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What Matters? Winner Announced!

Thalia Penninkilampi from Penrith High School has been announced as the overall winner of the 2010 What Matters? Competition. Thalia, who is in Year 10, received the award on Tuesday 22 June at a ceremony attended by Ms Thérèse Rein and Mrs Margaret Whitlam AO. As overall winner of the Whitlam Institute 2010 What Matters Competition she received $250.00, a trophy and a brand new laptop and software package from the competition sponsor Officeworks.

Read Thalia's winning entry (PDF, 71Kb)

Read all of the finalists entries


What Matters? Finalists Announced!

The Whitlam Institute is thrilled to announce that eight finalists in the 2010 What Matters? competition have been selected from a record number of over 2500 entries.


Time is running out to tell us What Matters!

Entries are open for the annual What Matters competition, which asks young people in Years 5 to 12 across NSW and the ACT to write 400 – 600 words about what matters to them.

Entries close Friday 30 April 2010. Entry forms are available to download here.

For more information, and to download the winning entries from previous years, please visit the What Matters page on our website.

Cash and other prizes will be awarded to the winner and runner up in each category, and every entrant will receive a certificate of participation.

What Matters? 2010 is proudly sponsored by Officeworks

For more information please call 02 9685 9187.


The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG Lecture footage now online

The Whitlam Institute and the University of Western Sydney School of Law were delighted to present a lecture on 25 February at Gilbert + Tobin's offices by The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG. The lecture 'International Law and Human Rights: Gough Whitlam’s transformative vision' is now available to watch online on the Whitlam Institute YouTube Channel.

Full text from the lecture is also available to download here.

The Whitlam Institute gratefully acknowledges the support of Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers

 


New Perspectives essay on the future of Australian schooling
Secondary schooling and the education revolution: Looking for means towards the end? authored by Professor Jack Keating from the University of Melbourne is the second essay in the Whitlam Institute's Perspectives series. The essay argues that a genuine education revolution cannot be achieved without structural reform of schooling in Australia.

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