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MATTHEW BRADFORD
Vol 11, Issue 5 It’s funny, in the two years since I’ve been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I don’t think I’ve ever properly acknowledged it. It’s been a part of me and who I am, without being who I am. Yet, the more I reflect upon it, the more it begins to feel like I’ve lived the majority of the past two years in denial about my situation. I don’t want CFS to define me, yet it has undoubtedly had an impact upon my internal narrative. VIRGINIA HOLDENSON
Vol 11, Issue 5 Last Tuesday evening as I sat on the tram mindlessly scrolling through Facebook, I was startled to see the headline: "Dear White People of MLS" appear in my Facebook news feed. I looked down at my pasty white skin and asked myself have the "white" people of MLS as a collective done something wrong? Who are the “white” people of MLS? And why is there a need to address them as a sub-sub group of the MLS? With my summer glow fading I opened the article to figure out what I (and my white counterparts) had done wrong. JACOB RODRIGO
Vol 11, Issue 5 We Melbourne Law School students love to complain. The topics we gripe about are varied: the length of our readings, Commerce students in our library, the inscrutability of clerkship applications. So too the forums in which we grumble: seminar breaks, pre-drinks, LMR Facebook groups—even the very pages of this hallowed scandal rag. SOPHIE METHER
Vol 11, Issue 5 With week five fast approaching and the year barely begun, it’s pretty natural to be chasing that aim of self improvement. As someone who is very much on the grade improvement bandwagon, here are some of the key things that have helped me improve so far. DUNCAN WILLIS
Vol 11, Issue 5 What’s actually happened to Clive Palmer? Australia’s cuddly political buffoon turned enemy of the working class has experienced something of a social media renaissance recently, even going so far as sharing old news clips of himself where the video has been edited to tell everybody to ‘smoke weed every day’, is that pretty much Clive telling people to smoke weed every day? (don’t smoke weed, it makes your eyes fall out) So what brought this transformation on? ASAD KASIM-KHAN
Vol 11, Issue 4 Last year a heritage-listed pub, The Corkman, was allegedly destroyed by developers of an apartment block on the same land. 2016 also blessed us with a Trump presidency – seemingly impossible, especially after he had demonised and denigrated Latinos, women, African Americans, and Muslims. DUNCAN WALLACE
Vol 11, Issue 4 A couple of weeks ago an article in De Minimis reported the commemoration, on the 3rd of February, of 50 years since the last ever execution in both Victoria and Australia. A couple of weeks before that, on the 20th of January, a similar commemoration occurred. This one marked 175 years since the first ever execution in Victoria. LUKE THOMAS
Vol 11, Issue 4 I used to be very deliberate about using taxis instead of Uber. In moments of drunken self-righteousness, I’d rail on to my friends about supporting the local economy while finishing the last swigs of my imported beer. Sometime around mid-2015, though, I eventually gave up defending 13 CABS and their annoying jingle. This was partly due to a few miserable taxi rides, but more because Uber is cheap, accessible, and really efficient. More than any ideological argument, I was won over by the convenience. CHI HAN YEO
Vol 11, Issue 4 Magic as a performance is one that combines psychology, deception, theatre, and the occasional bit of misdirection to create wonder. If that sounds fun to you, I’m hoping to give a little bit more information on how you can get started on your magical journey. GABRIELLE VERHAGEN
Vol 11, Issue 3 That time of the year is coming, the time where first years are intoxicated with the excitement of what is to come. Competitions are starting, co-opt positions are opening, and our applications for first year representative have been received and closed as of the March 12. THOMAS WHITESIDE
Vol 11, Issue 3 Excited to be starting uni in mid February? Actually looking forward to class? Just got your $140 copy of ‘Laying Down the Law’ (which you will never ever use again)? You log onto your student portal and look for the form for your Victorian Public Transport Tertiary Concession Card. Cos hey, you’re a full time student again right? ANONYMOUS
Vol 11, Issue 3 Last September, after a long and drawn out debate between members of the faculty and the student body, it was decided by the powers-that-be that the law school would continue to not make lecture recordings available for all students. KAI LIU
Vol 11, Issue 3 The flash across the row of traffic lights catches my attention as we pass through into Haikou city. That’s odd I think to myself, A lot of people speeding today. It wasn’t until later that I found out that they were actually photographing every single car that drove through. For security reasons, I’m told. HENRY HAMILTON
Vol 11, Issue 3 I receive a letter from Centrelink. It informs me that my low-income-health care-card is going to expire. My entitlement to concession public transport and medical care will expire with it. It also informs me that I can re-apply for my Low Income Health Care Card by merely filling out a form detailing any income I received over a specified 8 week period and attaching payslips as proof, plus miscellaneous other details. I have two weeks. I accept this opportunity. DECLAN FRY
Vol 11, Issue 2 Lygon St For a long time, while living in a glass and steel student apartment complex next to the Curtin Hotel, I would wander down Lygon St to the corner where the Curtin and Trades Hall face each other, before continuing down Russell St to go grocery shopping. RUBY BELL
Vol 11, Issue 2 Melbourne Law School is the highest ranked law school in the country. One would think that the strict entry standards would be enough and that it could safely be assumed that all students here are highly capable in an academic environment. ANNIKA MCINERNEY & GABRIELLE VERHAGEN
Vol 11, Issue 2 International Women’s Day is on 8 March every year. It is a day to celebrate women and recognise the ongoing inequality faced by those who identify as a woman around the world. It is about highlighting an intersectionality of disadvantage and working towards changing it. SARAH GOEGAN
Vol 11, Issue 2 Directed by Ted Melfi, Hidden Figures tells the stories of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), three mathematicians who worked for NASA during the Space Race. NATHAN GRECH
Vol 11, Issue 2 Attending Melbourne Law School has been on my radar for as long as I have been out of high school. I, along with most people reading this, were fortunate enough to make the cut. But I am one of the lucky ones. My route to accomplishing my goals and ambitions in adulthood has been a very smooth one. This is not the case, though, for many young people. |
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