Andrew Wear is a public policy expert from Melbourne. He’s worked across a vast array of policy areas from Planning and Community, Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. But his view is global. That came in handy when he decided to write a book that looked at how some of the world’s biggest problems were being solved. Regarded by Andrew as a journey of discovery for himself, the book is called SOLVED - and it details how ten countries solved ten big problems from climate change to multiculturalism. It's a brilliantly researched and inspiring read whether you’re into public policy itself or simply a resident of planet Earth.
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The idea of “saving the world” is one tossed out in a glib way in conversation, a grandiose statement few believe can manifest.
But Tom Cronin is taking his mission, to do that exact thing, save with world, via meditation, extremely seriously.
Tom Cronin is co author of “The Portal: How Meditation can Save the World” and writer and producer of a film of the same name.
Tom used meditation to regain his health after reaching the lowest of points as a stressed-out trader, suffering depression and anxiety. But it wasn’t enough for Tom simply benefit personally. Meditation has become Tom’s reason for being.
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The idea of an artificial womb – a place where a prematurely born baby could continue to safely gestate closer to full term, is one scientists have worked on intermittently since the late 1950’s. Until recently it’s been considered a wild card, a fairly unorthodox angle on dealing with pre-term birth. In this conversation, Women and Infants Research Foundation ( WIRF) researcher Assoc Professor Matthew Kemp discusses the determination, dedication and serendipity that has gained the artificial womb project significant recognition.
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I consider writing to be a lifelong apprenticeship. I don't think you ever really arrive as a writer. It's not like you write your fifth novel and now you've made it and now you know how to write a novel. You may know how to do the mechanics of the novel, but every book is different.
In this conversation from his home in Seattle, Dominic Smith reflects on the formation of his writing discipline and muses about being an American, born and bred in Australia as well as his latest work The Electric Hotel.
Smith’s fourth novel, "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos" was a New York Times best seller and won both Indie Book of the Year AND the Australian Book Industry awards Literary Fiction Book of the Year in 2017.
The Electric Hotel is around the birth of cinema, as the Lumière Brothers sent commission agents around the world to demonstrate their cinematographe, a development on Edison’s kinetoscope which was more like a private peep show.
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Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s how the saying goes, and that’s how Elizabeth Wilson feels about her work as a Senior Educator at Polestar Pilates Australia, and Director of the Perth Pilates Studio. Starting out as a vet, with a strong dance background, Elizabeth was quickly drawn to the Pilates method when it emerged in Western Australia over two decades ago. Liz was my first Pilates instructor and inspired me to study the method as an instructor and a student. In this conversation, she shares some of her limitless knowledge on the Pilates, the man and the movement.
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