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Issue 3, 2024

• Take the journey and change your lives
• ALW 2024 Scholarship winners
• Learning Changes Lives Foundation prizes
• Inspiring others to take the journey
• Celebrating Learners and Learning
• Member round up
• ACE update

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Issue 2, 2024

• Ten tips for exploring this year’s ALW theme
• U3A: 40 years of lifelong learning connections and friendship
• School for seniors gathers and keeps people engaged
• Adult Learners Week 2024
• A legacy of Learning
• Meet our new Board members
• Member round up
• ACE update

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Issue 1, 2024

• Celebrating women’s learning
• A lifelong commitment to adult education
• A passionate advocate for adult literacy
• Crafting opportunities
• Member round up
• ACE update

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Issue 3, 2023

• It’s never too late to celebrate adult learning
• Inspiring ALW scholarship winners
• Telling learner stories to inspire others
• Celebrating learners and learning – ALW event winners
• Member round up
• ACE update

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Issue 2, 2023

• Jump starting literacy
• No more waiting at Bus Stop
• ALW2023: It’s never too late
• Easy to read news for adult learners
• Member round up
• ACE update
• Tips for re-engaging with learning

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Issue 1, 2023

• Learning on the road to recovery
• Riding the trails
• Off the streets and into education
• Tasmyn makes a mark
• Member round up
• ACE update

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Issue 3, 2022

• Adult learning for absolutely everyone
• ALW Scholarship winners
  • A thirst for learning
  • Maya’s hard work pays off
  • Elsa steps out
• Connecting with Adult Learners Week
• Member round up
• ACE update

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Issue 2, 2022

• Hands-on learning drives success
• Moving on to a better life
• ALW2022 connects with learning
• Taking adult literacy to the streets
• Member round up
• ACE update
• Tips for exploring #ALW2022 theme

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Issue 1, 2022

• Prisoner training opens doors
• Bilingual course engineers success
• Election 2022— ALA calls for #AdultEd4All
• Member round up
• ACE update
• Tips for overcoming maths anxiety

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Issue 4, 2021

• Green skills for sustainable living
• Literacy classes helps healing
• Sharing luck around
• Coffee changes lives at Hackham West
• ACE update

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Issue 3, 2021

• Launch kicks off Adult Learners Week
• Up for a challenge
• Sparking a career
• Aiming for a bright future
• ALW celebrations around Australia
• Learning Changes Lives awards
• ACE update

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Issue 2, 2021

• Click go the classroom shears
• Adult Learners Week 2021
• DIY custom made coffins
• View from the Board
• ACE update

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Issue 1, 2021

• Australia’s adult literacy crisis
• Mentors drive success
• Getting There
• ACE update

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Issue 4, 2020

• Headstones from the heart
• Pitch perfect
• Nautilus offers fresh start
• Learnings from COVID
• Six decades on and still going strong

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Issue 3, 2020

Articles include:

• Adult Learners Week launch success
• Meet the ALW scholarship winners:
  • Chris Roland
  • Ghazal Sharhani
  • Loran McKean
• Adult Learners Week around Australia
• Community newspaper thrives
• Victoria leads the way in adult literacy

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Issue 2, 2020

Articles include:

• Digital at the depot
• Facebook for English
• Lockdown Learning
• Adult Learners Week
• Street theatre to global stage
• View from the Board
• ACE update
• Tips for online teaching

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Issue 1, 2020

Articles include:

• Education path opens for new mums
• Message from the CEO
• Singing for sweet freedom
• Learning on the job
• Happy birthday to us
• ACE update

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Issue 4, 2019

Articles include:

• Out of the ashes
• Message from the CEO
• Better literacy better health
• Older wiser drivers
• A vision for Adult Community Education
• ACE update

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Issue 3, 2019

Articles include:

• Outstanding adult learners: Greg Nelson, Kylie Mahon, Anita Burfield
• Corrections on course
• Adult Learners Week celebrations
• Enabling employment
• Tips for developing spelling skills
• ACE update

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Issue 2, 2019

Articles include:

• Learning off the farm
• Message from the CEO
• Literacy takes a legal turn
• Glyde-In’s recipe for success
• Adult Learners Week 2019
• Tips for #ALW2019 events
• ACE update

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Issue 1, 2019

Articles include:

• A taste for work
• Message from the CEO
• Playing with English
• Prison radio makes waves
• Leading by example
• Tips for building learner confidence
• ACE update

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Issue 4, 2018

Articles include:

• Jailed for pawsession
• Message from the CEO
• Women at the wheel
• Photos give refugees a voice
• Government policy on adult
  education
• Tips for Facebook groups
• ACE news

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Issue 3, 2018

Articles include:

• Taking the plunge
• Message from the CEO
• Vision for a learning society
• Adult Learners’ Week on show
• Ready to shine
• Tips for recording video on your phone
• ACE update

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Issue 2, 2018

Articles include:

• Beyond the farm gate
• Message from the CEO
• Lessons in Lifelong Learning
• Course reduces homelessness
• Adult Learners Week
• Alphabet Soup for Stawell
• Tips for a great #ALW2018 event
• ACE news from around Australia

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Issue 1, 2018

Articles include:

• Turning pages for literacy
• Message from the CEO
• Prescribing Art
• Life after Holden
• Year of Lifelong Learning Summit
• Tips for social media planning
• ACE news from around Australia

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Quest 4, 2017

Articles include:

• Serving up culture
• Message from the CEO
• Spanner in the works?
• Tips for taking stock
• Adult literacy turns 40
• ACE news from around Australia

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Quest 3, 2017

Articles include:

• Reconnecting with education
• Message from the CEO
• Reading Write Now
• Adult Learners’ Week a hit
• Tips for being a lifelong learner at work
• ACE awards

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Quest 2, 2017

Articles include:

• Igniting the artistic spark
• Message from the CEO
• Adult Learners’ Week 2017
• Tips for celebrating Adult Learner’ Week 2017
• A positive start to parenting
• Exploring possibilities, changing lives
• Bringing Indigenous knowledge to Indigenous education
• ACE update

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Quest 1, 2017

Articles include:

• Power through power tools
• Message from the CEO
• Board news
• Learning to believe at Griffith Uni
• Crunch time at Woodend
• Tips for putting adult learning principles into action
• ACE update

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Quest 4, 2016

Articles include:

• Cafe with a conscience
• Message from the CEO
• Bringing the classroom to the shelter
• Lifting off with Linfox
• Tips for volunteer numeracy tutors
• ACE update

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Quest 3, 2016

Articles include:

• Licensed and on the road
• Message from the CEO
• Tips for getting the most out of a conference
• Celebrating Adult Learners’ Week
• Insight into Adult Literacy
• Redrawing the map of digital disadvantage
• It’s the awards season
• ALA Board news

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Quest 2, 2016

Articles include:

• Champions for lifelong learning
• Message from the CEO
• Adult Learners’ Week
• Healthy cooking class serves up fun
• Rediscovering the joy of two wheels
• ALA Board news

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Quest 1, 2016

Articles include:

• Diving with a disability
• Message from the CEO
• Tasmania’s Devonport community commits to lifelong learning
• First aid for mental health
• ALA Board vacancies
• Tips for taking control of your website

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Quest 4, 2015

Articles include:

• Opening doors to rural life
• Message from the CEO
• Learning from the NDIS rollout
• Practising lifelong and lifewide learning
• Back to the future
• Yarraville Community Centre turns 40

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Quest 3, 2015

Articles include:

• Don’t judge a book by its cover
• Message from the CEO
• Hands on at Hawthorn hackerspace
• Aboriginal literacy program flourishes
• New head for International Council for Adult Education
• Adult Learners’ Week a hit
• Internet safety

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Quest 2, 2015

Articles include:

• Connecting a Community
• Message from the CEO
• Campaigning for lifelong learning
• Women take the lead
• Celebrating adult learners
• Meet the board

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Quest 1, 2015

Articles include:

• Taking training Outback
• Council strategy encourages community learning
• Classroom chemistry: Teaching and learning Auslan
• Corrections on course
• Disengaged young people on path to learning
• Tips and Trends: Some simple rules of social media

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Quest 4, 2014

Articles include:

• Learning on the road
• Freya’s a winner
• Tips and Trends: Developing business models for  community organisations
• From the Board : What I learned in 2014
• Community choirs sing from the heart
• Encounter with literacy
• Obituary: Jack Mezirow

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Quest 3, 2014

Articles include:

• Family lessons in homework
• All Abilities pitch in for event success
• Tips and trends: Managing paid staff
• Flying the flag for sustainability
• Adult Learners’ Week
• Licence to learn
• Meet the board: Paul Mulroney

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Quest 2, 2014

Articles include:

• Unlikely partnership builds bridges
• The power of spinning yarns
• Dorothy Lucardie inducted into Hall of Fame
• Putting down roots in Alice Springs
• Tips and trends – What’s in a webinar
• Careers course provides direction
• Meet the board – Cath Dunn

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Quest 1, 2014

Articles include:

• Talking about suicide
• Bookshelf : Building Self Sustaining Communities
• Support and learning for young mums
• Bookshelf: Men Learning through Life
• Obituary – Professor Gordon Barclay
• Tips and trends – Attracting skilled volunteers
• Hospitality class puts food on the table

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Quest 4, 2013

Articles include:

• Women trading places
• Message from the CEO
• Bridging the Digital Divide
• Showing and telling – the Men’s Shed Crawl
• Conference round-up
• Social Inclusion in Learning Conference
• Celebrating a century of Workers’ Education
• Putting your website to work
• Christmas wishes for adult learners

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Quest 3, 2013

Articles include:

• Students making their mark
• Message from the CEO
• Hall of Fame for Adult educators
• Seniors saddling up for a ride
• Sustainability for educators
• Retaining volunteers
• Indigenous artists and strong talk
• Logie night for the adult education sector

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Quest 2, 2013

Articles include:

• Cooking up a food literacy course
• Message from the CEO
• Learning opportunities popping up all over
• Adult learning journal advances debate
• 10 steps for pricing courses
• Unearthing stories of the past
• On the right path for Adult Learners’ Week
• Joining forces ensures conference success
• Bridges and barriers in the bush

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Quest 1, 2013

Articles include:

• Champion community advocate wins national award
• Message from the CEO
• Meet our Ambassador Rosemary Stanton
• Shelving retirement plans can be good for your health
• Household money management pays off
• Personal stories of lifelong learning
• Getting the hang of Google hangouts

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Quest 4, 2012

Articles include:

• Home-based learning scored top marks in NT
• Message from the CEO
• Outstanding educator inducted into Hall of Fame
• National Conference 2012
• Government trials financial wellbeing courses
• ALA award winners
• Attracting and keeping positive committee members
• Farewell Roger Harris
• Meet our ambassador

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Quest 3, 2012

Articles include:

• Sydney women get down to microbusiness
• Message from the CEO
• New Community Education and Training Website launched
• Adult learning in Australia – The big picture
• To print or not to print?
• Long serving CEO of WEA honoured on Queen’s birthday list
• ALA welcomes Ursula Stephens
• Just a very special person –
  Tribute to Jack McDonnell

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Quest 2, 2012

Articles include:

• Teaching old dads new tricks
• Editorial
• Provider profile: A day in the life of a South Australian ACE
• Deliberative democracies harness public power through learning
• For what are libraries if not for learning?
• It’s in the post: books by mail
• Tips and trends:
  Digital business for NFPs

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Quest 1, 2012

Articles include:

• Seniors take the stage for an encore career
• Message from the CEO
• Provider profile: Deborah Miller
• Encore careers in action
• $3.25M to boost adult literacy and numeracy skills in SA
• Cuban literacy program comes to Indigenous Australians
• Teaching and learning for civic participation
• Interview with Alan Tuckett
• In brief
• Obituary

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• Learning centre helps community heal after Victorian bushfires
• Well-being team helps young people re–engage in learning
• Timber town flies the flag

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• Ancient knowledges empower modern students
• Adult Learners’ Week is over but it’s only the beginning

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• The Case for ACE in Queensland
• Innovative Forum re-thinks VET and Life Skills for Global Citizenship

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• New Perspectives on Indigenous Education
• Australian Delegation to Settlement Summitn

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• Research Shows ACE Creates Pathways
• ACE Pathways Research : The Background
• ALA 50th Anniversary Conference Update

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• An Interview with Hon Peter Collier
• Literacy and Numeracy Levels in the Workplace

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• A Marriage made with Broadband

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• Building equitable and sustainable societies in Asia and the Pacific?

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• Are you going green?

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• Do you want to ‘land’ your dream job?

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• 100 years of service

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• A Kiwi’s Impression
• E-learning reaches rural and remote communities

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• E-learning: Creative Community Partnerships Project

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• Kia ora Aotearoa ACE Conference 2006
• Livestock training program

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• The City of Tea Tree Gully’s Holden Hill Community Centre’s Indigenous Mural Project
• Reading the newspaper while driving the car… I’d like to see that!!

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• Senator Ursula Stephens – Strategies for Australia’s Mental Health
• Log on For Depression and Anxiety Help
• The Way Forward – Adult Education and Mental Health in England

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• Growing the Great Southern
• Evaluating Hume Global Learning Village

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• Touching the Elephant

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• ALA Conference 2004

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• ACE Vet Pathways in WA

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• Adult Learners’ Week 2003: What is Literacy?

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• Community Based Education in Taiwan
• Meet me in St. Louis

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• Re-discovering the Vocation of Adult Education

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• New Directions for ACE Research

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