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Biographical Details: Cecilia Condon is a Melbourne based writer and actor who works at the Wheeler Centre for The Emerging Writers’ Festival. She runs a blog, www.shmockery.com. She write non-fiction, fiction stories as well as poetry. She believes that “certain ideas demand to be expressed in a…

impacts athletes as they are perceived as role models by their supporters, in addition, bad behaviour can be further copied by young fans. This can be evidently explained by the Essendon scandal, the Essendon Football club are an AFL team based in Melbourne and have existed since 1871. They have won 16 premierships, which is the highest number of any club in the AFL. It is extensively understood that Essendon players took peptides during 2012. When consuming…

issues. Community based approaches have several dimensions that include ‘direct service provision’ and attempts to establish ‘pro-social relationships at the local level’. The focus of much media focus and public concern is the Sudanese youth in Melbourne. There needs to be a discussion on the legitimacy of these. Some would argue that the police response rather than any ‘gang’ problem should be the centre of concern. Crime prevention solutions can play an important part in diffusing…

The article is written by Susie O’Brien that was published on The Advertiser on 20 November 2010 arguing the rights for gay marriage, targeting the age group of teens and onwards. When you ask anyone, they will all tell you they are in favour of equal rights for homosexuals. Then you get to gay marriage, and that is when all the talk about equality stops. O’Brien started off with a strong point saying she didn’t ever choose to be straight, it was never about choice and that is just who she is.…

In the bigger Australian cities such as Melbourne or Sydney people would have to try some of the sweets to know the taste and finally to convince whether they should buy it or not. Australians originally have preference in the confectionery products made by Australian companies. That would be a…

health and explain the foundation of this health issue as well as drawing upon reliable evidence to support this. The article being analysed is “Once-popular party drug ketamine now used to treat severe depression” 3rd February 2016 in ‘The Age’ Melbourne Newspaper. This article discusses the mental health issue of depression, and how it has recently been discovered that ketamine can be used to help treat the symptoms of depression. The social determinants of health (SDOH) are defined as,…

Dear family and friends! I want to thank you all for coming here and celebrating my beautiful mothers 50th birthday. I am happy to see all of you here today. I look around this room and I see no strangers. I see people who have been with us my whole life, and some who recently found my family and all have had a huge impact on our family. My sister said to me a couple of weeks ago: “I nominate you to do mums birthday speech.” I laughed. I figured I was chosen because I have the biggest mouth, so…

References: Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2009). 4250.0.55.001 - Perspectives on Education and Training: Social Inclusion (Socio-economic status within Australia). Retrieved 19th September, 2014 from http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4250.0.55.001Main+Features32009 Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2014). Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum. Retrieved September 17th, 2014 from:…

far more likely to promote terrorism than it is to reduce it” 1 however, he doesn’t name any of the academic studies nor who published them. Further into the essay he discusses an analysis by Jonathan Caverley of MIT and Jesse Dillon Savage of Melbourne University which “found that U.S. military training actually correlates with an increased chance that a military coup will occur in the recipient nation” 1 yet does not include any of the statistics behind the claim. Not being consistent with…

Appropriation in Art By Sophie Mitchell Some words that might be needed when understanding appropriation in art are convention, postmodern and appropriation. Appropriation means to take an image from the past and put in new context so that it changes it’s meaning. The meaning of convention is the rules and standards in art. Postmodern is new, different, experimental art that questions the conventions of art. Postmodern artist challenge the conventions of art by using different and unusual…