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Dreams of Zutara

25/5/2020

 
Issue 13, Volume 17

MAX FERGUSON

All three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender are currently out on Netflix. Being the well-informed chap that I am, I also happen to know that there is a live-action remake in the works. So, being isolated and all, the time seemed right to finally see what all the fuss was about. My friends have, for years, implored me to watch the original Avatar. I’d blow them off with the old ‘it’s on the list’. Of course, there is no list, and if anyone ever says that to you, you have a moral obligation to call out their flagrant lies.
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Vale, Pen and Paper

22/5/2020

 
Issue 12, Volume 17

ANONYMOUS

From pulp, to dust! With tears we must

Condemn our trusty pens to rust. 
Old faithfuls down their quills and flee,
On ballpoint steeds retreating. 
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Kirbs

20/5/2020

 
Issue 12, Volume 17

ANONYMOUS
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The Whole Field of Human Knowledge

15/5/2020

 
Issue 11, Volume 17

EMILY SANDRUSSI

​When I was three years old my mother purchased a full set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for me. They are beautiful and fearsome books – heavy, bound in black leather, pages gilded with gold, with a dedication on the first leaf that reads ‘to my darling daughter’. Our family purchased a computer before the books could become useful, so for the majority of my life the extent of my relationship with the encyclopaedia was located in the time and physical effort it took to load and unload them into boxes each time my family moved (a frequent event).
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Tower of Babel

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short poems about the law – a final year jd student’s perspective

14/5/2020

 
Issue 11, Volume 17

​ANONYMOUS

visceral
A law of the earth, and so that he was heard
This life and strength and sorrow, the soul.
 
The league of sorrow, the angel of the morning sun
Our blistered feet stand, and the fall streams
 
Harmonious and strange, we judge not but our own
Your justice in the rain is formed
 
We dance and the deepest waters trickle
This law of the long light of sky is strewn.

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Half Baked Thoughts with Hannah

13/5/2020

 
Issue 11, Volume 17

HANNAH ORLOFF

Headlines, facts, alternative ‘facts’ and opinions burn our eyeballs and worm into our ear canals from the moment we wake up until our last conscious moments each day. That we are living in the ‘Information Age’ is a hackneyed and obvious expression – yet it has important implications for student journalism. In this country, we can learn about virtually any topic through our search engine of choice, on social media, in podcasts and so on. When it comes to our campus magazines, papers and journals, we want localised, relevant and humanised content. It would be concerning if people were looking to De Minimis for comprehensive and perfectly accurate articles on China’s barely trade war with Australia, or some newborn celebrity name (can someone confirm that pronunciation?). We can get that from (hopefully) more credible and articulate sources. 
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One Morning in the Life of Jared Denis

12/5/2020

 
Issue 11, Volume 17 

JOHN SATURA

The year was 2030.

Jared panicked as he reached up to pat his bean, his eyes darting left and right at the sea of wom*n surrounding him, all hairy armpits, FemmeParty-slogans-on-pins and smock dresses. “Oh Christ. Please tell me I didn’t forget my pussy hat!” he thought.
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De Minimis Needs to Change

10/5/2020

 
Issue 10, Volume 17

​ANONYMOUS

Guys it’s time for all the bullying and shit stirring to stop. Last night we all saw De Minimis publish another tired attack on the so called snobbish culture of Melbourne Law School and the entirely predictable trash heap that resulted in the comments section. Frankly I’m tired of these constantly negative attacks against my fellow students. Its time we start seriously asking for change.
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People at MLS have ruined my enjoyment of the JD

8/5/2020

 
Issue 10, Volume 17

ANONYMOUS​

Everything I had read about the JD before I began was stuff that I was confident I could handle; high workloads, pressure to succeed, etc. And I could – I am a third year now, my grades are decent, and I landed a couple of clerkships. But the thing that has ruined my enjoyment is not all that. It is not the late nights poring over case law, or the rigorous application processes, but it is the other students here at MLS. Coming to the end of my degree, sadly, I must admit that certain people here are some of the most abhorrent individuals I have ever had the displeasure of knowing.
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There are More Things: A Brief History of Ghosts in the Law

7/5/2020

 
Issue 10, Volume 17

​EDGAR BOX

In
Stambovsky v Ackely, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court was invited to consider a rather novel justification put forward by a Jeffrey Stambovsky to refuse to complete a transaction to purchase a house. Namely, that at the time of the sale agreement, it had not been disclosed to him by the seller, a Helen Ackely, that the house was haunted. In its judgment, the court held that Mrs. Ackely, who had previously reported the alleged haunting to local newspapers and magazines, was on those grounds estopped from denying the existence of ghosts, commenting:


“Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by the defendant seller are parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication… and the local press… [the] defendant is estopped to deny their existence and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted.”
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Introduction of Judge-Alone Trials in Victoria a silver-lining of the COVID-19 Crisis

5/5/2020

 
Issue 10, Volume 17

JAMES SUTHERLAND

The coronavirus pandemic has sent shockwaves through just about every aspect of society. It has already resulted in many thousands of deaths worldwide, overwhelmed hospital systems, caused mass unemployment, and is certain to bring an end to Australia’s almost 3 decades of uninterrupted economic growth. 

In light of such devastation and destruction, each and every one of us as citizens have experienced substantial disruption, and we have adapted our lives accordingly. The Victorian justice system is no exception to this phenomenon
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GSA Council Elections 2020

4/5/2020

 
Issue 9, Volume 17​

Hey everyone, Graduate Students Association elections are happening RIGHT NOW!  The GSA represents graduate students across the university, and provides funding to dozens of grad groups, including
De Minimis and the LSS. 


As a law student, you’re entitled to vote for the incoming council, so just look for an email in your student inbox! Don’t forget, as voting closes at 10am, on the 22nd of May. 

Find out more about the candidates in their brief statements below:
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