{"id":870,"date":"2010-09-07T02:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2010\/09\/07\/orbost-secondary-college\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T02:49:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:49:52","slug":"orbost-secondary-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/orbost-secondary-college\/","title":{"rendered":"ORBOST SECONDARY COLLEGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ORBOST STUDENTS DISCUSS POLITICAL ISSUES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>September 7, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senior students from Orbost Secondary College raised their concerns about a range of local issues, during last week\u2019s visit from The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester was guest speaker at the school assembly before talking to senior students about the recent Federal election and current issues affecting young people in East Gippsland.<\/p>\n<p>During his address, Mr Chester challenged students to aim high and aspire to achieve their best in their chosen pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever sell yourself short, just because you come from a small country town,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of respect for yourself, and respect for your teachers, parents and friends \u2013 you should be working hard to set your course for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing you want to happen is to finish this year at school and think to yourself, \u2018I coulda done better\u2019, \u2018I shoulda worked harder\u2019 or \u2018I woulda done something differently\u2019. With everything you do in life, it\u2019s important to give it your best shot and your hard work will be rewarded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he met with the senior class members, Mr Chester answered questions on the hung Parliament and ways for young people to be more involved in community issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need young people to understand how they fit into the future of East Gippsland and the opportunities in the region to undertake further training or study,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s important to encourage students to increase their aspirations, it\u2019s critical that governments help to reduce the economic barriers to further study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve been working to improve the system of student income support to make sure that young people in East Gippsland have the opportunity to achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a long way to go before there is a fair and equitable system of Youth Allowance to put all students on a level playing field when it comes to accessing further education and training opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ORBOST STUDENTS DISCUSS POLITICAL ISSUES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>September 7, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senior students from Orbost Secondary College raised their concerns about a range of local issues, during last week\u2019s visit from The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester was guest speaker at the school assembly before talking to senior students about the recent Federal election and current issues affecting young people in East Gippsland.<\/p>\n<p>During his address, Mr Chester challenged students to aim high and aspire to achieve their best in their chosen pursuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}