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Monash University event planners were keen to roll out the red carpet last Thursday night at Melbourne’s RACV Club on Bourke Street for the launch of
In the National Interest, a series of political thought pieces curated by the vice-chancellor’s professorial fellow, publisher
Louise Adler. The 12-title series includes contributions by former prime minister
Kevin Rudd, former Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary
Martin Parkinson and leading barrister
Rachel Doyle SC.
It could be Adler’s most significant political publishing foray since the high-profile former journalist quit as chief executive of Melbourne University Press in January 2019 following a sudden downsizing and sharp change in direction at the university imprint towards academic publishing.
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Itâs been two years since publisher
Louise Adler and Melbourne University Press pointedly parted ways. So it must have been with some measure of whiplash that some of Melbourneâs more prominent citizens received an invitation from Adler and MUP to launch Adlerâs latest project.
Of course, not
that MUP, one or two slips of the tongue aside. Monash University Publishing (same acronym, different outfit) asked Adler, now a professorial fellow at that university, to âcurateâ its new In The National Interest series. The first cohort of 20,000-word, pamphlet-like books on topics of national importance was launched last Thursday night at Melbourneâs RACV Club, to a mostly local audience that due to recent captivities hadnât seen a canape in months.
By Lyndsey Cambridge2021-03-03T13:30:00+00:00
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