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"We must work harder to protect the rights and freedoms of all Australians. It is time to legislate for a charter of rights to give parliament, civil society and the judiciary the legal tools to meet our human rights obligations."
Gillian Triggs in Speaking Up
"A mother’s love is so exquisite as to be beyond comparison; it is not measured on a scale."
Sarah Ferguson in On Mother
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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
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Hachette Australia and MUP announce that Hachette Australia has acquired the rights to the 'On Series'
Fiona Hazard, Group Publishing Director of Hachette Australia is delighted to announce that, effective 2nd January 2020, Hachette Australia has acquired the rights to Melbourne University Press’ popular ON SERIES.
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story: from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in Australia and New Zealand. Fift een thematic essays and twenty individual case studies bring to light a tremendous amount of new archival material in order to show how these innovative educators, exiled from Nazism, introduced Bauhaus ideas and models to a new world. As their Bauhaus model spanned art, architecture and design, the book provides a unique cross-disciplinary, emigre history of art education in Australia and New Zealand. It off ers a remarkable and little known chapter in the wider Bauhaus venture, which has multiple legacies and continues to inform our conceptions of progressive education, creativity and the role of art and design in the wider community.