2013 What Matters? Competition YEARRUNNER UP James Nash, Coonabarabran High School Battle on the Home Front Some of my earliest and happiest memories are of my Dad and me. He was always full of life and

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2013 What Matters? Competition YEAR 9/10 RUNNER UP Eleanor Boxall, St Catherine’s School, Waverley Carlo’s Story I once met a man named Carlo. He was an ordinary man, but nevertheless, he was a man with a

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• Poverty
• Socioeconomics
• Sociology
• Personal life
• Busking
• Homelessness
• Humanitarian aid

2013 What Matters? Competition YEAR 5/6 RUNNER UP Georgia Deen, Minnamurra Public School Living Life As I climb up the ladder, my heart feels like it’s beating at 100 miles an hour. It feels like it could pop

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• Singles
• Over

2014 What Matters? Competition YEARCATEGORY WINNER Raina Joseph, Girraween High School Asking For It “Just a trim please”, Alison says to the young hairdresser, smiling. The hairdresser begins working immediat

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• Crime
• Gender-based violence
• Behavior
• Abuse
• Criminology
• Rape culture
• Laws regarding rape
• Victim blaming
• Sexual assault
• Rape
• Ethics
• Sex crimes

2013 What Matters? Competition YEAR 7/8 WINNER TASMANIA Anna Stocks, Clarence High School Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Words Will Still Hurt Me Growing up, along with many others, I was a victim of bullying.

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• Abuse
• Persecution
• Bullying
• Injustice
• Interpersonal conflict
• Behavioural sciences
• Harrisons
• Ethics
• Behavior
• Social psychology

2014 What Matters? Competition YEAR 9/10 WINNER TASMANIA Chelsea Burt, Cressy District High School I Care I care about many, many things, but when it comes down to it, I care most about the people I love. These people gi

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• 11:59
• Next Magazine
• Music industry

2014 What Matters? Competition YEAR 9/10 CATEGORY WINNER Dana Tribbia, North Sydney Girls High School What Matters? An Ordinary Answer You are ordinary. Though it may be difficult to see through the myriad of social cond

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• Social philosophy
• Evil
• Philosophy of religion

2014 What Matters? Competition YEAR 7/8 CATEGORY WINNER [name and school withheld] Give Australian Children Their Voice My name doesn’t matter, but what does matter is that I am a victim of child abuse. Until now, my r

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• Violence
• Child abuse
• Domestic violence
• Psychological abuse
• Behavior
• Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis
• Child sexual abuse
• Family therapy
• Abuse
• Ethics

2013 What Matters? Competition YEAR 9/10 WINNER Jumaana Abdu, James Ruse Agricultural High School Where Are The Children? An ABC foreign correspondent asked a young Syrian boy if he was scared of the air strikes constan

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• Literature
• Safe
• Vocal music
• Oral literature

2013 What Matters? Competition YEAR 7/8 WINNER Martha Reece, Hunter School of the Performing Arts Resurrection Project 2052 CE. I stare at the frog. The frog’s huge round eyes stare back at me. A tear wells up in my ey

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