{"id":5581,"date":"2023-08-10T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&p=5581"},"modified":"2023-08-22T01:40:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T01:40:50","slug":"what-matters-competition-success","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/what-matters-competition-success\/","title":{"rendered":"What Matters? Competition Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by Gough Whitlam’s commitment to involving young people in shaping Australia’s future, the Whitlam Institute\u2019s prestigious What Matters?<\/em> writing competition invites students from years 5-12 to answer the simple question ‘what matters?’. Entrants are free to express their views on any matter they care about in a variety of forms. Fort Street had a number of students enter the competition this year. Out of nearly five thousand entrants from across 691 schools, three Fortians were shortlisted in the 2023 competition.<\/p>\n

In the 7\/8 category, Oliver Townsend<\/strong> was shortlisted for his exploration of mortality, \u2018Embrace the Light\u2019. \u00a0In the 9\/10 category, Eleanor Alonso Love\u2019<\/strong>s essay \u2018Text for Help\u2019, on the impacts of smartphone culture\u00a0also impressed the judges. Their pieces can be read here: https:\/\/www.whitlam.org\/what-matters-2023-shortlist<\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations to all these brilliant young writers.<\/p>\n

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Inspired by Gough Whitlam’s commitment to involving young people in shaping Australia’s future, the Whitlam Institute\u2019s prestigious What Matters? writing competition invites students from years 5-12 to answer the simple question ‘what matters?’. Entrants are free to express their views on any matter they care about in a variety of forms. Fort Street had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-5581","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}