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The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is the national umbrella body for refugees and the organisations and individuals who support them. A growing proportion of those arriving to Australia as refugees and humanitarian entrants are young people, with 74 per cent of new entrants over the past five years aged under 30 years on arrival. RCOA embarked on this national youth consultation project in order to develop a targeted and informed strategy for the ongoing engagement of young refugees and humanitarian entrants in advocating to have their needs and concerns addressed, and their ideas recognised, at a national level. This report is an abridged version of the findings from this project, omitting some of the findings and recommendations specific only to the Council.