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Sun queens

Cassie keeps forgetting she’s driving stick. We are on the I-80, and Cassie has her foot on the clutch while I shift the gears, and there is a good chance we’ll stall at 120 miles an hour. The I-80 is a highway for tourists and poor people, because if you’ve really got somewhere to be then plane flights are cheaper than ever these days.

By Ellen Vickerman

Somewhere over the rainbow

The sentiment of sharing the same boat is optimistic, but it glosses over the impact of inequalities in the amount of money and time spent on learning – such as those between rural and urban and between public and private schools – as well as the influence that parents’ levels of education have.

By Ellen Rowley

Postcards from a liminal zone

Health professionals and educators have long appreciated the benefits of personalising and sharing experiences to allow people to work through what might be traumatic – to make sense of it, to understand it and to appreciate what really matters to them.

By Donna Pendergast, Stephen Dobson

Enter the internationalist

What we can do is to look back on the time of Whitlam for encouragement – especially young lawyers and young citizens. Seize the moment: carpe diem. He sure seized the moment. That’s why learning from him in my own life – I think all of us can learn to be more courageous. Where there is injustice, we should seek to right the wrongs. That is what Whitlam demonstrated. That we could do a lot as a democratic nation.

By Benjamin Huf, Michael Kirby

Why do you want to make things?

Graffiti artists are known to feel more certain about their identity after creating work; they become more receptive to other perspectives, activities and opportunities. They’re not as worried that these other behaviours will obscure their identity – an identity that is now stable and enduring

By Adelle Sefton-Rowston, Simon Moss, Birut Zemits, Tracy Woodroffe