Good Evening @everyone. This is ABC News. I'm Jefferson Dufflecoat. It is 6pm AEDT, 5:30pm in South Australia, 5pm in Queensland, 4:30pm in the NT and 3pm in Western Australia.

Plans continue to progress for the President's Speech and the official handover to the Youmaton Government for this Friday. However even before the new government officially takes office, ABC News can confirm they are facing a challenge that may cause disruptions to Friday Night's proceedings.

This afternoon a joint statement was posted on the official web page of the Government's Youth Advisory Group, a group that came into being in July of this year, signed by 20 of the Council's 24 members and shared widely on social media, officially resigning their posts and "Calling on the Youth of Australia aged between 16 and 25 to engage in a national day of protest this Friday December 8th" against what they claim to be "the continued attitude of Members of Parliament both at state and federal level that the Youth of Australia's concerns are not worth worrying about until they can make a political gain from it" (edited)

The Statement says "It is clear from repeated meetings that politicians are just not listening to us" and that "The only way to ensure our voice is heard is to bring our voice to them, rather than waiting to be given the time for them to come to us".

ABC News can confirm protests of all sizes are planned in most major city centres but the two major protests mentioned in the joint statement "will make an impact to their power and an impact to their pocket". A large scale protest/blockade of the Port of Melbourne and a sit down protest in the Great Hall of Parliament House with the intention of either delaying or interrupting the President's Speech on Friday Night.

Security at Parliament House has already been strengthened in preparation for the expected protest and both ACT and Australian Federal Police have also been put on heightened alert. [6:05 PM] The statement does call for the protests to be non-violent but "If they try to silence us or remove us from our protests, we do not fear it". The statement ends with a plea to the people of Australia and members of parliament to "Stop ignoring us and start making progress with us"

Sources within the government say that while they support the right to protest, the President's Speech will be held on Friday Night without interruption and any attempt to disrupt it will be dealt with by the proper authorities.

Interestingly the 3 Youth Council Members from Tasmania are not amongst the 20 signees on the statement, the other member being from Queensland and no protests so far are planned in Tasmania, although there have been attempts to organize one.

It will certainly be a test for the new government and is a headache they didn't want so early in their term. ABC News will continue to monitor the story as it progresses.