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Quest

Quest is Adult Learning Australia’s national magazine. It is published quarterly and distributed free to over 5,000 subscribers. It features an informative mix of feature writing, news, analysis and stories from the ground for a national and international audience. Join ALA to receive a copy of Quest each quarter or subscribe here. Organisations interested in advertising in Quest can refer to our advertising rates and requirements.

2024

Issue 1, 2024

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2023

Issue 3, 2023

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2022

Issue 3, 2022

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2021

Issue 4, 2021

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2020

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2019

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2018

Issue 4, 2018

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Issue 3, 2018

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  • 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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2017

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2016

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2015

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2014

 

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2011

Issue 4, 2011

Articles include

  • 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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Issue 3, 2011

Articles include

  • Australian delegate walks us further along road to gender equality
  • Ancient knowledges empower modern students
  • Adult Learners’ Week is over but it’s only the beginning

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Issue 2, 2011

Articles include

  • Keen to Green? Byron Bay centre leads the way in Eco-literacy
  • The Case for ACE in Queensland
  • Innovative Forum re-thinks VET and Life Skills for Global Citizenship

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Issue 1, 2011

Articles include

  • National Broadband Network Inquiry
  • New Perspectives on Indigenous Education
  • Australian Delegation to Settlement Summitn

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2010

Issue 4, 2010

Articles include

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

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Issue 3, 2010

Articles include

  • Creating partnerships in adult literacy
  • An Interview with Hon Peter Collier
  • Literacy and Numeracy Levels in the Workplace

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Issue 2, 2010

Articles include

  • Men’s Learning and Wellbeing Forum
  • ACE: Re-engaging Young Learners For Success
  • A Marriage made with Broadband

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Issue 1, 2010

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  • Broadband for Seniors
  • Emerging technologies to support flexible training and assessment
  • The Iceberg of Informal Learning

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2009

Issue 4, Summer 2009

Articles include

  • Good and bad eLearning
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of e-learning
  • First of its kind in Western Sydney

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Issue 3, Spring 2009

Articles include

  • Facebooking the Future
  • E-portfolio Showcase
  • “It Is Never Too Late To Learn About Your Health”

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Issue 2, Winter 2009

Articles include

  • Early learnings: re E-learning
  • Keeping informal learning informal
  • Building equitable and sustainable societies in Asia and the Pacific?

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Issue 1, Autumn 2009

Articles include

  • The challenge of National Policy
  • Adult Literacy Research Project: What we have learnt
  • Are you going green?

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2008

Issue 2, Winter 2008

Articles include

  • ALA Thinks this is Important… Do You?
  • Australian Flexible Learning Framework
  • Do you want to ‘land’ your dream job?

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Issue 1, Autumn 2008

Articles include

  • The History Behind the ALA Submission
  • The Importance of Health Education
  • Abuse of Elderly People – It’s Not OK

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2007

Issue 8, Summer 2007

Articles include

  • Milang Old School House Community Centre – A Leader in Learning
  • Web 2.0 & 23 Things
  • ALA 2007 National Conference

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Issue 7, Spring 2007

Articles include

  • Principles for Facilitating Youth Learning
  • Radio Broadcasts – Learners Broadgather!
  • Adult Learners’ Week 2007

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Issue 6, Winter 2007

Articles include

  • Our Minister’s View Extract from Andrew Robb Speech
  • Australian Study Circle
  • ALA In Quest of Learning

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Issue 5, Autumn 2007

Articles include

  • The Value of ACE Providers
  • Some thoughts of a city dwelling radio producer
  • 100 years of service

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Issue 4, Summer 2007

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  • ALA 46th Annual National Conference 2006
  • A Kiwi’s Impression
  • E-learning reaches rural and remote communities

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2006

Issue 3, Spring 2006

Articles include

  • Learn @ Work Today
  • Macquarie Community College wins Small Business Award
  • E-learning: Creative Community Partnerships Project

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Issue 2, Winter 2006

Articles include

  • The capacity of ACE for skilling Australia
  • Kia ora Aotearoa ACE Conference 2006
  • Livestock training program

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Issue 1, Autumn 2006

Articles include

  • ALA 45th Annual National Conference 2005
  • 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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2005

Issue 4, Summer 2005

Articles include

  • 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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Issue 3, Spring 2005

Articles include

  • Balancing Life, Work, Past and Future
  • Growing the Great Southern
  • Evaluating Hume Global Learning Village

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Issue 2, Winter 2005

Articles include

  • Learning For Wellness
  • Towards a Learning Revolution in Australia Society
  • Engaging Youth Learners

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Issue 1, Autumn 2005

Articles include

  • Flexible Learning Advisory Group
  • E-learning Creative Community Partnerships ALA
  • Conference 2004 Report

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2004

Issue 4, Summer 2004

Articles include

  • How Far Can We Stretch?
  • ALA National Awards 2004
  • Adult Learners’ Week 2004

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Issue 3, Spring 2004

Articles include

  • What a Nation can do
  • Research Agenda for Indigenous Students
  • Touching the Elephant

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Quest 2/2004
Issue 2, Winter 2004

Articles include

  • Balancing Life, Work, Past and Future
  • Learn @ Work Day 2004
  • Flexible Learning Leaders
  • ALA Conference 2004

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Issue 1, Autumn 2004

Articles include

  • Intergenerational Learning
  • 43rd Annual Conference
  • ACE Vet Pathways in WA

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2003

Issue 4, Summer 2003

Articles include

  • Net*Working 2003
  • Loneliness of the Long-Distance Learner?
  • Citizenship Education

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Issue 3, Spring 2003

Articles include

  • Learn @ Work
  • Adult Learners’ Week: the Learning Communities Catalyst

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Issue 2, Winter 2003

Articles include

  • Flexible Learning and E-learning
  • Whakamana te Tuapapa o Tangata Motuhake: Rebuilding Foundations and Participation
  • Adult Learners’ Week 2003: What is Literacy?

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Issue 1, Autumn 2003 Articles include

  • ALA Survey
  • Adult Learners’ Week Evaluation Provides Positive Results
  • Community Based Education in Taiwan
  • Meet me in St. Louis

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2002

Issue 4, Summer 2002

Articles include

  • Eureka! The 2002 Allen Strom Prize for Environmental Education
  • Never Stop Learning!
  • The Champion of Liberal Education
  • Indigenous Learning Culture

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Issue 3, Spring 2002

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  • A Not-too-modest Adult Learning Project: Australia
  • ALA’s Community Learning Leadership Program
  • The Best of British: ALW in the UK
  • Koia Koia

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Issue 2, Winter 2002

Articles include

  • School of Arts
  • Introducing Francesca Beddie
  • Adult Learners’ Week Behind the Scenes
  • ALA’s National Conference: Catch a Tiger by the Tail

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Issue 1, Autumn 2002

Articles include

  • Recognising Excellence in Adult Education
  • Putting the Lens on Youth in the Community
  • Celebrations for Development and Change
  • Re-discovering the Vocation of Adult Education

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2001

Issue 4, Summer 2001

Articles include

  • Kakadu a Place of Learning
  • Citizenship in Progress
  • How Museums & Galleries are Letting us Down
  • Learning Through Bookclubs

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Issue 3, Spring 2001

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  • Will the next Federal Government Deliver for Adult Larning?
  • What Adult Educators Want From the Next Federal Government
  • Research on ACE VET
  • Take a Risk With Your Ego

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Issue 2, Winter 2001

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  • Investing in a Better Society (Lobbying the Federal Government Prior to the Election)
  • Make the Connection with Adult Learners Week 2001
  • New Directions for ACE Research

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Issue 1, Autumn 2001

Articles include

  • Election Time in Western Australia
  • New Approaches to Informal Learning
  • Learned in Time (A Series of Reports From the ALA Annual Conference)
  • FarMBis Could be ACE Biz

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2000

Issue 4, Summer 2000

Articles include

  • A Clever Country Means…
  • Learning and Health
  • Cultivating Learning in the Disabililty Sector
  • Learning in Ballarat (Learning City)

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Issue 3, Spring 2000

Articles include

  • Shane Gould Launches Adult Learners Week
  • Adult Learners Week Around the World
  • Learning Cities
  • Council of Adult Education’s New Direction

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Issue 2, Winter 2000

Articles include

  • Adult Learners Week 2000
  • Indigenous Views on Lifelong Learning
  • Individual Learning Accounts: Do They Work?
  • Mobile Children’s Services in ACE

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Issue 1, Autumn 2000

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  • John Field on Turning Research Into Good Policy
  • Don Sutherland on The Future of Unions
  • A Profile of Radio 5UV, Winner of the 1999 Provider of the Year

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