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The Long, Slow Kiss Goodbye

31/10/2016

 
SCOTT COLVIN
Online only - 31 October 2016

​Dear MLS,


I am now in my final weeks of law school. Some of you may be, too. Others may have long or short amounts of your sentences remaining. But as the curtain closes across the stage for me, I wanted to write to you all to pass on some thoughts that have played on my mind. ​

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The Fall of Pepe, or: How I learned I Was A White Supremacist

31/10/2016

 
ANON
Online only - 31 October 2016
Politics are never far from the law school. A collective of opinionated students learning about the workings of law is bound to produce political discourse, and with the US presidential election looming the topic du jour is American politics. This year’s campaign has been unique in many ways. Americans are divided, yet they are united in their dislike of the two candidates. However, this week US politics came to affect me personally: you see, I’m a ‘rare Pepe’ collector.

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The Enrichment Centre: A Triumph of Poor Design

31/10/2016

 
ANON
Online only - 31 October 2016
The new enrichment centre on the mezzanine floor of the Law School is a triumph of poor design.

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In Defence of Legal Theory

31/10/2016

 
CLARE VAN BALEN
Online only - 31 October 2016 
Last week I interviewed for an internship at Judicial College. The College provides education to judges, magistrates and VCAT members about social issues so that they can do their jobs with rigour and community confidence. ​

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An Indulgent Tale of my time at De Minimis

26/10/2016

 
DUNCAN WALLACE
Volume 10, Issue 12
I came into the library early one morning in my first semester of law school and there was an issue of 
De Minimis, graffitied in pink highlighter with the anarchist symbol and the words, “SMASH THE SYSTEM”. 


How heart-warming, a fellow anarchist lived in the law school! I immediately developed an attachment to the newspaper. ​​

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Four Short-ish Remarks from an Unashamedly Biased and Soon-To-Be 'Former Editor'

26/10/2016

 
TIM MATTHEWS STAINDL
Volume 10, Issue 12
Shame! Two years as an editor of 
De Minimis and I’ve never written a single bloody word under my own name – as opposed to the trite inequities that can on occasion be found floating around the back page. So before departing, I thought it best to leave behind a few (four) parting thoughts.

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The Scoop Is In: Classes Not Thought Necessary

26/10/2016

 
SCOTT COLVIN
Volume 10, Issue 12
Reader, if you’ve followed my reporting over this year, you’ll know that we’ve been on the sticky end of several bombshells. From pouring cold water on the mythos of the level two fountain, to refusing to dance around the hard facts of the ball and sending razor-edged dispatches from behind clerkship lines, it’s been one hell of a year for hard-nosed journalism.

But this may be my biggest scoop yet.

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How Justin Bieber Will Make Me A Good Lawyer

26/10/2016

 
OLYMPIA WARD
Volume 10, Issue 12
People. Don’t be mad. I tried to buy Justin Bieber tickets. Be cool ok I have practically morphed with Triple J and I regularly say “have you heard the new Nick Murphy” or other random Australian artists who play the drums with sporks. ​

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In "Remembering Harambe" You Invoke the Spectre of Racism

26/10/2016

 
NICK PARRY-JONES
Volume 10, Issue 12
You know what really rustles my jimmies? Harambe memes.

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Thank You and Goodnight

26/10/2016

 
KATHARINE KILROY
Volume 10, Issue 12

For some of us, this is our last week of classes at MLS. For most of those students, it is our last week of classes full stop. Ever. Or at least until we start our PLT. It’s the end of an era, the completion of decades of education and hard work. And I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a little nostalgic.

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This Too Shall Pass

26/10/2016

 
ROSIE FRANCIS
Volume 10, Issue 12

This is for my very dear friend who is embarking on her journey to recovery.

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Album Review: Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown

26/10/2016

 
HAMISH WILLIAMSON
Volume 10, Issue 12
Atrocity Exhibition
 is strange, bleak and brilliant. The album, Danny Brown’s fourth, centres on themes he’s explored before: excess, addiction, depression, artistic expression, and his experiences growing up in the ghettos of Detroit. These concepts are mostly delivered in Brown’s trademark yelp, with the kind of densely packed rhymes his fans are familiar with (‘Verbal couture/Parkour with the metaphors/The flow house of horror/Dead bolted with metal doors’).

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PSA: The Privacy Myth

26/10/2016

 
MITCH CLARKE
Volume 10, Issue 12
The Sydney Morning Herald recently published an article by Henrietta Cook titled “University Students, you are being watched”. Upon further discussion with some of my friends and discovering a general lack of understanding, I thought I should take the time to lay out the privacy framework of the University of Melbourne (or lack thereof). ​

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What MLS has Taught Me, or, Neutrality is Not Always a Good Thing

26/10/2016

 
TERESA GRAY
Volume 10, Issue 12

I didn’t come to Melbourne Law School with unrealistic dreams about what a law degree could offer me. I had an Arts degree, and I’d worked a bit previously; I wanted better employment prospects, and the chance to do something more practical with my time.

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At The Movies with Sarah: Brooklyn

26/10/2016

 
SARAH GOEGAN
Volume 10, Issue 12
​This week, Sarah reviews Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, and starring Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen and Domhnall Gleeson

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A Word From Your Cartoonist

26/10/2016

 
HARLEY NG
Volume 10, Issue 12
​If a picture paints a thousand words, I am probably the most prolific writer for De Minimis. That being said, I would like to thank all the editors in the past two years for giving me a chance and the artistic freedom to draw and publish. It has been a blast. If anyone needs an illustrator, contact me at [email protected].

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Staying Sane in SWOTVAC: A conversation with MULSS' Mindfulness Group Facilitators

25/10/2016

 

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Open Letter to Premier Daniel Andrews

19/10/2016

 
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The Community Right to Buy – A Proposal to Save Our Heritage

19/10/2016

 
DUNCAN WALLACE
Special release - 19 October 2016

Local ownership has been found to be extremely important for local economic prosperity.
 
Research has found that if you spend your money at, for example, a supermarket chain, 80% of your money will have left the local area immediately. This is known as “monetary leakage”.
 
Stopping such leakage allows for what’s called a Local Multiplier Effect.

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An Ode to the Corkman Pub and a call to action

17/10/2016

 
The historically significant Corkman Pub was built in 1857 and was one of the earliest extant buildings in Carlton. It was knocked down on the 16th of October following a “suspicious fire”on the 8th. It has been alleged by a Melbourne City Councillor that the heritage listed pub was demolished without a permit. Indeed, it has been confirmed that a “Stop Work Order” was issued on Saturday morning, before the demolition was completed on Sunday. Further, given that the Pub was heritage listed, it is unclear whether demolition at any time would have been allowed. A Law Student working group has been created to look into the matter and to see whether a rebuilding of the Pub could be ordered.

If you are interested in joining the working group please email [email protected]. 
​And please sign the petition!!

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I'm Weary About the Ways of the World

10/10/2016

 
DINU KUMARASINGHE
Volume 10, Issue 11
So this has nothing to do with law school. The story has a barista in it, and I guess there’s a (bad) joke there about none of us getting jobs blah blah so you go in wanting to be a barrister leave being a barista LOL lol lmfao rofl, or whatever. But anyway, the point of this preface is to tell you this article doesn’t really have anything to do with law.

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The Matter of Marks

10/10/2016

 
BEINI WU
Volume 10, Issue 11
So I was thinking about my first law exam today. It was definitely an experience. I’ve never spent so long studying for an exam, and never feared failing more. But hey, what’s done is done. What did I want to talk about in this post again? Oh yeah, how it all doesn’t really matter, but kind of really does. ​

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I'm Not Mad, I'm Just Disappointed

10/10/2016

 
KATY HAMPSON
Volume 10, Issue 11
Recently we all received an email from the Dean of MLS Carolyn Evans (see below this article​). She methodically outlined the reasons the law school would not take the step to record our seminars. Some of you may have felt anger, confusion, indignation or apathy. ​

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Melbourne Law School Fees Rising at Double the Rate of Inflation

10/10/2016

 
DUNCAN WALLACE
Volume 10, Issue 11
A student contacted me last week to express the horror they felt when they looked at their statement of liability. Since 2014, the year they started the JD, fees for each subject (or ‘unit’) had gone up by $368. This meant that, compared to 2014, they were paying an extra $2944 per year if they did 8 subjects per year. Next year, fees for each subject will go up an extra $96. If they extend their degree by an extra semester, then, assuming they do three subjects, this would hit them with an extra $288 compared to if they’d finished ‘on time’. 

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A First Year Lesson In Gender Equality

10/10/2016

 
GABBY VERHAGEN & JACOB RODRIGO
​MICHAEL SABLJAK & VIRGINIA HOLDESON
Volume 10, Issue 11

At last Thursday’s MULSS AGM, the resolution to pass a gender equality provision for the First Year Representatives (“FYRs”) failed. De Minimis has decided to publish side-by-side a couple of voices from each side of the debate. The proposed amendment was to insert the following sentence into the MULSS Constitution:
“Where possible the three First Year Representatives must not all identify as the same gender.” ​

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