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"While once a woman might have dreamt of a room of her own, now many have a whole home of their own, and other women can be envious of such freedoms."
Clare Payne in One
"A mother’s love is so exquisite as to be beyond comparison; it is not measured on a scale."
Sarah Ferguson in On Mother
"Quietude is not living in frustration, knowing you’ve never risked; but risking and failing, knowing you’ve at least tried."
Nikki Gemmell in On Quiet
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"Faith required effort that was beyond me. Doubt was instinctive."
Leigh Sales in On Doubt
"Politics as the art of conflict is not a phenomenon confined to the United States. In Australia, we had our own Trump precursor."
Katharine Murphy in On Disruption
From the blog
Melbourne University Publishing to publish Jane Caro’s Accidental Feminists in 2019
MUP is delighted to be publishing Accidental Feminists by award-winning writer and journalist, Jane Caro. In her new book Caro draws our attention to the unnoticed revolution led by women over 50.
Q & A with Rebe Taylor - Author of Into the Heart of Tasmania
"Jim taught me one of the toughest and best lessons...to put my notebook down, and to listen, and look at the country and culture. He said to stop being a researcher. That was when I really began to learn." - Rebe Taylor on what we can learn from Aboriginal Tasmania.
