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Thank you 2018!
As I brace for my last year of high school and the truly uncharted future that awaits after that, I’ve taken some time to reflect on what 2018 has brought! In 2018 I stepped up to senior high school, and I have had a chance to grow my leadership skills. Through leading school events, especially…Read More
My Video BYO Cutlery Wins Justice Literary Competition!
How often do you use plastic cutlery? This is not a question we often ask ourselves in our gleamingly convenient modern societies. I only began to ask myself this question in the last couple of years. And once I noticed, I couldn’t seem to unnotice. Lunch out with friends – plastic cutlery. Birthday party dinner – plastic cutlery.…Read More
Video: Humanity’s Changing Relationship with Death
Nothing in life is certain, but death. Or is it? With technology improving at an exponential rate, human-made afterlives may soon be within our reach. Through my comparative analysis of the Bible and the “Black Mirror” episode “San Junipero” at school – St Vincent’s – in my English class this term, I discovered much about…Read More
Reflection on 2017
In 2014, after my first year of high school, I published my “Looking back at Year 7” blog and unknowingly started a yearly tradition for myself. I have come to appreciate this little tradition because now I can go back and read them to remember the things that excited me and the challenges I faced…Read More
My Reflection on 2016
Happy 2017! The fireworks over Sydney Harbour last night were great. 2016 has drawn to a close, so with this in mind, I have taken the time again (as I blogged in 2014 and again in 2015) to look back on some highlights of my past year. My school St Vincent’s College has a yearly production,…Read More
Lionel Bowen Young Writers’ Award – My Poem: It Was A Gift
This week I had the honor of winning 1st place in the poetry section for the 2016 Lionel Bowen Young Writers’ Awards. It was a great night at the University of NSW. The award was given to me by Cr Tony Bowen (son of Deputy Australian Prime Minister Lionel Bowen) and Bill Conn (who nearly…Read More
Stavroula Mavrogeorgis, my Yiayia
5th November 1939 – 31st March 2016 Age 76 https://www.flickr.com/photos/evecogan/albums/72157667169060585/with/26368291271/ Ruby’s speech Yiayia’s life story by Eve Cogan Stavroula Mavrogeorgis was my grandmother and she inspires me still, every day. She is the kindest person I’ve known and what is even more amazing is she has had one on the hardest lives I’ve known. Today…Read More
Video: Interview with Alicia Fejer (Lish) and Eve Cogan on Canberra Radio ABC 666
Lish from 666 ABC Canberra asked me to tell my story. It has been a while since I have been on radio, so you can just imagine my excitement when I got an email from Sunday Brunch radio host in Canberra, Lish Fejer! List told me she was running a segment on the topic “black” and…Read More
Video: My story so far… Do you want to name our new Western Sydney Airport “David Warren”?
Change is in the air again! It has been 3 years since I started my petition to rename Canberra Airport in honour of David Warren, the inventor of the Black Box and air safety pioneer. It has been 3 years since the spark of inspiration burst into a flame when and I and almost 4,000 people…Read More
Australia: Let’s Figure Out what is going Wrong on our Roads
I want to reduce the number of car deaths on our roads. I have been thinking about this important idea for some time – mandatory Black Boxes in all new cars. How many times do you notice people honk other people at lights once they have turned green? Why can’t the driver see the green light…Read More