At the start of each year, students at Yeronga State High School are asked what’s wrong.

As part of the school’s student voice program – now in its fifth year – students hold regular summits to work out what could be done better.

“We wanted to make sure that [for] things that were bubbling up, instead of it turning into a negative thing, we would get on the front foot,” middle school head of department Holly Haswell-Smith said.

Yeronga State High’s middle school head, Holly Haswell-Smith (left), manages the school’s student summits and offshoot programs, which year 11 student Asha Abdelrahman Selat (right) regularly attends. Credit: Catherine Strohfeldt

“Especially in the past five years, global events have really played out at the local level, and we wanted to support students and

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