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    Mateship and mullets

    Jan 19, 2022 4 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE

    The mullet haircut may be a divisive fashion look but for boarding students at Melbourne’s Xavier College, it was a unifying statement that helped them support each other through the recent COVID-19 lockdowns.

    Xavier College is a Catholic school founded by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in the suburb of Kew in 1872. Buildings on what is now the 17-hectare senior campus were completed in time for classes to commence in 1878. The current senior school houses more than 1000 students from years nine to 12. They included a tight-knit cohort of 56 boarders

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