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Alexandra Collier is a Melbourne-based writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. Her memoir Inconceivable, about solo motherhood, is out now.

Research projects to support a positive start to school.

By Associate Professor Janet Stanley and Professor John Stanley* THE natural areas of Melbourne are under threat at the same time as there’s growing evidence of their importance for humans. In the late 1960s, the Victorian government designated 12 areas, covering 17 municipalities around Melbourne, as land set aside for recreation, conservation, farming and resource utilisation purposes. These areas are known as green wedges. Over the past 60 years the world has changed. The rapid population ...

Steven Wright’s ‘The Coyotes of Carthage’ depicts realities of race, money and politics “It’s always such a great honor to teach such smart students, especially at the University of Wisconsin,” Steven Wright says. “They’re smart and they’re hardworking and they really love learning.” In August, USA Today published Two friends texted the list to Steven Wright, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and lecturer in ...

Lib bid to ban quarry 4 Mins Read Not in our backyard: Younger voices have been their concerns about the proposed quarry at Arthurs Seat. Picture: Supplied Share DRAWINGS by children opposed to the proposed Hillview quarry at Arthurs Seat have been shown in state parliament and included in Hansard. About 50 children wrote letters and drew pictures last month in a bid to convince Ross Trust board members to abandon their plans to clear 38 hectares of bushland for the proposed quarr...