Fifty-four students participated in the 22nd Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) held in chilly Canberra over the weekend of 17-19 August.
The winners of the District 9820 MUNA competition, Yebin Yang (St Margaret's, Berwick), and Max Walton-Briggs (Berwick Grammar), performed extremely well and were awarded the Totenhofer Peace Prize. They represented South Korea and developed responses to six resolutions according to the views of the South Korean government. The resolutions focused on world peace, environmental issues and human rights. I thank the Chair of MUNA, District 9820, John Caruana, for inviting me to act as counsellor during the weekend. It was great to see so many young people debating important global issues in the House of Representatives in Old Parliament House.
Di Harrison