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BEN WILSON
Vol 11, Issue 8 I’m writing this to my future self, and the message is simple: remember why you’re doing this. You’re doing this because you want to wear your underpants on the outside. That’s what your philosophy prof said with a sardonic smile, as pint in hand you were spilling your guts about your future. He nailed it. If you were in this for pleasure, you’d have stayed working with computers up North. Half the money, but one quarter the hours and one tenth the stress. You’re doing this because you want to be a hero. And you’re going to have to hold onto that, because things are about to get hard. ALICE KENNEDY
Vol 11, Issue 8 A week or so ago I made the error of misplacing my Commercial Law in Practice textbook. As a consequence I learned two things. Firstly, that the security desk has been removed from the ground floor and secondly, that lost property has been replaced by a hole in the space-time continuum. Both these facts have staggering implications for students at MLS, so please, read on. ANONYMOUS
Vol 11, Issue 8 It was in my 2nd week of law school that I was offered drugs. An enterprising student had ferreted away a pharmaceutical drug, a methylphenidate variant, and was charging about 40 bucks for... well I can't remember to be quite honest, but it was a decent amount. A large part of this was probably him figuring that hell, in law school you can get it on every corner. In large part, he was right. RUBY BELL
Vol 11, Issue 8 In the years since the Howard Government passed the Marriage Amendment Bill 2004, the issue of same sex marriage has become increasingly ubiquitous in Australian politics. Despite progress having been made for gay and lesbian Australians -- for example, the legal recognition of same sex de facto relationships in 2008 -- it remains that a marriage in Australia can only be entered into by a man and a woman. DINU KUMARASINGHE
Vol 11, Issue 8 Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau’s documentary Trophy enters the debate around big game hunting, and its counterintuitive connection to conservation. Anchored in the narrative of John Hume, a private rhino breeder in South Africa, the film initially suggests a dichotomy: trade and survival against bans and extinction. Of course, it’s not that simple and Schwarz and Clusiau know this. Where Hume profits from the living rhino, Philip Glass, the eager American hunter with whom the film starts, represents the consumer. Somewhere in between, we are told the animal itself might benefit. Trophy never answers its own question about how we best preserve Africa’s big game. Still, it covers a lot of ground and in doing so raises new questions about power, predators and prey, winners and losers. LUKE THOMAS
Vol 11, Issue 7 Once people figure out I’m from the US, they want to talk to me about two things: American politics or American sports. These people are generally well intentioned and if this were still 2014, I’d love to chat (as long as they’re buying my drinks). But nowadays, I can only say so much about the bombastic Cheetos-coloured fuckmuppet leading our country before the conversation gets too depressing and I’m drinking unsociably and they’re asking me to stop weeping on their shoulder...so…yeah, I try to talk sports. Except I only watch about three American football games a year so I don’t have much to say there either. In an attempt to be more American, I’ve combined my love of politics with an analysis of sports. DECLAN FRY
Vol 11, Issue 7 The judge make time. You know that, right? The judge make time, so it ain’t shit. - Kendrick Lamar, “i” (To Pimp A Butterfly, 2015) SARAH GOEGAN
Vol 11, Issue 7 This week Sarah reviews Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Luke Evans, and directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls). We don’t need a plot summary because everyone knows the plot of Beauty and the Beast. Pls. JESSIE FERNANDEZ
Vol 11, Issue 7 Do you think others are too easily offended but feel offended yourself when you are called out for overt or casual discrimination? You may be experiencing privilege-ism. Privilege-ism is when someone hurts, humiliates, intimidates, offends or treats you less favourably based on or because of your privilege. NATHAN GRECH
Vol 11, Issue 6 Older generations always seem to comment on the differences between the youth of today and when they were young. Musical tastes contrasted with artists of a bygone era, cyclical fashion trends that arouse nostalgia, and the classic recklessness and rebellion that each new generation apparently continues to descend into. NICK PARRY-JONES
Vol 11, Issue 6 Recently a friend of mine, when discussing his recent non law grad job salary lackadaisically told me, “no one gets into law for the money.” This was news to me, as my own journey to MLS began when I spoke with the head of my Arts discipline school about job prospects. It was not a happy conversation, so I decided to aim for the top. By “top” I meant both intellectually and fiscally. I was, and still am, about getting paid. TIMOTHY SARDER
Vol 11, Issue 6 “UMSU’s power comes from the fact that we represent all students. In the past, we’ve been more focused on undergraduate students. It wasn’t a deliberate decision, it was just something that happened,” Yan Zhuang assures me, stating “The LSS and the GSA clearly play an active role in representing law students, though I believe in the whole principle that these organisations working together are able to achieve more than if they were completely apart.” KAI LIU
Vol 11, Issue 6 “There’s too many of you people here.” That was the ultimate end of a conversation I had, which had been initiated by a white bloke saying to me “Maybe I should learn Mandarin if I want to be Australian in the future”. |
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