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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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“British scholar Rabbi Jonathan Magonet once said: ‘We are defined as a society by how we treat the ones that don’t belong to us …”
“The racket pounded in my ears as I walked down the hall through the throng of shouting boys. Every now and then I would hear one stop …”
“Yellow sand, white curving waves and a cliff face that looks like a serene, monolithic profile staring out to sea. My grandmother used to linger at Queenscliff beach until her children begged to go home …”
“The room was small yet bright as the sunlight burst through the glass doors. Sentimental items placed carefully and delicately …”
“Running, panting, I search for my target — a playground, a board room, a lawn bowls tournament all await me. I am, of course …”
“I am not a scientist or a meteorologist. I do not have a PhD, and for that matter, I have never even been to university. I am 16 years old …”
“Amidst the calm and quiet of a warm October’s day, an old man sits silently in an ancient wicker chair on his front porch …”
“Thomas Jefferson once said;
Question with boldness even the existence of a …”
“It is a peculiar thing that convictions one has held for years can be destroyed by an act committed in the span of ten minutes. I suppose it is a function of our inherent malleability – a very human thing indeed …”
“You don’t really think of electricity as a sound needing to be heard. You wouldn’t think of it as bringing to life a static orchestra with one instrument at a time to echo throughout a home …”
“The hotel was like a giant oasis in the middle of a harsh, barren land. The lights that flickered on and off, shining through the curtains …”
“With every lethal gesture of my retractable pen, I itchingly anticipated the catastrophic click that would propel one of my precious classmates to their breaking point …”
“The Ford Falcon pulled up with a groan and cough. It sprayed bits of gravel in its wake and the tiny projectiles flaked with black dust …”
“George Graham Vest, a US Senator and lawyer, once said as a closing argument against the murderer of a dog, “The one absolutely …”
“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 …”
“You should meet the flowers in my garden and teach them how to be as pretty as you …”
“‘Tjitji,’ Kami calls, ‘Come, we must go now, leave her to rest. Her Kurunpa spirit is weak. Aunty will take care of her.’ I shoo away the dirty flies that feed on her sticky, sweaty skin. My legs tingle from having crouched for too long. The dusty wind carries the far-off scent of the eucalyptus tree and clears my head …”
“Wind whipped the surface of the sea, sending it into a churning, wild frenzy. It lashed at the shores, a rolling and booming mass …”
“BANDA ACEH: A 10-metre wave of unimaginable force tore through much of South-East Asia on Boxing Day 2004 …”
“After years of damaging our environment, we’re finally starting to realise that we have to change. It is time to rethink the way …”
“Jack pedalled slowly down Ryder Street, trying to be quiet, hoping she wouldn’t be there …”
“The bright flashing lights caught her eyes, startling her. Blinking, she slowly walked towards the dazzling wall of colour and sound …”
“I was eight, maybe twelve.
My dad lived there when we lived there, and he stayed
there when we left …”
“Once upon a time, in a land far less civilised than our own, there was this phenomenon called ‘childhood’ …”
“She loved this time of the morning. The few precious minutes between night and day, when somehow it was both at the one time …”
“Speaker: Stephanie Foster, President of the United States of Australasia. Good evening, honourable guests and fellow delegates …”
“The old man sat on the bench and watched the people walk by. If one were to ask him how he got there he would not be able to answer, for it was a mystery to him also. His mind had been daydreaming as he stepped out of his front gate and began his journey into the town …”
“The innocence of the apathetic,’ the words rang out among the silent mourners, ‘is a falsehood that we, who are lazy, tell ourselves …”
“The waves crashed on to the sand and ran up the beach before receding back into the thundering sea. The beach was empty …”
“The galaxy was indeed an amazing spectacle. Swirls of brilliant red, blue and gold, and clouds of dust and rocky debris that dreamily floated across the black realm. Somewhere, an electric motor whirred loudly, and a glass cylinder lift began to decelerate …”
“Evidence AL-21708
Item: Foolscap envelope containing (1) handwritten
document, (1) newspaper clipping, (1) tarnished device similar
to a pocket watch …”
“The day Saddam tries to die, Will has already written a hundred poems about his origami palms clenched into a fist, about that fist clenched around his own throat. There’s nothing poetic about the hole in the noose, but it’s everything around it that makes her feel like she’s drowning …”
“Climate change:
It began as a concept in my science class …”
“The deep sanguine of proud avarice bled from the limp national flag. It dripped behind the esteemed congregation of the American upper-class and press …”
“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. On the other hand you might argue that the world gets better in some other way, but you’re bound to come up against some contrarian …”
“I am fifteen years old and sitting on my bed with a sixteen-year- old boy. We’ve been together for three weeks, or so I’m told. I can’t figure out how I’ve arrived here. I may as well be a doll, or rather a thing without a face, a sack of something warm and wet …”
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