ARTICULATED: Hopetoun College’s Darcy Milburn will compete at Legacy’s junior public speaking competition’s national finals after placing second to Portland’s Isaac Legg in the state final last week.

For the competition’s prepared five-minute speech, Mr Milburn spoke about his gratitude for World War II veterans, farmers and truck drivers; he spoke to the topic ‘I wish…’ in the two-minute impromptu speech.

The national final competition is at Ballarat on November 15. 

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