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SENIOR COLLEGE News
Visiting Judge!
Last week, Judge Greg Koppenol
Bachelor of Laws (Hons) visited our newest
subject choice for Senior Students:
Legal Studies!
He was kind enough to devote his
lunch‐break to explaining various aspects
of the Legal System to students in Years 11
and 12. Judge Koppenol spoke with the
students about university courses, legal careers and he
outlined a number of famous cases that he had been
involved with. For example, he represented Queensland’s
interests in the groundbreaking Mabo case and pursues
justice before the High Court of Australia.
The students were inspired by his dedication to tough
sentences for offenders who violate other people’s
rights. We were all very honoured by his willingness to
help us with our understanding of Australian Law in
between sessions at the Maryborough Court House.
Judge Koppenol also raised a few eyebrows when he
spoke of the implications regarding Facebook posts, as
they are submissible in a court of law, as are text
messages, thus reminding us all to consider what we say
in cyber‐space.
Judge Koppenol was very impressed by the College and
the students he met and will return to the College when
his schedule permits.
FACTS ON FACEBOOK
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Interschool Chess Competition
Conner Duggan came in the top 5 recently. Last year
in Year 9 Conner finished ranked 532 in QLD out of
approximately 2500 high school players. Andrew
Fitzpatrick from Gardiner Chess, the tournaments
host commented, “Today has a much larger turnout
than last year’s tournaments with 72 players from 8
schools competing in the event. The schools came
from Hervey Bay, Maryborough and Gympie.” He
further commented “He watched some excellent
games today and the standard of play was very high.”
The competition is held each Term with the Term 3
winner competing in the QLD state finals in Brisbane.
It is open to primary and secondary students with
both competing together to learn and have fun.
Conner is looking forward to working with students
from Riverside to form the Riverside Rooks and take
on the schools from the district as a team rather
than individually. If you would like to learn and
compete in chess contact Conner and/or Mr Harvey.
Experience in playing chess is not essential, one
player in the tournament was instructed how to
play chess the night before the tournament, and
she managed to win 2 of her 7 games.
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