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Week 2, Semester 2 By Tyson Holloway-Clarke I don’t get the chance to head to the Top End that often. I barely make it back to Tasmania most university breaks, so heading up to the Northern Territory is normally not on my radar. But last year in the last stretch of my thesis research I flew north to stay with family. I was hopping between different places pretty frequently. I went from Darwin, to Groote Eylandt, to Nhulunbuy, back to Darwin, down to Alice Springs, and finally back to Melbourne. I managed to spend good quality time with my aunties and uncles and my dad, and visit a lot of places from my childhood. It was all very familiar and comfortable, but something was missing. (Most notably my mum and my sisters, but something else too.)  Week 2, Semester 2 By Ian Khor This article is a follow up on the one I penned a couple of months ago. In that article (which you should read by the way because it’s like the best thing on De Min), there was an encouragement for all those who failed a subject last year and are thinking twice about whether they should continue the Juris Doctor program, or even whether they could become a lawyer at all.  Week 2, Semester 2 By Tilly Houghton The dreamer: an environmentally conscious MLS second year. The dream:
 Week 2 Semester 2 By Charlie McMillan Bad v Boujee [2016] CLR 4 is landmark judgment. It has proven to be the most cited from the 2016 Culture Law Reports and bears many thematic similarities with the much-lauded judgment Gin v Juice. It was even extrajudicially praised by Donald Glover at the 2017 Golden Globes.  Week 1, Semester 2 Last semester, I took part in The Legal Forecast’s (TLF) inaugural Race to the Future. TLF’s Victorian President, Sophie Tversky, describes TLF as a not-for-profit organisation that ‘aims to advance legal practice through technology and innovation...run by early–career professionals who are passionate about disruptive thinking and access to justice.’ Race to the Future involved the completion of a series of challenges around the Melbourne CBD, based upon technological disruption of the legal industry.  Issue 1, Semester 2 By Elif Sekercioglu We know it’s the 1970s in this novel because a plate of spaghetti costs $6 on Lygon Street and all the ladies drink brandy alexanders (a cocktail that belongs to the 20th century and should never again see the light of day). Based on her personal diaries, Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip is a delicious story where nothing much happens except the motions of everyday life in a bohemian community in Melbourne. All the characters can afford to rent groovy northside share houses, despite their employment being a mere diversion from their primary occupation of hanging out in each other’s kitchens to gossip. The novel captures a lifestyle that’s been rooted out of the inner-north by rising property prices. With gentrification and rising population come death knells such as this: ‘A Fitzroy North house that has links to Helen Garner’s late 1970s novel Monkey Grip sold at weekend auction for $3,185,000.’  Issue 1, Semester 2 By Tyson Holloway-Clarke I remember getting my first campus tour around Parkville. There were a lot of construction sites and it was all very confusing. I was 16 and wasn’t a huge fan of brutalism. In time I have grown fond of it. Back then I thought the St Lucia University of Queensland campus was much nicer. It had a ridiculous amount of sandstone, lots of sporting fields and plenty of space.  Artwork from Murrup Barak Issue 1, Semester 2 By Tricia Ong Over the last study break I went to Lorne for a day with two friends. We planned on going to Live Wire Park, Australia’s first ‘completely off-grid elevated adventure park’. It was meant to be a fun, destressing day. A day to forget all my problems and relax. A day of healing.  |
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