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This week governments will meet in London to consider how sport can contribute to advancing vital development goals. The 6th Commonwealth Sports Ministers Meeting will review how all types of games can address social and economic challenges and promote global public health. But why is sport so important for national development? According to Eva Maria, 21, a …

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This week governments will meet in London to consider how sport can contribute to advancing vital development goals. The 6th Commonwealth Sports Ministers Meeting will review how all types of games can address social and economic challenges and promote global public health. But why is sport so important for national development? According to Eva Maria, 21, a …

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The Australian Constitution is desperately outdated and sets the tone for discrimination and racism to be perpetrated under the law, says Francis Ventura, 22, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Melbourne. Australia is a modern, accepting and multicultural nation. Everybody accepts that, apart from an unfortunate few outside the moderate and fair thinking mainstream. A country’s Constitution …

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The Australian Constitution is desperately outdated and sets the tone for discrimination and racism to be perpetrated under the law, says Francis Ventura, 22, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Melbourne. Australia is a modern, accepting and multicultural nation. Everybody accepts that, apart from an unfortunate few outside the moderate and fair thinking mainstream. A country’s Constitution …

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Though Australia is ranked as the world’s 15th largest greenhouse gas emitter, it has the potential to influence global climate change. However, that influence will depend on how effectively solutions are implemented at home, argues Pak Yiu, 19, a journalism student from the city of Brisbane in Australia. Climate change has been evident in the …

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With soaring standards of living resulting in the need for higher incomes to sustain one’s way of life, much work has to be done by the youngsters in Singapore, says Aristle Tay, 18, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Singapore. Tay says youth need the virtue of fortitude. From where I sat on the edge of a …

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For 13 years, Anna Dwyer traveled the regional and most isolated areas, working with some of Queensland’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. She has become a role model for a new generation of Australian women, writes Steph Carter, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Australia. My first real brush with a policewoman is one I …

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For 13 years, Anna Dwyer travelled the most isolated areas of Queensland, working with some of the state’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. She has become a role model for a new generation of Australian women, writes Steph Carter, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Australia. My first real brush with a policewoman is one …

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