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Cities are wonderful incubators of innovation: Julian Bolleter discusses 'Planning for a Continent of Cities' and the importance of sustainable city planning in tackling overpopulation in Australia →
Planning for a Continent of Cities (2025) is the new book by Julian Bolleter and Robert Freestone that explores various continental-scale settlement scenarios and how they each sustainably address rapid population growth across...

Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra wins the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Fiction Literature →
The Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature, now in its 31st year, recognises books that inspire a love for nature-from the soil below to the canopy above.

A multifaceted multidisciplinary perspective: Authors of Collecting the West discuss their groundbreaking approach to understanding the history of collecting in Western Australia →
In this interview, UWAP intern Jess Burns speaks with Alistair, Gaye and Tiffany on how collections helped Western Australia discover a sense of place, the entanglement of colonisation in collecting and the important role Indigenous peoples played in this history.

The Hum Hearers wins the 2025 Wesley Michel Wright Prize →
Shey Marque's poetry collection The Hum Hearers has won the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts Wesley Michel Wright Prize for an original work of verse or poetry.