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Future Leaders is a national Initiative about leadership and the future of Australia. It seeks to involve, inform and inspire young people.
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Essays by young writers.
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“So I am late to school yet again.
I am a 17-year-old adolescent boy and I crave and love …”
“Each evening that autumn, she would drag out her rickety easel and sit cross-legged before it on the pier as she waited for the sun to disappear …”
“After years of damaging our environment, we’re finally starting to realise that we have to change. It is time to rethink the way …”
“He wished he had never answered the phone that day. He knew it was a ridiculous wish, because no matter how many times …”
“She asked me one day, perched on my knee. Little cellophane child — translucent and transient …”
“Is Australia truly ready to become a toxic nation? Is it ready to plummet into the dangers and insecurity of nuclear energy? …”
“The northerly gale shrieks past the high barbed-wire fences of Kolyma and collects dirt and snow, scattering loose earth into the sunken eyes of the slaving men …”
“There’s something about looking at life through a camera – it’s as if it’s not real, just moving in and out through frames while you stand …”
“He turned the corner, away from the hustle of the main street into his quiet home strip. He exhaled and continued down the lane …”
“‘Life is a journey, not a destination’ is a quote pulled from the lyrics ‘Amazing’ by Steven Tyler, ‘the demon of screaming …”
“She loved this time of the morning. The few precious minutes between night and day, when somehow it was both at the one time …”
“His face was a maelstrom of angles. All sharp peaks and troughs. Even his name carried the metallic splice of a blade …”
“When it comes to technology, it seems like you can draw up a definite schema of progress across history as a whole, and no-one will disagree with you …”
“Civilisation erodes due to the reason that it is unable to comprehend itself. Wars break out, a Holocaust occurs …”
“Greenhouse or global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth’s temperature caused by certain gases in the atmosphere …”
“Racism has preserved Australia’s proud white heritage. Without the “cleaning” of Australia through the White Australia policy …”
“‘We’re going out tonight – get changed,’ said Cathy.
‘I didn’t bring anything to wear.’ …”
“The human experience is vast and varied; so often it feels as though we are each navigating dark, uncharted waters, that we are “far out to sea and alone”. But it is perhaps in Mrs Dalloway’s very admittance to this feeling, and in every character’s admittance to every feeling, that great literature then becomes the lighthouse. …”
“The three of them sat together as the dusk settled softly around them. Sam shifted on his cardboard as he listened to Bob and Mindy …”
“She lies silently, her eyes cast down. The pale pink rosebuds on the faded floral wallpaper stare down at her like a thousand …”
“Voltaire stared at the world around her. Tall, flashy buildings stood everywhere, perilously close to each other; their heads in the clouds …”
“How many of you dream of having a perfect tan? What are you willing to risk in order to obtain this bronzed appearance? …”
“The issue of whether people should be allowed to use technology to choose their baby’s sex is hotly debated in the 21st century …”
“Dear Sister Mars,
When the tough gets going, the going gets tough. I’ve
been feeling ill …”
“For better, for worse, in sickness and health, until death do us part. How could I ever have known that a wedding vow is as beautiful …”
“He was a television with only one channel; a rainbow with a single hue; a lifetime lived for the love of her, and her alone …”
“It was still early, not even the guards had come to deliver the morning rounds as I unsteadily climbed out of bed and over to my small …”
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