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When asked that undeniably necessary, but still dreaded question: what do you study? I’m always grateful that my seventeen year-old self had the foresight to pair Law with something a little less infamous, and maybe more conducive to polite small-talk: Languages. Hastily, I will mention that I study Law, before emphasising that I also study Languages , and that most of my week is spent trying to memorise Arabic verb conjugations (and definitely not traipsing through Leighton

Clearly something is wrong. Though we make up only 16% of the Australian workforce, individuals under the age of 24 make up a disproportionately high 25% of all requests for support to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), with over 44% of litigations made by the ombudsman concerning a youth employee [1] . While we may be used to a brief skimming over of our award, eba or contract when we get started with a new job, it can be easy to forget the hard-fought rights which employees, an