Alone In The Darkness, Seeing Perfectly A Path To Peace

During a school trip to the remote indigenous community of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory, the year 10 students of Mount Evelyn Christian School (pictured) took part in The Darkness Activity. On a moonless night, they headed from their camp and into the bush with a torch, a stool, a pen and a journal. A whistle blew and five minutes of darkness and quiet began. When another whistle sounded, torches came on and the students recorded their experience. This is Melissa Morgan's response:

A Toast To The Binge-drinking Zealots

BINGE drinking is sort of the new black these days, isn't it? Well, being against it is. K07 starts throwing money towards campaigns to wean baby-faced teens off fizzy peach-flavoured liquor sherbets and the next minute you know every man and his dog have decided to wave a flag denouncing problem drinking. If binge drinking existed in human form we'd be outside its house with burning torches demanding satisfaction. We're an adorably rabid lot, truly we are.