I’m writing this less than two days after surviving my final year 11 preliminary exam. Ask any year 11 and you’ll quickly realise that prelims...
Sitting in a dark greasy room with 200 other students, I seem to lose track of anything important. The folded-down red chair is enticing me to...
The current world that you and I live in is obsessed with this superficial ideology of beauty, youth and a ‘wrinkle-free face’. Cosmetic...
“One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Those words have been quoted again and again in memory of the first moon landing...
Okay… So, we’ve recently watched the Barbie movie and were quite disheartened to see people missing the message that we and a few other women...
It would not be a fair or accurate statement to call myself a football fan. My knowledge starts and ends at being able to name three Premier...
Recently my church’s youth group changed names from Tribe youth to Ville youth, as in Kelly-ville. As someone who has grown up with tribe at...
I know I am late to the party on this one, but I thought I would go to the cinema and watch this doll movie that everyone seems to be going so...
In 1960, 500 people gathered in Central Park to protest bias against overweight people. They protested the negative stigma that was associated...
Over the past few years, and especially recently, Ben Roberts-Smith, a corporal in the Australian Special Air Service, has been a hot topic of...
This article was written for the Whitlam Institute's What Matters? Writing Competition and has been republished for WE ARE. It takes exactly...
This article was written for the Whitlam Institute’s What Matters? Writing Competition and has been republished for WE ARE. They say that...
Author’s Disclaimer: This article contains opinions on sensitive topics around abortion, medical procedures, and death. Please note that the...
I want to preface this article by saying that this is not written with the intent to persuade your opinion, put down others, or criminalise those...
People speak in languages I don’t understand, they act in ways I don’t like, and they believe things I don’t agree with. This comes down...
