Awards

Past results

2020 Results

The Society & Culture awards are awarded annually to students who have performed outstandingly in their overall HSC results or for their work in producing an exceptional Personal Interest Project (PIP).

The Awards Ceremonies are held in the Dixon Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

Results

Click the years below for HSC results and Student Distinctions

2019 Results

Top 10 Examination achievers

Top 10 Rank	Student name	School
Equal 1^st and the Professor Sol Encel Award	Muir McLennan	Arndell Anglican College, Oakville
Equal 1st and the Professor Sol Encel Award	Emma Gaston	Port Hacking High School
3rd	Sanjana Janardhan	Macarthur Girls High School
4th	Nidhi Nair	Macarthur Girls High School
5th	Lara Hather	Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus
6th	Paris Spennato	Emanuel School, Randwick
7th	Mariam Arsalah	Willoughby Girls High School
8th	Eun Sol – Josephine Lee	Willoughby Girls High School
9th	Tess Guo	Willoughby Girls High School
10th	Zahra Louise Kumarasinhe	Willoughby Girls High School

High Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2019

Award	Student name	School	PIP Title	PIP Description
High Distinction and the Dr Peg White Award	Annie Rose Touw	Pittwater High School	Empowering voices for change	An investigation in the effects of media representations on the social inclusion and exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
High Distinction	Ella-Rose Liasides	Georges River College, Oatley Senior Campus	The only fair is laissez-faire	An investigation into the repudiation of capitalism within the youth of western democracies.
High Distinction	Muir McLennan	Arndell Anglican College, Oakville	BOYS DON’T CRY	How the shackles of the patriarchy restrict masculine expression and hinder gender inclusivity. An investigation into the currently limited gendered terrain and a false sense of liberation.
High Distinction	Karen Yoshimura	Willoughby Girls High School	The sanitising of menstruation	An investigation into the social and cultural taboo of menstruation and its impact on gender identity in western society.
High Distinction	Georgia Topic	Willoughby Girls High School	The Perfect Political Persona	“Politicians are increasingly utilising social media as a campaigning platform, bypassing traditional media sources and hence, threatening democratic principles.”
High Distinction	Lily Rose Kitteringham	Caringbah High School	I am not a Feminist…..But	An inquiry into the ‘corruption” of feminism and if there is a need for a new title to continue purposeful discourse within the gender equality movement.
High Distinction	Mariam Arsalah	Willoughby Girls High School	Beyond the helpless victim	The misrepresentation of Afghan women in mainstream media has constructed harmful stereotypes that perpetuate exclusionary perceptions of an oppressed passive gender.
High Distinction	Mika Nakamura	Willoughby Girls High School	We are the future	Despite the stereotypes of youth’s shallow digital social and political engagement, young people are a highly socially and culturally aware generation.
High Distinction	Zahra Louise Kumarasinhe	Willoughby Girls High School	Climate crisis? What Climate Crisis?	Climate change action has been paralysed by political and social denialism fuelled by ignorance, apathy and misinformation.
High Distinction	Reid Quealy	Engadine High School	Saving the day, the ”gay” way!	An investigation into comic books’ capacity to act as a powerful conduit for change with regards to the acceptance and inclusion of the LGBTQI+ community
High Distinction	Scarlet Lennon	Central Coast Grammar	Eat. Sleep. Gender binary. Repeat.	An investigation into …Feminism’s attempt to deconstruct the gender binary and norms of the domestic sphere.
High Distinction	Marni Taylor	Engadine High School	Appropriation and misuse of indigenous art	An investigation into how the appropriation and misuse of indigenous art affects the inclusion of Aboriginal peoples identity and culture in Australian society.

Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2019 13 awarded from over 4700 candidates

Award	Student name	School	PIP Title	PIP Description
Distinction	Bianca Marie Salis	Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney	Purchasing femininity	An investigation onto how gender and femininity have been commodified over time and the extent in which this commodification is exploitative or empowering for women.
Distinction	Anna Suzuki	Willoughby Girls High School	Between stereotypes: feminist Christians	An investigation into the origins of the perception of mutual incompatibility between the Feminists and Christian philosophy.
Distinction	Sarah Amis	Emmaus Catholic College	If it bleeds, it leads.	An investigation into the changing nature of news and its power in shaping peoples perception of the world.
Distinction	Ava Riddell	Corpus Christi Catholic High School, Oak Flats	Like and share this PIP if you care	A report exploring the success of online activism initiatives in achieving measurable social change.
Distinction	Lana Beizan	St Narsai Assyrian Christian College	BLAXploitation	An in-depth investigation into the driving forces liable for the unjust societal privileges groups and individuals acquire through the context of race.
Distinction	Wahida Yaqubi	Arthur Phillip High School	The succumbing dynamics of survival	The influence of Afghanistan’s cultural complexities on the entitlements of Afghan females through the lens of bachas posh versus the assumed liberations of Australian – Afghan females.
Distinction	Maria Victoria Ciccone	Willoughby Girls High School	Argentine Feminazis	The criticism of Argentina’s radical feminist movement is indicative of the contested nature of feminist ideology.
Distinction	Nidhi Nair	Macarthur Girls High School	Where’s our ”fair shake of the sauce bottle”	An intergenerational investigation into the perceived Australian political archetype and culture of apathy.
Distinction	Emma Gaston	Port Hacking High School	I am the white saviour	An investigation into the intergenerational normalisation of voluntourism by westernised individuals and the sustained impact on host-communities society and culture
Distinction	Marlie Howley	St Scholastica’s College, Glebe	Surfing’s gender order	An investigation into how and why gendered identities are constructed and deconstructed within the subculture of surfing
Distinction	Cassandra Song	Willoughby Girls High School	All the eyes we cannot see…….	Invasive technologies and the rise of surveillance capitalism pose a threat to democracy
Distinction	Eliana Digby	Willoughby Girls High School	huMANkind	Gendered language perpetuates social exclusion and narrow identities for women at the micro, meso and macro level of society.
Distinction	Jasmine Angela Xuan Arndt	Cheltenham Girls High School	Assimilation or alienation	An investigation of the perception of the assimilation of Chinese immigrants and the impact of intercultural relationships on one ‘s sense of social inclusion within Australia

2018 Results

Top 10 Examination achievers

Rank	Student	School
1	Zoe Mitchell Receives Professor Sol Encel Award	Central Coast Grammar School
2	Chrysanthi Diasinos	Blakehurst High School
3	Marko Beocanin	Normanhurst Boys High School
4	Tieki Woonton	Kariong Mountains High School
5	Elena Khoury	Central Coast Grammar School
6	Isabella Katsiris	Menai High School
7	Emelia Corlett	Central Coast Grammar School
Equal 8	Keziah Ariella Hendra	Glenwood High School
Equal 8	Lucinda Nadine Leten	Mulwaree High School
Equal 10	Chelsey-Lee Ortega	Clancy Catholic College
Equal 10	Zane Mestousis	Marsden High School

High Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2018

Student	School	PIP Title
Jackson Smith	Engadine HS	‘Grab em’ by the balls’
Aurelia Winzenberg	Willoughby GHS	The Class Ceiling
Isabel Carter	Willoughby GHS	Tourism on the boarder of authenticity
Holly Braico	Willoughby GHS	Killing Me Softly
Samruddhi Kamane	Moorebank HS	Bleach it Don’t Preach it
Helen Kalou Peg White award recipient	Westfields Sports HS	Racism is just a Pigment of your imagination
Jordyn Hicks	Willoughby GHS	Government and Indigenous Australians
Isabella Katsiris	Menai HS	Like a girl
Karera Layla Aoki	Willoughby GHS	The Yaoi Mystique
Kathryn Victoria Jarrett Keane	Macarthur Anglican School Cobbitty	Oh My COD! Racism Remastered
Chelsey-Lee Ortega	Clancy Catholic College	One Small step For Woman, One Giant Leap for Mankind
Isobel Rose Carr	Lambton HS	Damsels in Democratic Distress
Kasturi PK Kunalan	North Sydney GHS	Handcuffed
Max Goring	Central Coast Grammar	AKRASIA

Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2018

Student	School	PIP Title
Vivien Janitz	Willoughby GHS	Us vs Them
Isabella Cavanagh	Willoughby GHS	For those who have come across the seas
Isabelle Robertson	Turramurra HS	Green is the new black ?
Josephine Maltese	Willoughby GHS	Western Media constructions of Asian ethnic identities
Alexandra Crowhurst	Willoughby GHS	Rapping Up Rap
Rahni Stuart-Crone	Lambton HS	Surname: To change or not to change? That is the question.
Brooke Harris	Clancy Catholic College	It’s Good to be Bad!
Harrison John Inshaw	Castle Hill HS	AFL and Indigenous Australians
Mona Anne Ryan	Elizabeth Macarthur HS	It does matter if you are black or white
Chrysanthi Diasinos	Blakehurst HS	Cultural preservation in a post-genocide Diaspora
Aleisha Hyslop	Willoughby GHS	The Toxic Workplace

2017 Results

Results in the Society and Culture HSC Examination 2017

Rank	Student	School
1st	Ronahi Demirbag The Professor Sol Encel Prize	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus
2nd	Alexis Jade Tram	Elizabeth Macarthur HS
3rd	Renee Ellen Preketes-Tardiani	Crestwood HS
4th	Eva Sikes-Gerogiannis	Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus
Equal 5th	Neilab Osman	Riverside GHS
Equal 5th	Jenna Sihyun Yim	Hornsby GHS
7th	Jessica Patterson	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus
8th	Annie Martin	Willoughby GHS
9th	Rizina Yadav	Merewether High School
10th	Sasha Nielsen	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus

High Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2017

Name	School	PIP Title
Fatma Mawassi The Dr Peg White Prize	Burwood Girls’ High School	Finding the I in Islam
Hanan Kamal	Macarthur Girls’ High School	Mask on or mask off
Rizina Yadav	Merewether High School	Populism: The worst deal ever
Grace Everett	Engadine High School	Can all male students please stand now to take the oath.
Mia Yoneda	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Contesting heteronormativity in Japanese culture
Mikaela Jenkinson	Willoughby Girls’ High School	All aboard the mateship
Ronahi Demirbag	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus	Homeless even at home
Ruby Hamersley	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Take the red pill
Phoebe Wilson	Hunter School of Performing Arts	The childfree choice of women
Sophia Kovac	Thomas Hassall Anglican College	Raising a fist … the same height high
Akram Qashou	Penrith High School	The refugee in the room

Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2017

Name	School	PIP Title
Isabella Salvo	Central Coast Grammar School	Strong is the new skinny
Ruby Rose Hansen-Tarrant	St Philip’s Christian College, Port Stephens	Living beneath the cracks
Hannah Sterling	Central Coast Grammar School	The superficiality of success
Grace Elizabeth Baxter	Maitland Grossman High School	Oppressed by the West
Neilab Osman	Riverside Girls’ High School	The other speaks
Alice-Rose Lucchetti	Willoughby Girls’ High School	No offence, but…..
Eva Sikes-Gerogiannis	Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus	Freaks and Greeks
Sophia He	Hornsby Girls’ High School	No news is good news
Holly Frances Yare	Merewether High School	“Halal snackpacks fund terrorism”
Aimee Ball	Central Coast Grammar	Boys will be boys
Alexandrine Sarah Curtis	Springwood High School	Pioneering the virtual queer frontier
Annie Martin	Willoughby Girls’ High School	The extreme sensation of being sensationally extreme

2016 Results

Results in the Society and Culture HSC Examination 2016

Rank	Student	School
1st	Helaine Liew The Professor Sol Encel Prize	Willoughby Girls’ High School
2nd	Seda Hamoud	Liverpool Girls’ High School
Equal 3rd	Madeleine Bosler	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus
Equal 3rd	Ellen Ly	Westfield Sports High School
5th	Clarissa Zurlo	St Scholastica’s College
6th	Tara Maureen Arrow	Murfield High School
7th	Tutti Valerie Copping	Turramurra High School
Equal 8th	Craig MacKenzie	Rose Bay Secondary College
Equal 8th	Elena Pavlou-Watt	Merewether High School
Equal 8th	Hannah May Spinks	Castle Hill High School

High Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2016

Name	School	PIP Title
Sophie Totonjian The Dr Peg White Award	Central Coast Grammar	The impact of western education on Indigenous Australians development of self- efficacy
Gloria Nasr	Castle Hill High School	investigation into the changing nature of protesting through the rise of virtual activism
Lauren Tillman	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Political A-Gender
Louise Press	Gymea Technology High School	Stand; speak; type; act
Adelaide Bragias	Merewether High School	In gov. we trust
Fatima Olumee	Moorebank High School	One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Seda Hamoud	Liverpool Girls’ High School	Survival in the digital eco system
Jiyeong Park	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Feminism in Australia and Korea
Jessica Wilson	Wadalba Community School	The rage for raunch
Prudence Wilkins-Wheat	Menai High School	The F word
Lauren Lai	Willoughby Girls’ High School	It’s just not black and white
Nicolette Seroukas	Willoughby Girls’ High School	You have the right to remain polarised

Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2016

Name	School	PIP Title
Helaine Liew	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Voluntourism
Han Joo Ahn	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Digital democracy
Ruxi Geng	Albury High School	Behind the proverbial glasses
Josephine Duncan- Nagy	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Drawing the line
Daniel Watts	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus	Hook, Line and Sinker
Saranda Sokolaj	Macarthur Girls’ High School	A Home away from home
Chiara Lam	Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus	The changing game
Coen Ayres	Dulwich High School	Weapons of mass distortion
Fariha Ahmad	Glenwood High School	Secularisation on trial
Kristina O’Brien	Hunter Valley Grammar	The great commission or the great omission
Cassandra Malouf	Gosford High School	Educating the educators
Vijeta Venkatesh Prasad	Nagle College, Blacktown	Power placement, hero or side kick
Madeleine Bosler	Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus	Pleasure censure
Lisa Ngo	North Sydney Girls’ High School	Saigoing, going, gone

2015 Results

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2014 Results

The awards ceremony for the top ten exam results and High Distinction PIPs for the 2014 HSC will be held in the Metcalfe Auditorium at the State Library.

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HSC 2014: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	Surname	School
1 & the Prof. Sol Encel Award	Imogen	D’Souza	Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus
2	Ann	Wen	North Sydney Girls High School
3	Imogen	Learmonth	Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus
4	Cathy	Fei	Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus
5	Gabriella	Vumbaca	Gosford High School
Equal 6	Justine	Amin	St Marys Senior High School
Equal 6	Aqsa	Shahid	Macarthur Girls High School
8	Alexandra	Neave	Engadine High School
9	Jamaica	Eisner	Willoughby Girls High School
10	Liliana	Tai	North Sydney Girls High School

HSC in Society and Culture 2014 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects

Category	Name	Surname	School	Project Title
High Distinction & the Dr. Margaret White Award	Boi Quyen	Ly	Fairvale High School	When language dies
High Distinction	Lauren	Moore	Willoughby Girls High School	Violence anaesthesia
High Distinction	Alexandra	Neave	Engadine High School	Can social justice be more than just another brick in the wall?
High Distinction	Viktoriya	Gerova	North Sydney Girls High School	Seeing Red
High Distinction	Aqsa	Shahid	Macarthur Girls High School	Muslim and Western: Living a life of contradiction
High Distinction	Elena	Monakhova	Glenaeon School	Tiger Cubs
High Distinction	Vanessa	Anthony	North Sydney Girls High School	Blitzkrieg Pop
High Distinction	Gillian	Battese	Willoughby Girls High School	Blurred Lines: Entertainment or Exploitation?
Distinction	Kaitlin	Hill	Lucas Heights Community School	Hop on Pop
Distinction	Ananya	Singh	Fairvale High School	But first let me take a selfie
Distinction	Melanie	Raymond	St Marys Senior High School	When History Matters
Distinction	Rebecca	Coorey	All Saints Senior College Casula	Media of Leb Destruction
Distinction	Courtney	Kwak	All Saints Senior College Casula	Mass Media killed the Political Star
Distinction	Karrie	Benz	Penrith High School	Steaks and Cakes
Distinction	Emily	Draper	Leumeah High School	Lets Play: Sexism in video games and the community
Distinction	Jasleen	Chew	North Sydney Girls High School	Be a Man
Distinction	Tiarnne	Brown	Magdalene Catholic High School	Can you see the Blind Side
Distinction	Jarrett	Spice	Patrician Brothers Blacktown	I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet

2013 Results

The awards ceremony for the top ten exam results and High Distinction PIPs for the 2013 HSC will be held in the Metcalfe Auditorium at the State Library.

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HSC 2013: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	Surname	School
1 (Equal) and the Sol Encel Prize	Aparna	Balakumar	Hornsby Girls High School
1 (Equal) and the Sol Encel Prize	Alessandra	Bianco	Freeman Catholic College
3	Rachel	Djoeandy	Caringbah High School
4	Madelyn	Smith	St Marys Senior High School
5 (Equal)	Jemma	Cavanagh	North Sydney Girls High School
5 (Equal)	Peggy	Wei	North Sydney Girls High School
7	Brigitte	Samaha	North Sydney Girls High School
8	Christian	Whitfield	Central Coast Grammar School
9	Alana	Bourke	Hunters Hill High School
10	Imogen	Frost	Willoughby Girls High School

HSC in Society and Culture 2013 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects

Category	Name	Surname	School	Project Title
High Distinction	Rose	Hartley	Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College	Racism: It’s not a Black and White Issue: A study into the unconscious prejudice embedded within Australia’s ‘egalitarian’ society that accepts Aboriginal identity
High Distinction	Katie	Yung	Willoughby Girls High School	Hetero(normal)tivity: Heteronormative practices in the mass media
High Distinction and the Margaret White Award	Salima	Yunespour	Macarthur Girls High School	‘Go and do some homework then get back in the kitchen!’ The contradiction of the new educational landscape for Afghan girls and traditional gender roles in the Afghan-Australian diaspora
High Distinction	Dominic	Pham	Macquarie Fields High School	Migrating Away: Exploring the Changes in Collective Culture within a Western host country
High Distinction	Jessica	Weight	Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus	Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Does the Modern Woman Have it All? Has the role of the working woman changed since the feminist revival in the 1970s, and if so, how are societal pressures affecting modern day working women in globalised Australian society?
High Distinction	Amy	Johnston	Davidson High School	‘Seeing Ourselves Onscreen’An exploration of Australian National identity through Australian film
High Distinction	Christina	Knezevich	North Sydney Girls High School	Activism? An investigation into the changing nature of adolescent social activism and the extent to which interactive behaviours and decision making influence the outcomes of activism.
High Distinction	Wendy	Jiang	North Sydney Girls High School	A Work in Progress: An investigation into the combined effect of language maintenance and acculturation on the hybridisation of second generation Chinese Australians
High Distinction	Margery	Ai	North Sydney Girls High School	Eyes Wide Open: An Investigation into how and why Chinese Australian adolescents’ aspirations towards westernisation are expressed in particular stylised manifestations, and the impacts on the formation of Chinese identity
High Distinction	Emy	Yoneda	Willoughby Girls High School	Lost in Translation
Distinction	Abirami	Rajkumar	Hornsby Girls High School	Detention Seekers: An investigation into the differing experiences and outcomes of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in Australia
Distinction	Hanieya	Rehman	Macarthur Girls High School	A Woman of Few Words: A Study into the perceptions of Muslim Pakistani women on the status of women in Pakistan according to Islam and the influence of Islam on the factors that affect these perceptions.
Distinction	Amelia	Fist	Central Coast Grammar School	Society has got the curse: A study of how the evolving social construction of mensuration has directly and intimately affected women’s relationship with their gender identity and femininity
Distinction	Peggy	Wei	North Sydney Girls High School	Keep Calm and Gangnam Style: An Investigation into the impacts of the macro transcultural consumption of Kpop on the modification of micro Chinese Australian adolescent girls’ cultural identity
Distinction	Sindy	Tang	North Sydney Girls High School	Be the Change that You 4C: An Investigation into the macro and micro influences on higher-order decision making of Australian adolescents in regards to their interest and participation in social, political and environmental activism
Distinction	Erica	Goh	North Sydney Girls High School	Undressing The Kogyaru: An investigation into the influences the transculturation and subsequent internationalisation of the Kogyaru image have on the construction of Asian-Australian girls’ ideas of femininity and future development of gender identity.
Distinction	Alessandra	Bianco	Freeman Catholic College	Postcode Profiling 101: Does Your Address Define You?: An investigation into the extent to which a person’s quality of life, in terms of access to socially valued resources, is determined by their suburb.
Distinction	Hayley	McQualter	Merewether High School	Pretty in Pink? Not in my office! An investigation into how factors influencing how childhood agents of gender socialisation can determine gender roles in the workforce.
Distinction	Madelyn	Smith	St Marys Senior High School	I’m a Woman, Hear me Raunch: A sociocultural analysis of the raunch culture trend and it’s significance for feminism and gender equality in the 21st Century.

2012 Results

The awards ceremony for the top ten exam results and High Distinction PIPs for the 2012 HSC will be held in the Dixon Room at the State Library of NSW.

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HSC 2012: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	Surname	School
1 – The Sol Encel Prize	Emily	Freedman	Rose Bay Secondary College
2	Natalie Hei Man	Leung	North Sydney Girls High School
3	Ray	Moebes	Willoughby Girls High School
4	Anita	Bambridge	Barrenjoey High School
5	Sarah	Elmasri	Macarthur Girls High School
6	Olivia	Campbell	Chevalier College Bowral
7	Ruby	Leahy Gatfield	Burwood Girls High School
8	Alison	Woodward	North Sydney Girls High School
9	Elsa	Young	Hornsby Girls High School
10	Brittany	Ward	Engadine High School

HSC in Society and Culture 2012 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects

Category	Name	Surname	School	Project Title
High Distinction Peg White Award	Natalie Hei Man	Leung	North Sydney Girls High School	Holding Up Half the Sky? An Investigation into the Effects of Migration and Acculturation on the Gender Values of Chinese-Australian Women and Adolescent Girls
High Distinction	Emily	Taylor	Willoughby Girls High School	Why Grandpa Says Inappropriate Things: The Role of Age in Regards to Prejudice and Cultural Competency, and the Ability to be Culturally Tolerant
High Distinction	Sosan	Rahimi	Macarthur Girls High School	Se(xx)y Talk: An Investigation into the use of Gendered Language Within Afghan Media in the Portrayal of Women
High Distinction	Sarah	Elmasri	Macarthur Girls High School	Suppressed and Silenced: The 21st Century Representation of the Lebanese Muslim Female. An investigation in determining whether the hegemonic masculinity of Lebanese Muslim males has exacerbated the oppression of their female counterparts
High Distinction	Christina	Siswandi	Willoughby Girls High School	‘White Flight’ Leaves ‘Others’ Out of Sight: White Flight from Public Schooling is Discouraging Cultural Diversity in Rural Areas, also Reflected in Urban Areas, therefore not reflecting a Multicultural Australia
High Distinction	Ray	Moebes	Willoughby Girls High School	Write or Wrong: An Investigation into the Discursive Construction of Asylum Seekers in Australian Print Media
High Distinction	Tamara	Forward	Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College	In Retrospect: Is the Rapidity of Change in our 21st Century Lives the Reason for our Fascination with Retro?
High Distinction	Emily	Stratten	Wollongong HS of Performing Arts	“Who’s Afraid of the Leading Lady?” An exploration into how the changing roles of women in film reflect our changing society, from the 1950s to today.
High Distinction	Jessica Xinyao	Chen	Killara High School	From the Egg to the Phoenix: Understanding the Upbringing of Chinese Australians under Traditional Chinese Educational Values and its Impact on Australia
High Distinction	Danica	Zhan	North Sydney Girls High School	Window Shopping in the Department Store of the Exotic Other: An Investigation into the Fetishisation and Consequent Commodification of ‘exotic’ cultures by the West
Distinction	Anita	Bambridge	Barrenjoey High School	A Nation Half Empty, Now a Nation Half Full: The Australian Publics Changing Attitudes Towards Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Distinction	Lucinda	Matthews	Penrith High School	All the Way With Youth Today: The Political Interest of Australian Adolescents
Distinction	Amy	Rogers	Gosford High School	Disengagement to Engagement – Your Ticket is Number 1; Compassion
Distinction	Alison	Woodward	North Sydney Girls High School	‘That’s So Asian’: Racial Humour and the Internalisation of Race Amongst Chinese-Australian Adolescent Girls
Distinction	Tia	Soulakellis	Willoughby Girls High School	Can the Real Australia Please Stand Up: The Portrayal of Australian Identity by Media Tourism Campaigns are Cliched Fabrications That Represent Staged Authenticity
Distinction	Laura	Somers	Willoughby Girls High School	The Dehumanisation of Persons With Disabilities: An Investigation Into the Social and Cultural Exclusion of Persons With Disabilities Within Mainstream Australian Society
Distinction	Haruka	Metoki	Willoughby Girls High School	The Mystique of Multiculturalism: Whilst Multiculturalism is Theoretically a Positive and Cooperative Policy, in Practice Australian Migrants are Segregated and Isolated
Distinction	Tess	Vincent	Mossman High School	The Changing Nature of Protest Movements: The Occupy Movement
Distinction	Talieh	Modabber	Willoughby Girls High School	Born to an Identity: An Investigation of the Characteristic of Social Exclusion in Australian National Identity
Distinction	Sharon	Zhao	Willoughby Girls High School	“He said, she said”: The Gendered Language. The Differentiated Use of Language by Males and Females is more than just Linguistic Style; it is a construct of sex role stereotyping
Distinction	Ahmed	Malik	St Clair High School	All Eyez on Me: The Muslim Male Adolescent in a Post September 11 World: How does faith influence the identity of the Muslim adolescent male in the Western suburbs of Sydney?
Distinction	Daniela Jing Man	Kwan	Cheltenham Girls High School	PIP: Policy in Progress. A Study into Whether Multiculturalism in Australia is a Practical Reality of simply an Ideology, through the experiences of Chinese-Australians
Distinction	Elizabeth	Campbell	Mackillop Catholic College	The Boat Sails By, the Shore Remains: An exploration into the effect of the Khmer Rouge on Cambodia today
Distinction	Crystal	Yang	North Sydney Girls High School	K-Pop in the 21NEst Century: An investigation into the growth of the second Hallyu Wave and its influence on the identity of Asian-Australian adolescents
Distinction	Madeline	Harris	Kildare Catholic College	Grass Ceiling Effect: Have We Today Achieved a ‘Level Playing Field’ for Elite Female Athletes?
Distinction	Madon	Aaresh	Normanhurst Boys High School	We Wish Jews a Merry Easter and a Chinese New Year: A study on the adaptation of Festive Holidays in a Western Nation
Distinction	Ryley	Miller	Normanhurst Boys High School	A Grave Issue: An Examination of how Death Perception affects Society and its People

2011 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2011 HSC was held at 6.00PM on Friday 2nd March 2012, in the Dixon Room at the State Library of NSW.

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HSC 2011: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	Surname	School
1	Adeline Yuan Wing	Lee	North Sydney Girls High School
2	Taseen	Rahman	Normanhurst Boys High School
3	Natasha	Lennard	Hunter School of Performing Arts
4	Eden	Grimes	Caroline Chisholm College
5	Stephanie	McDonald	Willoughby Girls High School
6	Rebecca	Richardson	Penrith High School
7	Andre	Bosch	Macquarie Fields High School
8	Leanne	Ho	Penrith High School
9	Nicola	Scott	St Marys Senior High School
10	Saito	Leo	Normanhurst Boys High School

HSC in Society and Culture 2011 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects

Category	Name	Surname	School	Project Title
HD / Generational Prize	Adeline Yuan Wing	Lee	North Sydney Girls High School	Rise of the Tiger Cubs: an Investigation Into How and Why Chinese Immigrant Parents Have Continued To Practice Tiger Parenting in Australia
HD / Continuity & Change Prize	Ravneet	Deo	Wyndham College	Sikh Gender Roles
HD / Culture Prize	Patria	Manalili	St Andrews (Quakers Road)	Lost in Translation: An Investigation into the Impact of Native Language for Personal and Cultural Identity
HD / Gender Prize	Luke	Cooper	Lucas Heights Community School	Gaga vs Gillard: An Investigation into the Rise of Raunch Culture and the Demise of Female Political Identity
HD / The Sol Encel Prize	Athena	Blanksby	Engadine High School	Helping Me Helping You: Voluntourism – an Exploration of the Rising Phenomenon of Socially Conscious Travelling
HD / Technology Prize	Serena Chor Yin	Li	Willoughby Girls High School	Growing up Digital: Rise of the Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
HD / The Peg White Equality & Difference Prize	Jessy	Coulson	Marsden High School	On Your Marks, Get Set, STOP! You’re a Woman… The Media Maintains and Fuels Patriarchal Ideology in Sport
HD	Khaulah	Bachsinar	St Mary’s Senior High School	Unveiling the Truth A Socio-Cultural Study on How Australians Perceive the Islamic Headscarf
HD	Alexandra	Barclay	Asquith Girls High School	Quality Over Quantity: ‘Only Children’ in Society
HD	Melissa	Ellen	Wollongong HS of Performing Arts	Dissent to Disillusionment: The Changing Trends and Characteristics of Students Involved in Campus Activism, between Genders, from the 1960s to Today
HD	Janeia	Javillonar	St Marys Senior High School	Cultural Identity
Distinction	Evelyn Hoi Wan	Chan	Hornsby Girls High School	Inside the Collection Tin
Distinction	Veronica	Dunn	Freshwater Senior Campus	Brandalism
Distinction	Imman	Hafez	Birrong Girls High School	A Faith of Their Own
Distinction	Sophia	Hardy	North Sydney Girls High School	The Handmaid’s Tale: An Investigation into how the Idealisation of Motherhood as Constructed in the Macro World Impacts the Affirmation of Female Gender Role Identity and Consequent Decision Making
Distinction	Angela	Hung	St Mary’s Senior High School	The Alpha Male
Distinction	Katie	Mallett	Nagle College	The Beginning of a Bloody Tale: How Has the Social and Cultural Attitudes Towards Menstruation Changed and Stayed the Same Over Time?
Distinction	Angelica	Manlangit	Penrith High School	Women’s Rights, Worth the Fight? Analysing the true extent of social constructs in perpetuating female inequality
Distinction	Angelina	Smith	The Jannali High School	Why not my Language?
Distinction	Georgia	McCarthy	St Mary’s Senior High School	Stereotyping of Aboriginal People in the Media
Distinction	Stephanie	McDonald	Willoughby Girls High School	The Ethics Classes Provide a Meaningful Alternative to Scripture in NSW Primary Schools
Distinction	Ateeb Ali	Mirza	Kogarah High School	I’m Too Sexy For My Kurta: An Investigation of Masculinity in the Pakistani Community
Distinction	Rebecca	Richardson	Penrith High School	Going It Alone: The Changing Role of Single Parent Families Within Society
Distinction	Nicola	Scott	St Marys Senior High School	Reality Bites
Distinction	Felicity	Tindall	Keira High School	To Grow or Not to Grow, That is the Question: An Examination of the Social and Cultural Influences on Domestic Food Growing in Three Diverse Suburbs
Distinction	Cairena	Wells	Menai High School	Over 30 Years of Rocking the Boat in Australia

2010 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2010 HSC were held on Friday 25 February 2011 at the State Library of NSW.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	Surname	School
Eq 1	Melanie	Brierley	Willoughby Girls’ High School
Eq 1	Rachel	Leembruggen	St Mary’s Senior High School
3	Zoe	Hungerford	Gosford High School
4	Ruby	Wharton	Gosford High School
Eq 5	Tessa	Feggans	Caringbah High School
Eq 5	Brittany	Ferdinands	Domremy College
Eq 7	Felix	Donovan	Bulli High School
Eq 7	Rachell Shuang Lei	Li	Hornsby Girls’ High School
9	Philip	Kocovski	Penrith High School
10	Jing	Ye	Hornsby Girls’ High School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Name	Surname	School	Project Title
HD/Community Prize	Philip	Kocovski	Penrith High School	Macedonian-Australian: Explaining the Hyphen
HD/Generational Prize	Isabel	Cornes	Willoughby Girls’ High School	A Change in the Weather
HD/Reconciliation Prize	Eleonora	Horton	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Baa-Baa Black Sheep
HD/Gender Prize	Zoe	Hungerford	Gosford High School	Is that a Cape or and Apron?
HD/Personal Experience Prize	Harriet	Reid	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Veiled Hopes, Western Woes
HD/Popular Culture Prize	Brittany	Ferdinands	Domremy College	It’s a Disney World After All
HD/Society Prize	Melanie	Brierley	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Come Out and Play
HD/Equality & Difference Prize	Alexandra	Waldron	Merewether High School	Where You From? You Sporty Thing!
HD/Culture Prize	Shirley	Wang	Macarthur Girls’ High School	Confucius, Cultural Revolution and Capitalism
HD/Sol Encel Prize	Olivia	Nunn	William Clarke College	Weapons of Mass Consumption
HD/Continuity & Change Prize	Lucy	Sullivan	Cheltenham Girls’ High School	Whatever Floats your Boat
High Distinction	Sophie	Marshall	Santa Sabina College	Beyond the Paint: Graffiti’s Value in Contemporary Society
High Distinction	Hayden	Relf	Terrigal High School	The Artist as Citizen
High Distinction	Sarah	Humphrey	Willoughby Girls’ High School	The Gospel According to Disney
Distinction	Ellen	McPherson	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Can we be Heroes?
Distinction	Jessie	Meyers	Emmanuel School	Integrate or Disintegrate?
Distinction	Pamela	Buena	St Mary’s Senior High School	To be Older is to be Out of Order
Distinction	Laura	Sloane	Cheltenham Girls’ High School	Modernity: Try Before you Buy
Distinction	Angelina	Smith	The Jannali High School	Why not my Language?
Distinction	Bianca	Engmann	Willoughby Girls’ High School	The Gender of Words
Distinction	Elise	Buckley	Holy Spirit College Bellambi	Western Ideology vs. PNG Traditional Culture
Distinction	Esther	Henderson	Bellingen High School	Without Language, what hope is there for Culture?
Distinction	Avi Hiu Yee	Chan	Cheltenham Girls’ High School	Colour Blind Love: Changing Attitudes Towards Inter-racial Marriages in Australia
Distinction	Maya	Obirek	Wyndham College	Sex Sells: The Influence of Sexualised Advertising on the Social Norms of Today’s Adolescents
Distinction	Nicola	Coady	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Egotopia: Consumerism Refashioning Mind & Body
Distinction	Rebekah	Outteridge	Merewether High School	I Speak, Therefore I Am
Distinction	Haylee	Poppi	Gosford High School	All Hail the Indie-Vidual: The Paradox of the Alternative Music Subculture

2009 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2009 HSC were held on Friday 19 February 2010 in the Dixson Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	Surname	School
Eq 1	Lauren	Carmichael	St Andrew’s Cathedral School
Eq 1	Emma	Bowers	Killara High School
3	Allison	Grech	Freeman Catholic College
4	Danielle	Gay	Gosford High School
5	Dilan	Sellahewa	Baulkham Hills High School
6	Jemma	Cartland	Gosford High School
7	Lara	Munn	St Ursula’s College
8	Linda	Przhedetsky	Hornsby Girls’ High School
9	Jessica	Blain	Willoughby Girls’ High School
10	Racha	Dabliz	Macarthur Girls’ High School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Name	Surname	School	Project Title
The President’s Prize	Jessica	Blain	Willoughby Girls High School	Penetrating Australia’s Patriotism
Gender Studies Prize	Emma	Bowers	Killara High School	Nothing but blue sky
Belief Systems Prize	Josh	Pallas	Holy Spirit College Bellambi	Australia: Pontius Pilate or Prodigal Son of the Roman Catholic Church?
Reconcilliation Prize	Alison	Ryan	St Mary’s Senior High School	An analysis of the social significance of contemporary art
Continuity & Change Prize	Kerana Sadaf	Hakimi	Macarthur Girls’ High School	Afghan Girls Gone Wild
Personal Experience Prize	Alix	Pearce	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Through the porthole
Humanitarian Prize	Rebecca	Greenwood	Merewether High School	Madman, mercenary or missionary?
Community Prize	Matthew	Bamford	St Mary’s Cathedral School	Trouble in the burbs
Work & Leisure Prize	Benjamin	Cannon	Knox Grammar School	The Grass Ceiling
Popular Culture Prize	Emily	Smith	Gosford High School	Causes without a Rebel
Equality & Difference Prize	Bess	Rossiter	St Mary’s Senior High School	I’m not racist; I’m just funny
High Distinction	Melissa	Ong	Hornsby Girls High School	Tongue Tied
High Distinction	Kristin	Renzenbrink	Willoughby Girls High School	Censoring the Australian Way
High Distinction	Lauren	Carmichael	St Andrew’s Cathedral School	I am woman… hear me whisper
High Distinction	Angela	Bennett	Gosford High School	Giving up
High Distinction	Jemma	Cartland	Gosford High School	Deutschland: Über Alles
High Distinction	Stephanie	Mason	Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College	Is foreign aid perpetuating ‘race’?
Distinction	Benjamin	Strum	Emmanuel School	Victim to Victor: The Holocaust and Jewish Identity
Distinction	Rachel	Sandeman	Willoughby Girls’ High School	All Quiet on the Feminist Front
Distinction	Emily	O’Keefe	Hornsby Girls’ High School	Nursing a Prejudice
Distinction	Sarah	Marshall	Albury High School	No Pretentious Accent Mate
Distinction	Srishti	Shrestha	Penrith High School	Third Culture Kid: Living the best of both Worlds
Distinction	Hina Rashid	Khan	Hornsby Girls High School	I’m getting married?
Distinction	Prianca	Moodley	Lucas Heights Community School	Give me a home among the gum trees, with lots of… Visa E’s?
Distinction	Sarah	Gorji	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Retail Therapy
Distinction	Claire	Jewell	St Mary’s Senior High School	Understanding Y
Distinction	Sophia	Fowler	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Stop Press – the assault on journalism
Distinction	Marwa	Rahimi	Macarthur Girls’ High School	The Hyphenated Afghan
Distinction	Lara	Munn	St Ursula’s College	I am Woman hear me Raunch
Distinction	Chamitha	Weerasinghe	Hornsby Girls’ High School	Who Gives?
Distinction	Sophie	Newall	Willoughby Girls’ High School	Having a laugh with blondes, bleaches and barbies
Distinction	Bohdi	Connor	Hornsby Girls’ High School	Family First, but what next?
Distinction	Jaya	Keaney	North Sydney Girls’ High School	Lipsticks, Dykes and Viewing (Dis)pleasure
Distinction	Lucinda	Mowat	Hornsby Girls’ High School	The Generational Firewall
Distinction	Asher	Waxman	Emanuel School	You only live twice
Distinction	Chloe	Watson	Willoughby Girls’ High School	F.E.A.R – False Evidence Appearing Real
Distinction	Natalee	Davis	St Mary Star of the Sea College	A Muggles Guide to: Harry Potter and Society
Distinction	Kirsty	MacGregor	Camden High School	Till death us do part?
Distinction	Sujee	Kim	North Sydney Girls’ High School	Micro-Chip off the old block

2008 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2008 HSC were held on Friday 20 February 2009 in the Dixson Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name		School
Eq 1	Sorcha	McGee	St Marys Senior HIgh School
Eq 1	Daniel	Swain	Smith’s Hill High School
3	Emily	Reynolds	Gosford High School
4	Tamara	Al Hashemi	St Marys Senior High School
5	Mary	Go	All Saints Catholic Senior College
6	Samuel	Lewin	Merewether High School
7	Elizabeth	Penning	Domremy College
8	Stephanie	Lukins	Burwood Girls High School
Eq 9	Georgina	Girdler	Kooringal High School
Eq 9	Alexandra	Peters	North Sydney Girls High School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Name		School	Project Title
HD & The President’s Prize	Jessica	McDonell	Willoughby Girls High School	Torture-tainment
HD & Studies of Asia Prize	Jenny	Yu Xi Song	Hornsby Girls High School	Chinese Dundee: Racialisation and Chinese-Australian Identities
HD & Popular Culture Prize	Patrick	Girdler	Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus	Don’t Be Scared It’s Only Street Art: An Investigation into street art culture, its legality and its art
HD & Gender Studies Prize	Lauren	Oldfield	Lurnea High School	Look-Out Feminism: The Relationship between Aboriginal Women and Feminism
HD & Reconciliation Prize	Natalie	Keech	St Clare’s High School	‘What is the Ness?’ The Realization, Deconstruction and Re-Articulation of Whiteness
HD & Civics & Citizenship Prize	Alexandra	Peters	North Sydney Girls High School	Activism or Apathy? A cross-generational investigation into how and why student activism has changed over the last four decades.
HD & Equality and Difference Prize	Jemima	Stratton	Hornsby Girls High School	Open Wide, Come Inside … Australia: Play School as a Reflection of Wider Australian Society
HD & Belief Systems Prize	Catherine	Eggett	Hornsby Girls High School	How the Birredoow Found its Way: An Investigation into the Relevance of Dreamtime Stories for Modern Indigenous Youth
HD & Work & Leisure Prize	Carley	Rowland	Calrossy Anglican School	The Driving Force Behind the Driving Force: How, and to what Extent do Parents and Peers Impact on the Psychological Behaviour of Individuals Regarding Sports Performance
High Distinction	Emily	Reynolds	Gosford High School	Don’t Think Twice, it’s All Right: From Activism to Apathy. The Decline in the popularity of protest songs since the 1960s.
High Distinction	Amanda	Liu	All Saints Catholic Senior College	PIP Personal Interest Project or Pushy Immigrant Parents
High Distinction	Megan	Williams-Thompson	Hornsby Girls High School	The Australian One-Child Policy: Investigating the Significance of Socialisation Factors Unique to Only Children in Shaping Identity.
High Distinction	Hannah	Smyth	Willoughby Girls High School	Baa Baa Politically Correct Sheep: The Intent, Extent and Effect of Political Correctness in Children’s Media
Distinction	Lauren	Goodson	St Marys Senior High School	Local Political Participation: A Cross Cultural Comparison between Generations Within Local Political Participation
Distinction	Benita	Laylim	St Marys Senior High School	You Can’t Touch This
Distinction	Tamara	Al Hashemi	St Marys Senior High School	Extrapolating the Future of Politics: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Muslim Women and their Career Prospects in Contemporary Australian Politics
Distinction	Georgia	Murphy-Haste	Willoughby Girls High School	Chasing the Line: Freedom or Treason
Distinction	Razak	Akunyare	Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus	The Only African in the Village
Distinction	Barbara	Vallejos	Macarthur Girls High School	Influence of Machismo on the Formation of Gender Identity
Distinction	Laura	Cole	Elderslie High School	Explosive Reactions: Dying to Kill. A study into Female Suicide Bombers
Distinction	Claire	Herms	Hunter School of the Performing Arts	‘Low Tide’ an Exploration of Third Wave Feminism
Distinction	David	Wojtysiak	All Saints Catholic Senior College	Manipulation, Media and Muslims: How has xenophobia been heightened as a result of Media portrayal of Muslims in Australian Society?
Distinction	Rebecca	May	Hornsby Girls High School	Back Row, Centre: An exploration of the socialisation of tall women. A continuity or a change?
Distinction	Munna	Salekin	Macarthur Girls High School	Business Manager to Bus Driver: Status Depreciation Among Migrant Males from the Subcontinent – the Effects on Family and Identity

2007 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2007 HSC were held on Friday 22 February 2008 in the Dixson Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	School
1	Anna Gudkov	Hornsby Girls High School
2	Eugenia Baydikova	Hornsby Girls High School
3	Hilary Algert	Hornsby Girls High School
4	Vivianne Schwarz	Hornsby Girls High School
5	Leah Munk	Rose Bay Secondary College
6	Holly Lawson	Merewether High School
7	Daniela Cayetano	Kogarah High School
8	Michael Cox	Lucas Heights Community School
Eq 9	Ashleigh Bierton	St Marys Senior High School
Eq 9	Jessica Zeng	Chester Hill High School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Name	School	Project Title
HD & Civics and Citizenship Prize	Belinda Wong	Hornsby Girls High School	The “Reffo” Proof Fence.
HD & Reconciliation Prize	Ellen Collier	St Columba’s Springwood	Two Rivers, One Course.
HD & Studies of Asia Prize	Frances Chen	North Sydney Girls High School	Making a Splash in the Global Pool.
HD & Equality & Difference Prize	Catherine McPherson	Hornsby Girls High School	Growing Up Straight.
HD & Gender Studies Prize	Martene Gelle	Macarthur Girls High School	You Want Me to Do the Washing Up Too?
HD & Popular Culture Prize	Lara Mansfield	Merewether High School	I like My Beer Cold, My TV Loud and My Homosexuals Flaming.
HD & The President’s Prize	Louis Tintner	Blackwattle Bay Campus	The Big Issue
High Distinction	Eugenia Baydikova	Hornsby Girls High School	Lost in Translation.
High Distinction	Talia Hoffman	Emanuel School	Is Authority a Good Servant or a Poor Master?
High Distinction	Anna Gudkov	Hornsby Girls High School	Opening a Matrioshka Doll… Which One Am I?
Distinction	Miriam Sambell	Willoughby Girls High School	Health as a new religion.
Distinction	Michael Cox	Lucas Heights Community School	Poor Deluded Me.
Distinction	Angela Ryan	Temora High School	“O Brethren, Where Art Thou?”
Distinction	Joanna Lowry	Hornsby Girls High School	Stitches in Time.
Distinction	Vivianne Schwarz	Hornsby Girls High School	“Home Is Where the Heart Is”
Distinction	Sousan Ghecham	Kogarah High School	“Kiblah Crag”
Distinction	Susanna Chen	Cheltenham Girls High School	Australian Citizenship: Is It More Than Just a Ceremony?
Distinction	Amarlie Foster	Willoughby Girls High School	a/political playground.
Distinction	Nicole Paton	Bellingen High School	Vote 1: Fear.

2006 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2006 HSC were held on Friday 23 February 2007 in the Dixson Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Name	School
1	Camilla Townsend	Chevalier College
2	Angela Evans	Smithâ€™s Hill High School
3	Katie Boulton	Merewether High School
4	Clare Calderwood	St Marys Senior High School
5	Tennille Ferguson-Brown	Gosford High School
6	Amelia Goodson	St Marys Senior High School
7	Alanna Harper	Colo High School
8	Archana George	Hornsby Girls High School
9	Helen Dziedzic	Hornsby Girls High School
10	Cassandra Duncan	St Marys Senior High School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Name	School	Project Title – Click the links to read extracts from these meritorious PIPs
High Distinction & Civics and Citizenship Award	Kathleen Konkol	Manly Selective Campus	Save Lives: Recycle Yourself. A Study of Social Attitudes Towards Organ Donation
High Distinction & Reconciliation Award	Samuel Cook	Penrith High School	Losing Your Voice: The Loss Of Aboriginal Language
High Distinction & Studies of Asia Award	Amy Huynh	Smithâ€™s Hill High School	Banana Split
High Distinction & Equality & Difference Award	Miriam Gardiner	Tamworth Anglican	Education: The Great Divide
High Distinction & Gender Studies Award	Morgan Benson-Taylor	Rose Bay Secondary College	Watch Out Superman, Sheâ€™s Back!
High Distinction & Popular Culture Award	Angelana Dang	Macquarie Fields High School	Dolly See, Dolly Do: Examination of Popular Culture of â€˜Bratzâ€™ dolls â€“ their influences on a personâ€™s identity and the implications for society
High Distinction & Belief Systems Award	Jakob Campbell	Bellingen High School	Can Society Function Without Religion?
High Distinction & the Presidentâ€™s Award	Clare Calderwood	St Marys Senior High School	Climbing the ladder as fast as it grows
High Distinction	Ernie Lissa Capangpangan	Magdalene Catholic High School	Talk To The Hand
High Distinction	Katie Boulton	Merewether High School	Working At Retirement: An investigation into the social preparation for a successful withdrawal from work
High Distinction	Inna Sidorova	Rose Bay Secondary College	PIP-Nuptial
High Distinction	Dexter Atienza	St Marys Senior High School	A Socio-cultural analysis of the portrayal of Asian women in western films
High Distinction	Andrew Moon	Albury High School	At the end of the trail: The impact of the Kokoda Trail on the development of identity
High Distinction	But-Elle Hatooka	Rose Bay Secondary College	The Men of Tomorrow
High Distinction	Helen Dziedzic	Hornsby Girls High School	â€œJew-ishâ€- How does the uncovering of Jewish hereditary impact upon an individualâ€™s sense of self identity?
High Distinction	Emily Cheng	Hornsby Girls High School	Out of the frying pan and into the fire: The acculturation experience of Sudanese Refugees in NSW
Distinction	Kaitlin Tinker	North Sydney Girls High School	Hubby, Iâ€™m Home: Exploring the phenomenon of house husbands
Distinction	Amanda Ryan	Woonona High School	Teenage Lemmings: Conformity vs The Individual. A study of Conformity in Australia and Japan
Distinction	Adriana Amato	Great Lakes High School (Tuncurry Senior Campus)	Me, my phone and I
Distinction	Charlotte Buckton	Hunter School of Performing Arts	Sex In the Ditty: An exploration into the representation of female sexuality in popular music videos
Distinction	Cassandra Duncan	St Marys Senior High School	The Polarisation: Assimilation vs Multiculturalism
Distinction	Isabella Macneil	Central Coast Grammar	When I grow up, I want to b…
Distinction	Elisabeth Murray	Killara High School	Hidden from sight in the lucky country? Perceptions of child poverty by the Sydney community
Distinction	Amanda Wood	Carlingford High School	Boy, oh boy. We have a problem
Distinction	Christine Lam	Macquarie Fields High School	Is Alternative Music, â€œMusic for Males?â€ What is the relationship between gender and music?
Distinction	Georgina Willcock	Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College	The SHAM that could challenge Maslow
Distinction	Trent Fuller	Merewether High School	Taking the Piss: A study of political satire as an agent of socialisation
Distinction	Amelia Goodson	St Marys Senior High School	Career Paralysis

2005 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2005 HSC were held on Friday 26 February 2006 in the Dixson Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Student Name	School
1	Francesca Sidoti	St Columba’s Springwood
2	Jace Armstrong	Kiama High School
3	Catherine Pennington	Hornsby Girls High School
4	Sarah Judd	Hornsby Girls High School
Equal 5	Sarah Kelshaw	Sydney Distance Education High School
Equal 5	Claire Sellwood	Caringbah High School
7	Fatima Malik	St Marys Senior High School
8	Kate Thomson	Merewether High School
9	Celeste White	Masada College
10	Kurt Bugden	Mitchell High School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Student Name	School	Project Title – Click the links to read extracts from these meritorious PIPs
Reconciliation	Monica Blain	Narara Valley High School	Define and Divide. Do We Define Who we are by who the Other is?
Gender Studies	Kurt Bugden	Mitchell High School	Manufacturing Masculinity.
Civics and Citizenship	Ausseela Thanaphongsakorn	Burwood Girls High School	Danger: Postmodernism Doesn’t Give a Flying Duck.
Popular Culture	Francesca Sidoti	St Columba’s Springwood	“Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation” Is There a Song that Defines Generation Y?
Belief Systems	Amelia Marshall	Baulkham Hills High School	The Hillsong Phenomenon.
Studies of Asia	Amali Seneviratne	Cheltenham Girls HS	Curries, Coconuts, And Bananas. What Type Of Asian Are You?
Equality & Difference	Elise Bogart	St Marys Senior High School	Blaming The Victim. The Generation And Maintenance Of Inequality In Contemporary Australian Society.
The President’s Prize	Bethany Allsopp	Chevalier College	The Role Of Institutional Factors in the Making of a Man.
High Distinction	Jace Armstrong	Kiama High School	Moisturizing Masculinity
High Distinction	Jacqueline Dahl-Speck	Cheltenham Girls HS	The Rabbit Proof Fence: Barriers to Reconciliation.
High Distinction	Elaine Francisco	Tyndale Christian School	Finding Mr Darcy
High Distinction	Calliste Weitenberg	Hunter School of Performing Arts	Anchor-Lady: The Role of Females in TV Journalism
High Distinction	Fatima Malik	St Marys Senior High School	A Clash of Civilisations?
High Distinction	Marion Simmonds	Cheltenham Girls HS	The Adultification of Children and the Emergence of Tweens: An Investigation of Postman’s Hypothesis
High Distinction	Ai Ikeda	Rose Bay Secondary College	SexedOut? An Investigation into the Impacts of Modernity on the Scoial construction of Individual Sexual Identity
High Distinction	Rose Matijevic	Mitchell High School	Fat or Fiction: You decide… or Do You?
High Distinction	Kim Leontiev	Rose Bay Secondary College	X-Men. A Critical Examination of Codes of Masculinity
High Distinction	Kate Thomson	Merewether High School	Apathy or Cynicism? Australian Young People and Political Participation
High Distinction	Khapil Narula	Epping Boys High School	School and Belonging. Do Stereotypical Identities Define a Male Student’s Sense of Belonging to his School?
High Distinction	Alysha Casey	Central Coast Grammar	Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me. An investigation into the Effects of Alienation from an Adolescent Peer Group on Identity Formation.
High Distinction	Deahne Pinto	Bradfield College	Pentecostalism: Religion of the 21st Century?
High Distinction	Catherine Pennington	Hornsby Girls High School	The Times they are a-Changing
High Distinction	Elizabeth Hearn	Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College	Shaping Society. The Power relationship between Media, the Government and the Public
Distinction	Marina Shu	Cheltenham Girls HS	Power of One: Does Growing Up with or without Siblings significantly affect the way a Person Competes with Others
Distinction	Catherine Simmons	Caringbah High School	The Christmas Tug of War
Distinction	Brooke Delbridge	Merewether High School	From Number 96 to Queer Eye. Homosexual Stereotypes on Australian Television
Distinction	Dana McMullen	Gosford High School	The Playschool Syndrome
Distinction	Mia Pinjuh	Caringbah High School	And My Crush Say Everything. Gender Difference in Adolescent Embarrassing Moments
Distinction	Penny Marriott	All Saints (St Mary’s)	The Portrayal of Gender Roles and Housework in the Australian Women’s Weekly from the 60s and the Present
Distinction	Joanna-Nel Cubelo	St Marys Senior High School	Is there Life after Divorce?
Distinction	James Braithwaite	St Marys Senior High School	Do Muscles Have Gender?
Distinction	Leah Manago	St Marys Senior High School	Globalisation and its Adverse affects on the Poor
Distinction	Ingrid van Woerkom	Baulkham Hills High School	21st century Hajj
Distinction	Angela Lee	Hornsby Girls High School	Totally Cool
Distinction	Leanne Cook	Mullumbimby High School	Chance Made Us Sisters Hearts Made Us Friends
Distinction	Benita Chudleigh	Mullumbimby High School	Those Who’ve Come Across The Seas
Distinction	Thomas Mesker	Mosman High School	When the Glass is Empty. A Look at Fathers and Their Sons?
Distinction	Rachelle O’Donnell	Wollongong High School of Performing Arts	They Who Give and Those Who Get are Alike Blessed

2004 Results

The awards ceremony for the 2004 HSC were held on Friday 25 February 2005 in the Dixson Room at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

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TOP 10 STUDENTS

Rank	Student Name	School
1	Lauren Miller	Hornsby Girls High School
2	Medeleine Fraser	Santa Sabina College
3	Derrick Gee	Epping Boys High School
Equal 4	Lachlan Hodgson	Macarthur Anglican College (Cobbity Campus)
Equal 4	Katrina Symonds	Reddam House (Bondi Campus)
Equal 4	Tais Topal Silva	Macarthur Girls High School
7	Kapil Bazil	Epping Boys High School
8	Jessica Chung	North Sydney Girls High School
9	Claire Cullen	Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College
10	Georgia Snow	Emanuel School

PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES

Category	Student Name	School	Project Title
Gender Prize	Rosa Campbell	Burwood Girls High School	The F-Word: An investigation in the status of Feminism among young women 16-19
Popular Culture Prize	Tara Buddhipala	Cheltenham Girls High School	Planet Bollywood. An investigation of the changing nature of Bollywood and its reflection and influence upon the Indian community in Australia and India.
President’s Prize	Georgia Snow	Emanuel School	Is Authority Gender based?
Reconciliation Prize.	Lachlan Hodgson	Macarthur Anglican College (Cobbity Campus)	The over-representation of Indigenous youth in the juvenile justice system: A colonial legacy.
Gender Prize	Anita Lazar	Mary MacKillop College	The PIMP/HO relationship
Asia Prize	Michelle Lan	North Sydney Girls HS	Between the Chopsticks and the Fork
Civics and Citizenship	Elizabeth Lancaster	Oxford Falls Grammar School	Control the past; control the future.
Belief Systems Prize.	Christopher Hellmundt	Wollongong HS of Performing Arts	Tibetan Buddhism- A Powerful Philosophy or a popular culture?
High Distinction	Christine Cattley	Greystanes HS	“To serve and protect”. Analysis of how and why the representation of women on Australian television has changed over time, as reflected in police dramas.
High Distinction	Ilana Levi	Moriah College	From one generation to the next. An investigation into the nature of the socialization process of daughters within the Jewish Australian family structure.
High Distinction	Byron Kemp	Keira Technology HS	Teenage Testosterone in training
High Distinction	Kate Spies	Engadine HS	“Whats the goss on gossip?”” The social function of gossip.
High Distinction	Kapil Bazil	Epping Boys HS	Tongues in a twist.
High Distinction	Lauren Miller	Hornsby Girls HS	Splitting the difference. The influence of age, gender and twin type on a twins’ social experience leading to their sense of identity.
High Distinction	Melissa Polovin	Moriah College	“Once upon atime I fell in Love… and we lived happily ever after”. A case study of romantic lover over time.
High Distinction	Jamila Solomon	Emanuel School	“Where’s the love? the fine line between, love children and bastards.
High Distinction	Emma Purdon	Whitebridge HS	Cyber bullying
Distinction	Liza Khatchadourian	Mary MacKillop College	Behind Bars: Women in NSWâ€™s prisons.
Distinction	Claudia Milunsky	Moriah College	Liar! Liar! Pains on Fire!
Distinction	Cissie Chang Cheng	Hornsby Girls HS	Names and the naming practice in Chinese culture.
Distinction	Tevvi Bullock	Merewether HS	“Those Magic Words” the sacrificing of true emotion.
Distinction	Gabrielle Rein	Emanuel School	“The Lying Game” is lying the value consensus of our society?
Distinction	Samuel Foy	Chevalier College	To what degree do political cartoons represent the views of society?
Distinction	Rebecca Dalliwall	Santa Sabina College	Political correctness and the school curriculum.
Distinction	Alison King	Cheltenham Girls HS	When East meets West…
Distinction	Moana Barroso	Carlingford HS	“The Voice of the drum connects the wandering soul to their roots.” Uruguayan immigrants use their traditional music as a form of social security and cohesion.
Distinction	Joanna Jodeh	Parramatta HS	Falling madly out of love with marriage. A study of the changes of attitudes of westernized, educated and non educated women towards marriage.
Distinction	Zoe Adams	Macquarie Fields HS	Position vacant: Lion tamers wanted for boys education, gender theories and boys at school.
Distinction	Kate Ralph	Melville HS	The issue is not black and white â€“ are aboriginal students failing school or is school failing them?
Distinction	Mary Calleja	Smith’s Hill HS	Life without Daddy…
Distinction	Claire Scott	Springwood HS	We are what we talk.
Distinction	Alison Batt	St Joseph’s Catholic College	Black Australia
Distinction	Sasha Bullivant	Gilroy College	E-raced.