Studying a double degree has been a fantastic way to diversify my university experience. In particular, constantly adjusting to the different conventions and expectations of two QUT faculties has allowed me to develop into a more flexible and adaptable learner. However, I realise the intricacies of living this kind of double life may be unfamiliar to students who have studied exclusively in the Faculty of Law. With this in mind, I decided to compile a list for all my single-degree friends out there of some of the differences I’ve encountered in my first two years at university.

By Morgan Lynch

Politically charged and hotly debated, the idea of “diversity” divides the political left from the right and many friends from their enemies. As defined in the Oxford Dictionary, diversity is “a range of different things”. This vague and rather innocuous definition has sparked enormous unrest in recent years. I suggest that this unrest arises due to the blanket nature of the term.

Whenever we hear diversity, we think of inclusion in society, non-discrimination regardless of race or gender. Diversity should be everyone’s business, not necessarily a 24/7 9-5 workday, but it at least should be at the center of awareness of every individual out there, be it office workers, construction employees, university students or professors, to media, and even those who make our offices and our schools clean – the cleaners.

By Ausbert She

In 2017, Hua Hsu of The New Yorker cited ‘the year of diversity fatigue’, noting that diversity had become a ‘worn and misapplied term.’ Hsu described diversity’s arrival into America’s legal scene in the 1978 decision of University California v Blake—a case that struck down the applicability of quotas in university admission but upheld affirmative action—as being responsible for its ‘messy origins’ that ensured the term’s ‘vague and ahistorical’ application.

By Sonia Stone

The 15th of March 2019 has been a shocking day for the residents of Australia and New Zealand. Many Muslims left home for Christchurch mosques for prayer where a carefully planned mass shooting took place at lunchtime on that day. About 49 people have been reported dead while other 20 people have been found injured. This incident which happened in New Zealand, a peaceful nation, left the world in disbelief.

..I am a proud lesbian, and a proud law student interested in a legal career. I have never thought that those two things needed to be mutually exclusive…