On June 13th, Melbourne woman Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered in Princes Park, Carlton. She was the 30th woman this year in Australia to have been murdered by a man. She was one of the few that did not know her attacker – which perhaps led to the increased (but justified) outrage.
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(Some of the) Things I have learnt from travelling around the world for the last two years
Two years ago, I finished my MBA, quit my job and left for a friend’s wedding in Ireland, via a month in Myanmar and a week in Sapa, Vietnam. Since then, I returned to Melbourne, found a job that allows me to travel, placed all my belongings into storage and headed off on an almost permanent journey. It has been a time of great enjoyment and freedom, but also, inevitably: loneliness, isolation and questioning. I think that my recent travels have changed me and, to an extent, changed the way that I look at life… so, I have been thinking: what are some of the things that have I learned from travelling for the last two years?
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