CAPTIVATING INSIGHTS FROM VOICES OF A GENERATION
Competitors from schools in the Hawthorn area gathered at Swinburne University on Friday 11 August to participate in the Voices of a Generation Competition , hosted by John Pesutto MP , Member for Hawthorn and Leader of the State Opposition .
It was a fantastic opportunity to hear the perspectives of young people on the topic ‘ How can people and technology work together to build a path to a better world ?’ Speeches encompassing the rise of artificial intelligence , possible solutions to food insecurity , the future of biotechnology and even teleportation captivated us with their unique insights .
Most rewarding , however , was receiving leadership advice from the judging panel of industry leaders , including John Pesutto , the founder of Bakers Delight , Leslie Gillespie OAM , the CEO of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry , Paul Guerra , the Vice Chancellor of Swinburne University , Professor Pascale Quester , journalist and Head of Communications at Melbourne Airport , Andrew Lund , and the Mayor of Boroondara , Cr Felicity Sinfield .
CHRISTOPHER O ’ CONNELL – YEAR 12
TOP LEFT : VOICES OF A GENERATION JUDGES . LEFT TO RIGHT , PAUL GUERRA , CR FELICITY SINFIELD , PROFESSOR PASQUALE QUESTER , LESLEY GILLESPIE OAM , JOHN PESUTTO MP , ANDREW LUND .
FRESH MILK FOR THE SCOTCH BOARDERS OF 1859 ?
Now that ’ s the type of newspaper advertisement you don ’ t see every day , but it did appear on page eight of the Melboune Argus on 23 June 1859 . The Argus was a Melbourne newspaper which was published from 1848 to 1957 . Scotch ’ s Archivist , Paul Mishura found the advertisement while searching Trove for details of a Scotch boy of the 1850s .
In June 1859 , Scotch was less than eight years old , and by now it was located on a two-acre ( one hectare ) site on the corner of
FROM THE ARGUS , 23 JUNE 1959
Lansdowne and Grey Streets , East Melbourne . Just four years earlier , in 1855 , came the earliest published reference to the school as ‘ Scotch College ’, in The Argus of 19 September 1855 . It had opened on 6 October 1851 as ‘ The Melbourne Academy ’.
In 1859 , Alexander Morrison was Scotch ’ s Principal – its second Principal after Robert Lawson . Morrison ’ s tenure as Principal stretched from 1857 to his death in 1903 . In September 1859 , in faraway Turriff , Aberdeenshire , Scotland , Scotch ’ s third Principal , William Still Littlejohn was born . He was to succed Morrison on 1 January 1904 .
But back to that 1859 advertisement for a cow . No reference to it appears in Scotch ’ s records . When and if it was delivered to Scotch at Eastern Hill , what was its purpose , and where would it have been pastured ? The Argus advertisement indicated its role was to provide milk , but for whom ? The assumption has to be that it was to provide fresh milk for the boarders , because Scotch had welcomed boarders from its very first day , and many of them would have been from the bush , and used to milking cows .
This intriguing advertisement poses many more questions than it answers ! www . scotch . vic . edu . au Great Scot 43