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It’s the rare high school subject where analysing grisly murders, domestic violence and high-profile sexual assault cases are explicitly encouraged.
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analysing → ’ → murders
Almost 11,000 students completed a three-hour legal studies exam on Monday, answering questions on the criminal justice system, international relations and human rights, as well as two topics of choice.
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students → complete → choice
It’s a subject where knowledge of current events, news, politics and law reform is crucial.
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knowledge → ’ → events
At a time when 60 per cent of Australians aged 18-24 have never flicked through a physical newspaper, legal studies bucks the trend, encouraging students to consume news at its source.
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studies → age → source
At Nagle College in Blacktown, legal studies teachers Diana Shean and Karen Vasarelli say each lesson begins with a discussion about the news.
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When phones ping with breaking news alerts during class, Shean encourages students to pick up their devices.
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Shean → ping → devices
“Kids have to have their fingertips on the news and on what’s happening constantly,” Shean said.
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Shean → have → news
It also means that no subject, be it rape, murder, or terrorism, is off limits.
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it → mean → limits
“The [topics] are controversial,” she said.
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“They’re confronting.
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Even if a person hasn’t had that experience, they become quite connected through their own emotions and how they perceive it.”
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they → have → it
In the exam on Monday, Nagle College students Ericka Brillo, Madhuri Somani and Harkirat Kaur leaned on their knowledge of the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins at Parliament House to answer a question about the effectiveness of courts at protecting human rights.
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students → lean → rights
For seven marks, Somani argued that Higgins primarily achieved justice through non-legal routes such as the media.
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Higgins → argue → media
“She had to advocate on her own for justice,” Somani said.
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Somani → have → justice
Shean said the subject can be eye-opening for students whose concepts of justice rarely align with the realities of the legal system.
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She noted a classroom discussion about the domestic violence murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children in Queensland in 2020.
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“My class were quite enraged that the police didn’t help when it was first identified that there was a problem …
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it → help → ?
Which was a good segue into being able to look at the reforms and the changes that the police have put in,” she said.
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she → look → that
She pointed to Sam Wood’s alleged strangulation of his wife, and his denial of bail.
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She → point → bail
“I kind of wish I had class with them now because then we could look at the Sam Wood case and see how it has evolved so much in terms of police reaction …
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it → wish → reaction
10 years ago, no, I’d say even two years ago, [his bail denial] wouldn’t have happened,” she said.
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she → say → ?
Brillo, who hopes to study speech pathology at university, said the study gets “ingrained in you”.
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“Whenever you see things happen, I always unconsciously link it back to the syllabus,” she said.
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she → see → syllabus
“I think it’s nifty, it broadens so much of your knowledge in a niche way.”
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