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Advocacy Role-Play Cards

In your coding club, choose one advocacy brief. Work as a team to prepare a short presentation, campaign or meeting. Use respectful language, check facts before presenting them, and avoid pretending to speak for people whose experiences are not your own.

Choose an advocacy brief

Each card gives your team a cause, an audience and a task. Use the planning prompts below to shape your message.

CARD A — Fair access to learning Your team supports community-led efforts to improve education access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Consider barriers such as culturally safe learning environments and access to support. Audience: a school-community forum. Task: Give a two-minute proposal for practical changes schools could make. Use respectful, strengths-based language and make clear that affected communities should guide decisions. A strong presentation identifies a concern, suggests achievable actions and explains how progress could be checked.

CARD B — Welcoming new neighbours Your team is planning an inclusion campaign for people who have recently settled in Australia, including refugees. Possible concerns include difficulty understanding rental processes, finding work or accessing translated information. Audience: local residents and community services. Task: Design a short awareness campaign with one clear message and two actions people can take. A strong campaign names its audience, explains why inclusion matters and uses welcoming, non-stereotyping language.

CARD C — Access in shared places Your team is supporting people with disability who want to use local shops and community venues. Consider access to entrances, pathways, websites and customer information. Audience: local business owners. Task: Present a case for improving access and propose two specific changes. Explain how the changes could help a wider range of customers. A strong pitch gives practical examples, avoids assumptions about disability and links access to participation and fairness.

CARD D — Fair chances in technology Your team wants technology workplaces and leadership groups to be fair and welcoming across genders. Consider recruitment, pay transparency, workplace culture and who gets opportunities to lead. Audience: managers at a local technology business. Task: Recommend two realistic workplace policies and explain how the business could assess whether they are working. A strong pitch identifies a specific issue, proposes measurable changes and avoids treating any gender as a single group.

Plan your message

Use the brief your team selected. Answers will differ; the examples in the answer key show one reasonable approach.

1.Which cause and community does your team’s chosen brief focus on?

2.Name two specific barriers or unfair situations raised by your chosen brief.

3.For a campaign about fair access to learning, which audiences could help make change? Select all suitable options.

School leaders
Local council
Families and community-led organisations
Local businesses unrelated to the issue

4.Write one clear change your group wants the audience to make. Make it achievable and connected to your chosen brief.

5.Which two or more strategies could make an advocacy message persuasive and responsible? Select all that apply.

Use checked evidence and explain where it came from
Suggest a specific action the audience can take
Explain who may benefit and how
Share someone’s personal story without permission
Use respectful language and acknowledge different viewpoints

6.Suggest one way your coding club could invite community members to contribute to or respond to your advocacy effort.

Useful language and key terms

Advocacy means supporting a cause or seeking change. Discrimination is unfair treatment connected to characteristics such as race, disability or gender. Inclusion means removing barriers so people can participate and feel respected. A pressure group is an organised group that seeks to influence decisions or public views.

7.Complete the statement with your own proposal: “Our team is asking to because .”