Alexandra Collier is a Melbourne-based writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. Her memoir Inconceivable, about solo motherhood, is out now.
By Associate Professor Janet Stanley and Professor John Stanley
THE natural areas of Melbourne are under threat at the same time as there’s growing evidence of their importance for humans.
In the late 1960s, the Victorian government designated 12 areas, covering 17 municipalities around Melbourne, as land set aside for recreation, conservation, farming and resource utilisation purposes.
These areas are known as green wedges.
Over the past 60 years the world has changed. The rapid population growth and expansion of Melbourne’s footprint, along with the subsequent losses in biodiversity as increasingly scarce natural environments disappear, are particularly important to the future of green wedges.
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Steven Wrightâs âThe Coyotes of Carthageâ depicts realities of race, money and politics
âItâs always such a great honor to teach such smart students, especially at the University of Wisconsin,â Steven Wright says. âTheyâre smart and theyâre hardworking and they really love learning.”
In August, USA Today published
Two friends texted the list to Steven Wright, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and lecturer in the UWâMadison creative writing program whose debut novel, âThe Coyotes of Carthage,â came out in April. When another text arrived congratulating him, Wright was thoroughly confused.