Comment and Critique

Fizza Mirjalili Fizza Mirjalili

Identity

“Where I stand is still unclear. I feel torn between who I am.” - Fizza Mirjalili

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Jackson McFarlane Jackson McFarlane

Identity - Poem

“Can true identity be, if no one can see? And who am I really if no one can tell me?” - Jackson McFarlane

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Ruwandini Ranatunga Ruwandini Ranatunga

Identity

“I don’t remember how my dad survived that test of identity on that day, but the memory stayed on in my mind because it helped me understand that one’s identity is situational and has multiple attributes.” - Ruwandini Ranatunga

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Jessica Lander Jessica Lander

Identity

“For a lot of us, cultivating our own identities has been an essential yet complicated journey that we have embarked on since the highly turbulent hell known as adolescence.” - Jessica Lander

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Vasili Pittas Vasili Pittas

“A search for belonging”

“This  tension  caused  me  to  leave  Melbourne  in  order  to  explore  my  identities  and  I  embarked  on  a  seven  month  long  journey” - Vasili Pittas

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Fatma Turac Fatma Turac

“Stop Making Democracy Worse”? A rebuttal

In this “listicle”, Fatma Turac responds to a previous Rabelais article on voting, providing an argument as to why Australians should make their voices heard this election and head to the polling booths.

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Daniel Saunders Daniel Saunders

Stop Making Democracy Worse

In this fiery opinion piece Daniel Saunders goes through all arguments for compulsory voting and rebuts them, concluding that potential voters should in fact not vote at all this election.

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Harrison Croft Harrison Croft

Glasgow: Yet another COP-out

The COVID-safe Melbourne contingent will meet at the State Library of Victoria at 1pm November 6 - be there and bring your friends.

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Anonymous Anonymous

The culture of catcalling

In 2014, a video went viral where a woman spent 10 hours walking in silence in NYC getting catcalled. Whistles, winks, honks and body-shaming comments have been part of a growing culture of street harassment for many years.

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Genevieve Lancaster Genevieve Lancaster

Doing a PPE degree with Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia specifically affects the economics portion of my PPE degree, numbers on the page turn into a soup of digits that are virtually unfathomable!

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Bianca Breen Bianca Breen

Studying Abroad (Domestically)

The experience of studying online was kinder to me than most, thanks especially to my Creative Arts degree: writers are already goblins who are rarely seen outside their dwellings and without their laptop.

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