Aged just 22, Melburnian Yasmin Poole is already having a global impact We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Yasmin Poole still remembers her shock at seeing the zero. She was a 19-year-old youth activist with girls’ equality charity Plan International, working on research that examined 2000 young Australian women’s aspirations for their future. Of those aged 18-25, 0 per cent listed politics as a future career option. Yasmin Poole Credit:Martin Ollman It was 2018; these young women had grown up watching Australia’s first female prime minister ridiculed for her “big arse”, her empty fruit bowl and the fact she didn’t have children.