Coffee and pastries for breakfast had never tasted so stimulating. Idea-hungry people flocked into the Powerhouse Museum last Friday morning for the first fastBREAK of the season, to stuff themselves smart with inspiration from other young creatives and entrepreneurs.

It’s amazing what paradise you can find in the most unexpected places…

Touted as Australia’s fastest growing music festival, Stereosonic boasted a stellar line up including old school nineties act, Chicane, Dutch sensation Fedde Le Grand and the highly anticipated Canadian rodent, Deadmau5.

It looks like I have settled back into my old life. It feels surreal to think that only twenty-one days ago I was returning home to Australia from the most exciting, educational and rewarding summer of my life. I had spent 10 weeks in Vanuatu with an organisation called Youth Challenge Australia (YCA). 


With the end of year looming, many high school and tertiary students will be looking for summer jobs with retail, hospitality, construction and manufacturing trades being the popular choices for those looking for some extra cash. While the jobs may be ‘casual’, research shows that these workers have a high risk of suffering a work-related injury.

By T. E. James
Social networking websites have perhaps taken the curiosity and the excitement out of reunions. Does that then mean school reunions are now redundant? Irrelevant? Not necessary? Surely people have more courage to approach others over the internet, where no one witnesses the shame of your friend request being rejected?