Miss Adamson returned home to Griffith after attending a model United Nations summit in Shanghai, where the brightest young minds tackled some of the world's hardest-hitting problems.

She came as a representative of Indonesia and worked alongside a team of delegates to think of ways to stamp out human rights violations and bring peace to Afghanistan.

They discussed strategies in dealing with the Taliban and came up with ways to allow people to discreetly report human rights abuses to UN security agents.

Miss Adamson said she thoroughly enjoyed the chance to meet with driven, like-minded young people from around the world.

"It was really incredible to be able to meet so many people from different cultures and see how their style of debating differs," Miss Adamson said.

Miss Adamson has a keen interest in politics, a passion she inherits from her dad Greg Adamson, who takes her along to National Party conferences where she can rub shoulders with people in power.

There aren't many 16-year-olds who attend political party conferences, but Miss Adamson said they're always fun and eye-opening.

"Being able to talk to the politicians at these conferences is amazing," Miss Adamson said.

"Not many people my age get to do what I do, so I'm really flattered and thankful for that."

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During her National Party visits she's spoken with many big-name politicians, some of whom she's found inspiring and others who are downright infuriating.

She finds that some of the older generation of politicians she's met can be stubborn and stuck in the past, which is why she's hoping to bring in some new ideas from a younger generation's perspective.

Although she finds some National Party politicians to be a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, she shares their determination to barrack for regional and rural Australia.

"Growing up in regional Australia I'm really passionate about how we're treated - especially when it comes to health care and education," she said.

Having just turned 16, Miss Adamson is almost always the youngest person in the room, but she's got a powerful voice and she's not afraid to use it.

She's a member of her school's debating club who has ambitions to become a big mover and shaker in the world when she's older.

She currently plans to study business and economics when she goes to university, and she's considering studying politics further down the track.

"For me, politics is about making life better for people in your electorate and being able to represent those who don't have a voice or who don't have the opportunity to speak," she said.

"I've joined the young Nats, and hopefully that will give me a platform to be able to speak, get my generation's point of view across, and hopefully have an influence."

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