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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

Lauren Pratt Jess Burns Julian Bolleter Planning for a Continent of Cities Robert Freestone

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 Australian cities. In this interview, UWAP intern Jess Burns speaks with Julian on the importance of sustainable cities, why social opinion is just as crucial as expert opinion when city planning and the book’s function as an evidence base for federal government urban policy

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Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra wins the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Fiction Literature

Lauren Pratt Awards Cassy Polimeni Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra Ella and the Frogs Hykie Breeze

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.

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A multifaceted multidisciplinary perspective: Authors of Collecting the West discuss their groundbreaking approach to understanding the history of collecting in Western Australia

Lauren Pratt Collecting the West Interview Jess Burns

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.  

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The Hum Hearers wins the 2025 Wesley Michel Wright Prize

Lauren Pratt Shey Marque The Hum Hearers

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.

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The Infant Vine named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards

Lauren Pratt Isabella G. Mead The Infant Vine

The Infant Vine named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards

The Infant Vine, the debut poetry collection, by Isabella G. Mead has been named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards.

The Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection is awarded to an outstanding collection of poetry by an Australian poet.

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