Volume 6 Number 7 July 12 - August 8 2010
Once home to legendary musicians Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, the birthplace of the Blues had lost its rhythm, alumnus John Henshall found when he arrived in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The streets were empty, businesses closed and the buildings rundown. But the urban economist and planner fell under Clarksdale’s spell when he discovered the famous music scene was still thriving – and he put up his hand for a project to breathe the life back into the dishevelled town. Fiona Willan reports.
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Volume 6 Number 7 July 12 - August 8 2010
The United Nations’ 2000 resolution to halve extreme global poverty by 2015 will be given its final impetus next month at the first major UN conference ever held in Australia in Melbourne. Australian convenor, Professor Phil Batterham (Genetics), and Arts student Peter Willis, who has been seconded to work on the project, have also developed an exciting community engagement project to accompany the conference. Shane Cahill reports.
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Volume 6 Number 7 July 12 - August 8 2010
By happy coincidence, the very same week that a team of researchers received government funding to examine women and leadership in Australia, the country’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn in by its first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce. Gabrielle Murphy reports.
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Volume 6 Number 4 April 12 - May 3 2010
Malcolm Fraser is one of the most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia’s Prime Ministers. In this part memoir and part authorised biography, at the age of 79 he talks about his time in public life in Malcolm Fraser The Political Memoirs by Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons (The Miegunyah Press 2010).
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Volume 6 Number 4 April 12 - May 3 2010
A new illustrated edition of Bill Gammage’s classic The Broken Years promises that the future and past of Anzac will continue to be contested. By Shane Cahill.
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Volume 6 Number 4 April 12 - May 3 2010
Why do we get so emotional over Anzac asks Professor Joy Damousi in an edited extract from What’s wrong with Anzac?: the militarisation of Australian history by Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds, Joy Damousi, Mark McKenna (UNSW Press, 2010).
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Volume 6 Number 4 April 12 - May 3 2010
Australians like to pride themselves on giving money to those in need, but what motivates us to part with our hard-earned to help others? David Scott talks to Dr Nikos Nikiforakis about what drives charitable giving.
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Volume 6 Number 5 May 3 - June 14 2010
Ellen Sandell, who jointly won the Environment Minister’s Young Environmentalist of the Year Award for 2009, first started acting on environmental issues while studying a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne. She is now Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in Victoria (AYCC). By Christopher Strong
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Volume 6 Number 6 June 14 - July 12 2010
Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), oversees the protection of 34 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people, through the development of UN policies, law procedures and framework. Her position requires an understanding of international law and displacement trends on a global scale, but she always keeps focus on refugees as individuals. Christopher Strong reports.
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Volume 6 Number 6 June 14 - July 12 2010
Long hours, a competitive workplace and stressful working conditions seem par for the course for most jobs these days. But as David Scott found out, when your job involves being a street-worker in the sex industry, these issues are all too dangerous and real.
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Volume 6 Number 2 February 8 - March 8 2010
A 40th reunion of his South African medical school class set in train a journey for Sidney Bloch to resolve his decades-long struggle with his youthful inability to translate his abhorrence of apartheid into effective action. Shane Cahill talks to University of Melbourne Professor Sidney Bloch about the journey and a new documentary film.
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