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		<title>A BLOW FOR KIDS&#8217; POETRY &#8211; DOROTHEA MACKELLAR AWARDS LOSE FUNDING</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOROTHEA&#8217;S DEMISE In the year that well known children&#8217;s poet Lorraine Marwood received the Prime Minister&#8217;s Literary Award for her book Star Jumps the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards has been advised that the Federal Government has pulled the Awards lifeblood funding of $50,000. That the Prime Minister in one high publicity stroke recognised and endorsed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1330&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Library Inquiry Hearings move to Brisbane &#8211; July 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Public Hearing for the INQUIRY INTO SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND TEACHER LIBRARIANS IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS meets in Brisbane for the day. If would like to join the Public Gallery to observe the hearing, here are the details: DATE/TIME:      July 6, 2010, 11am &#8211; 12 noon VENUE:    Undumbi Room, Level 5, Parliamentary Annexe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1324&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inquiry Hearing now in Canberra &#8211; your chance to listen in</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From THE HUB&#8230; &#8220;Today Lyn Hay, Charles Sturt University Lecturer,  was the “star witness” to answer questions from the committee of Inquiry into School Libraries and Teacher Librarians in Canberra. Charles Sturt University is the last of three institutions training TLs in Australia, and has the greatest intake. Lyn was very good, as you would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1311&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Disappearing Librarians .. radio interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of school libraries are being built around the country, but who will teach in them? Specialist teacher/librarians are disappearing from schools, which has prompted concerns that students are missing out on the many things librarians have to teach them. And it&#8217;s not just about books. If you missed it here is a radio interview with former [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1306&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 01:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Western Australian School Library Association (WASLA), as the peak body for teacher librarians and other school library professionals in W.A., actively encourages the wider community to support out members in their endeavours to ensure that all Western Australian school students enjoy the benefits that can flow from having ready access to a well resourced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1300&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger: Katrina Germein &#8211; Australian children&#8217;s multi-award winning author of popular picture books, including her latest release, Little Dog (Scholastic Press 2010). IMAGINE &#8230; a public school in the 1980s In the library foyer was a scratch and sniff jelly bean poster. Inside were the stories waiting to be read. At the start of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1277&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger:  Dee White &#8211; author of young adult novel, Letters to Leonardo and others. I’m lucky to have two children who are both good readers, but they are different too. One is like me, a hopeless bookworm – the sort who reads at the breakfast table and bumps into things because he is holding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1263&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TEACHER-LIBRARIANS &#8216;WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD&#8217; &#8230;. Michael Gerard Bauer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger:  Michael Gerard Bauer &#8211; award-winning Australian author Each year I visit over 40 schools, talking to students about books and writing. I spend a lot of my time in libraries and resource centres. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m a huge fan of teacher-librarians. To me their role is one of the most crucial in any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1238&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CUT OFF DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS &#8211; 16th April 2010 With time running out to send a submission to the Federal Government&#8217;s LIBRARIES INQUIRY, now is the time to write to the letters&#8217; page of your state, national and local papers. Here are some useful contacts: The Age: email letters to letters@theage.com.au The Australian: email letters to letters@theaustralian.com.au [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1230&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie Masson speaks out for school librarians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger:  Sophie Masson – award-winning and prolific Australian author As the child of non English speaking parents (great readers, but not in English) school and public libraries for me were absolutely essential to my growth as a reader and a writer in Australia. Without those wonderful school librarians who set me on the path [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=savingaussiebooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8593130&amp;post=1223&amp;subd=savingaussiebooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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