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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 BOOK
“‘What’s your favourite colour?’ I’ve always loved the colour blue. Not any old blue, mind you. But deep blue, dark blue …”
“I open the fridge and my drinks are gone and I think that it’s Sara or James, but they’re nowhere to be seen and I’m still sober …”
“He wished he had never answered the phone that day. He knew it was a ridiculous wish, because no matter how many times …”
“I dreamt of you, not long after we met. The specifics are lost, but the voices and faces wrapped solidly around my heart …”
“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 …”
“The first night in Ha Tien is unbearable. I’m sleeping on my back and trying not to move on the tiled ledge …”
“She lies silently, her eyes cast down. The pale pink rosebuds on the faded floral wallpaper stare down at her like a thousand …”
“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 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 …”
“The innocence of the apathetic,’ the words rang out among the silent mourners, ‘is a falsehood that we, who are lazy, tell ourselves …”
“Wailwan is probably a lot like any other country town with a population of about two and a half thousand. There’s a lot of dirt …”
“As they neared the Downsville pub, Sophie felt the others around her slowing, as though uncertain …”
“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 …”
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