{"id":47426,"date":"2026-09-18T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=47426"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:31:28","slug":"agents-of-change","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/agents-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you change the world and make it better?\u00a0 This is a question <strong>Leila Najdi<\/strong> (Year 5) addressed when she wrote a speech for the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/raiseourvoiceaustralia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Raise Our Voice&#8217;<\/a><\/em> competition held in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney. As the successful winner of the competition, her speech was read out in Federal Parliament by her local Federal member Simon Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Year 5 was especially proud of Leila as her speech advocated for vision impaired people.\u00a0 Having students at our school with visual access challenges was a strong motivation for her.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Simon Kennedy&#8217;s presentation of Leila&#8217;s speech below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2026 Simon Kennedy reads Leila Speech Y5 In Parliament\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1227523578?h=e293690259&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you change the world and make it better?\u00a0 This is a question Leila Najdi (Year 5) addressed when she wrote a speech for the &#8216;Raise Our Voice&#8217; competition held in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney. As the successful winner of the competition, her speech was read out in Federal Parliament by her local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[9],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-47426","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/47426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=47426"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=47426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}