back of an ideology of ‘new leadership’ the Rudd led Labor party has swept to power with a convincing election victory. NIYMA believes that Indigenous Australia must adopt, mirror and affect a similar ideology of ‘new leadership’. History has taught us, and our future demands from us, that for Indigenous Australia to improve the quality of life that we live, to bridge the socio-economic divide between us and the rest of Australia, there must be new ideas, new perspectives – new leadership. NIYMA recognises and values the contribution and hard work of those that have come before us. But NIYMA also believes in those ahead of us.
In our work this year through the IYES, NIYMA has begun to unearth a new Cadre of leaders - intelligent, educated and earnest in their resolve to improve the quality of life of their peers and the nation in general. It is in this Cadre NIYMA sees an opportunity to effect long term positive change for not only Indigenous Australians, but all Australians.
Adele Cox
Chairperson
NIYMA
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