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Yesterday, at #PSAI2019, I presented some first results from ongoing research I've been doing (mainly as a side-project until now) on Australian major party youth wings. I've done interviews with youth wing execs in all states & territories, plus an online survey. A wee #thread
"Why should we study youth wings?" Well, they're a key entry point into parties, they help us understand party organizations, & they develop party officials, candidates, MPs & prime ministers of tomorrow. Like these lads, who led NSW Young Labor & Young Liberals back in the day. 
But for some reason, we tend to ignore youth wings in much of the work on party organizations and memberships. They rarely get a mention even in some of the best studies on those topics and there is only one (excellent) book focused on youth wings in English (Bruter & Harrison).
