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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.
Showing essays sorted by SCHOOL
Annesley College, SA
“It starts with anger. You wake up already seething with resentment at the day because you know you're going to have to struggle …”
Applecross Senior High School, WA
“It was 1987 when I first stepped into that garden. The sun skittered off the concrete that had once been painted white, but was now …”
Balwyn High School, VIC
“A young girl sits at the window of her room. Inside, the airconditioner is using power, making the room have a comfortable, almost cold, …”
Bendigo Senior Secondary College, VIC
“‘Life is a journey, not a destination’ is a quote pulled from the lyrics ‘Amazing’ by Steven Tyler, ‘the demon of screaming …”
Braemar College, VIC
“The waves crashed on to the sand and ran up the beach before receding back into the thundering sea. The beach was empty …”
Braybrook College, VIC
“Tape?
Check.
We can’t run out of tape now, can we? That would not be
splendid. Not at all. Thank God he always kept some around …”
Brisbane Girls Grammar School, QLD
“One morning, in the pale early winter, a man enters the train station. He moves in a strange pattern — all hands and knees and torso …”
Brisbane Grammar School, QLD
“After decades of abusing human rights, China’s tyranny continues uninhibited. Does no-one dare offend the economic …”
“Something is beeping.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard and thank you for
flying with us. …”
Buckley Park College, VIC
“It had happened so quickly and yet so slowly, all at the same time …”
Calvary Christian College, QLD
“You should meet the flowers in my garden and teach them how to be as pretty as you …”
Canberra College, ACT
“Earlier, he had stood outside the iron gates that stretched to the sky. It was cold and he wrapped his arms around himself …”
Canberra Girls’ Grammar School, ACT
“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 …”
Carey Baptist Grammar School, Kew, VIC
“Today, we seem to be living in the age of the apocalypse. Shrugging away Climate Change, with its grim imagery of the bleached bones …”
Casuarina Senior College, NT
“The lines of fact and fiction are often blurred. The side of cold unchangeable facts often collide with a place of pink elephants …”
Catherine McAuley High School, NSW
“They stand in the shadows and watch. They are the invisible poets, the hidden prophets. From their minds to other’s mouths, they listen …”
Catholic College Bendigo, VIC
“Thomas Jefferson once said;
Question with boldness even the existence of a …”
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