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A Tale of Three Constitutions

29/4/2020

 
Issue 9, Volume 17

JEREMY WAITE

Late last year, the University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association (GSA) embarked on a process of constitutional reform. For the unacquainted, the GSA is the peak representative body for graduate students at the University of Melbourne. You may be familiar with some of our long running advocacy campaigns on issues like transport concessions for postgraduate students, WAM adjustments for Semester 1 or stipend extensions for graduate researchers during the current COVID-19 pandemic. 
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Building 1888, home of the GSA (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

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Ode to COVID

28/4/2020

 
Issue 9 Volume 17

RENZO TWEEDIE

“I wrote this piece when everything was very uncertain and things I had been taking for granted were no longer accessible. Looking back, it’s strange to remember the mindset I was in. Now, I feel hopeful and determined, it really is amazing to experience our capacity to adjust. If you’re looking for someone to talk to happiness is only a teardrop away (haha love Shrek 2 but seriously my virtual door is always open).”
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Do you believe in ghosts?

21/4/2020

 
Issue 8, Volume 17

EMILY ZAHRA

Story time. We’ve all heard about local myths and legends. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, drop bears, etc. Most people, the non-believers as we call them, brush away these myths with an indifferent air. “The photo is too grainy”, or “that’s so fake”, or “it’s not physically possible, science says so!” they cry in the face of people who chose to believe. I understand that incredulity, because I used to be one of them. Until, that is, I had my very own supernatural experience. 
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A COVID LIMERICK

21/4/2020

 
Issue 8, Volume 17

SHANE FULORGEE

There was a young man sick of lock down
Who had spent the last week in his night gown
When there came a nice day
The cops took him away
For enjoying a long walk through the town.
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Which future unemployed lawyer are you? You will not believe what the upcoming recession has in store for you!

21/4/2020

 
Issue 8, Volume 17

LAUREN TAYLOR

This fun quiz will let you know what you and your friends will be up to in a year’s time! Awesome!

Tally up your scores as you go, and we’ll let you know what type of lawyer in the line at Centrelink you’ll be!
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Image: Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash

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Hot, Single Girls in My Area Are Really Scraping the Barrel

21/4/2020

 
Isuue 8, Volume 17

ŽIPRIŽE BUTŽEKS

Look, I don’t mean this as a flex, but a lot of girls are into me. A LOT. And I don’t mean, like, my grandma calls me up daily to ask about my day (which she does). This is a succession of real-live, jaw-dropping, scantily-clad babes taking a direct interest in me. 
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A Fun(?) Crossword to pass the time

14/4/2020

 
Issue 7, Volume 17

​CHARLES DRUMMOND-WILLOUGHBY, 2ND EARL OF PARKVILLE

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Our National Fetish

14/4/2020

 
Issue 7, Volume 17

HAMISH DUNDEE

No, it isn’t VB, Vegemite, or tying your partner to the bed using venomous snakes – it’s something much more dangerous. In fact, the things that many Australians can be reliably predicted to be interested in aren’t Australian at all: they belong to our Pacific cousin, the United States. 
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The Law School Panopticon

14/4/2020

 
Issue 7, Volume 17

GENCO CEYLAN

‘Induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power’ (Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 201).
 
You awake without an alarm. The day feels like it’s just begun, but the irrepressible march of time cares not how you feel. You check your phone. A never-ending stream of incomprehensible information about a pandemic. Your mobile phone, which has been a source of comfort for so many years, is again espousing an endless mire of nihilistic news.
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Goodbye, Bernie; I’ll Never Forget You

14/4/2020

 
Issue 7, Volume 17

JAMES COOPER-SMITH

For decades, Bernie Sanders has stood at the forefront of the Progressive movement in the United States. The man marched with Martin Luther King Junior, to give you an idea of how long he’s been aboard this boat. Last week, he suspended his campaign for President, effectively ceding the Democratic nomination to Joe Biden. There is no doubt that 2020 was his last hurrah.
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MLS Student Claims He is Made to Feel Inadequate by Other Students’ Social Media

7/4/2020

 
Issue 6, Volume 17

BORIS BULGAKOV

Recently redundant 3rd Year MLS student, Oliver Chester, has reported to De Minimis that he has started to feel quite shit about himself as a person, and he says other MLS students are partially to blame.

After finally getting out of bed around 11.30, Oliver picked up and put on yesterday’s t-shirt and met up with De Min over Zoom.

“So yeah, I guess I haven’t really been doing anything if I’m honest,” confessed Oliver.

​“Stared at some textbooks for an hour or two, watched an episode of Tiger King because Netflix has been shoving it down my throat and then it was 5pm so I thought I’d have a beer.”
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Pre-iso Oliver

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Cardinal Sin: Pell Out The Cell

7/4/2020

 
Issue 6, Volume 17

HARRIET BAKER-JONES

Content Warning: This article discusses sexual assault.

“It is better to allow ten guilty men to escape than allow one innocent man to suffer.”


Our criminal system is based upon a lofty premise: that depriving an innocent person of their liberty and freedom is worse than allowing a presumably guilty person to roam free. Unfortunately, today we probably witnessed the unfortunate turn of events where we allowed a guilty individual to escape. An overall injustice has more than likely occurred. George Pell’s accusers deserve our belief, and it is important to remember that George Pell is not necessarily innocent, but merely acquitted. 
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Open letter to the Dean: MLS should lower their fees this semester

7/4/2020

 
Issue 6, Volume 17

ANONYMOUS

NB: I write this to the Dean of MLS, Pip Nicholson, in the hope that she will respond. 

Dear Pip Nicholson, 

For fear of sounding like just another aggrieved and disappointed JD student adapting to this anxious time, I will be brief. I understand this is an entirely unprecedented situation and I appreciate the immense and commendable effort that MLS has put into the transition to a virtual campus. 

My concern, however, and that of many of my peers, is that this transition – although necessary – is understandably causing many full-fee paying/bursary students to question the value of what they are now paying for. 
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The Cat King of MLS

7/4/2020

 
Issue 6, Volume 17

MAX FERGUSON

The inaugural entry in
De Minimis’ latest column: Pets of MLS!


‘Cats, that’s what you people want, is it? A succession of cute furballs to detract from the irredeemable ugliness of your existence? Ugh.’ – Oprah Winfrey.

‘…cat people are backstabbing pieces of shit.’ – James Garretson.


Jeremy Waite is the eccentric, blonde owner of two mature female cats: Mika and Mei Mei. This reporter was lucky enough to secure an interview with the reclusive hermit, in his grungy inner-city bachelor pad. ​​
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