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Jim Schley on Janey McCafferty
NER 6.4 (1984)
Former Managing Editor and Co-Editor Jim Schley introduces “While Mother Was Gone with 571” by Janey McCafferty from NER 6.4 (1984).
In the autumn of 1979, I’d graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in Creative Writing and Literature and a minor in Native American Studies. I made a list of jobs I would love to have, and working for a literary magazine was on top. I looked around the area where I was living, the Upper Valley region of central New Hampshire and Vermont, and realized that New England Review was right there, just north along the Connecticut River in Lyme, New Hampshire.
I’d taken courses from co-founder Jay Parini, but knew Sydney Lea only through mutual friends; yet this was well enough to write him a letter and ask if I could talk to him about helping with the journal.
From the start, Syd had vowed to read every submission that arrived, with characteristic passion. He was determined that the new journal would be completely receptive to the strongest writing that arrived, whatever its source. By the time I contacted him, there were hundreds of packets piling in every month, which was overwhelming. He asked if I’d be willing to review manuscripts with him for a modest rate, $5 an hour at first.
I started in January of 1980, and from the beginning this was an old-fashioned apprenticeship, as I learned in a bottom-to-top way the craft of editing, which has been my livelihood for most of the ensuing four decades.
Syd encouraged me to take the time I needed to carefully read and think about each piece, to the degree that I thought warranted, then send him with written comments on anything I believed should be given another look. I played this role for two years, even after moving from New Hampshire to western Massachusetts; once a month or so, I’d come north to meet with Syd and Managing Editor Robin Barone and pick up another large box of envelopes and mailers.
In 1982, when Robin decided to enroll in law school, they asked me if I’d be interested in becoming Managing Editor. Within a few months I’d moved to Lyme to take on the whole panoply of tasks involved in running a small but lively and growing nonprofit organization and producing a quarterly publication, as the sole person in the office. I did everything from bookkeeping and bill-paying and keeping minutes for meetings to preparing typed manuscripts for the designer and typesetter, distributing printer’s proofs to authors (always through the US mail), coordinating with the printer and mailing-list service, and continuing to read and correspond with aspiring and accepted authors, and tracking down artwork for the covers.
I learned so much. In those days, typeset copy came back from composition in long strips with waxed backing, which needed to be cut with an X-Acto knife and affixed to the blue-gridded templates created by designer Kate Emlen, who would review, adjust for positioning and typographical nuances, and approve my layout “dummies.” There were three desks and a work table in our office, and I would move from station to station for different duties. After two years, following my editing of the special issue Writers in the Nuclear Age (later reissued as a book Writing in a Nuclear Age), Syd asked me to become his Co-editor on the masthead, and first Mary Moore then Maura High served as part-time Managing Editors; Maura later became Co-editor.
My New England Review work was demanding and constant, but during those years I completed an MFA in the low-residency program at Warren Wilson College, and also worked intensively with the Vermont-based experimental troupe, Bread and Puppet Theater. For several summers I made a satellite office for New England Review in an old school bus at Bread and Puppet’s northern Vermont farm, where we produced the annual Domestic Resurrection Circus that attracted upwards of thirty thousand people for a climactic weekend of performances. By this time the journal had an affiliation with the Bread Loaf conference (and the ungainly moniker, NER/BLQ, which led my friends to jest that I really worked for the rockabilly band NRBQ). In 1986, as plans were being made to move the office to the Middlebury campus, I was invited to tour internationally with Bread and Puppet and decided not to accompany the journal to its new home, though Syd had built my position into the transfer agreement he’d created. I was worn out from reading thousands of manuscripts and wanted to see if I could focus on my own efforts as an artist.
Asked by New England Review’s present editor Carolyn Kuebler to choose a piece from my time as editor with special significance, I knew right away which one I’d name.
In 1983 we received in the mail a story called “While Mother Was Gone with 571” by Janey McCafferty, a writer none of us knew.
Looking back over the Summer 1984 issue, in which we placed McCafferty’s story first in the sequence, I’m enchanted to see the poetry, fiction, and literary prose published that season. Probably most journal editors feel that for each individual issue they are concocting a buffet, with contrasting and complementary elements, anticipating that varied readers will love different pieces, but aiming to bring together a tantalizing combination. That issue included extraordinary Vietnam poems by Yusef Komunyaaka, and poems by the now-deceased (but I hope not forgotten) William Dickey and Jim Simmerman. We featured a gorgeous and precise essay about Elizabeth Bishop by Michael Ryan, a strangely majestic story by Sharon Doubiago, and translations from the Marathi of Mangesh Padgaonkar, the Nicaraguan Spanish of Rosario Murillo, the Quebecois French of Anne Hébert, and the Cuban Spanish of Antonio Benítez-Rojo—and much more, each piece long considered, then chosen and placed. That issue’s cover has a mesmerizing picture of an indigenous Cuna woman in Panama with an albino “Moonchild,” taken by photographer Ted Degener.
There are many works of that I’m grateful and proud to have been part of bringing to the wider world, but the decision to publish Janey McCafferty’s story has made the biggest difference in my own life.
Readers will see that “While Mother Was Gone with 571” is taut, brisk, and hilarious. With a narration that’s audible and bright, in a voice as distinctive as Huck Finn’s or one of Grace Paley’s park ladies but with a teenager’s sass, the story blends shrewdly noticed details of time and locale with smacking dialogue and then climaxes with a rueful discovery. What commences as family slapstick in only a few pages darkens and chars, then concludes with a chill that’s hard to deflect.
After publishing McCafferty’s story, we decided to submit it for a Pushcart Prize, and for the nomination form I needed her date of birth. I wrote to the address we had, and heard back from her mother, since by then she was living elsewhere. The birthdate was within days of my own, and that November I sent her a birthday card out of the blue.
Thus began what has been an almost twenty-five-year pen-pal friendship. We’ve written well over a hundred letters to each other, for certain stretches more than a letter a week (there were times when we wrote every day): hundreds of sheets of notebook paper, and innumerable stamps. Sometimes we spoke by phone, but far more frequently we wrote letters. During these years we confided our work joys and woes, our romances and marriages, the births of our children, and the aging of our parents. One time when I was laid off from a job and felt sideswiped, barely able to speak, part of what got me through the rupture was writing Janey an eighteen-page letter.
But for the longest time, we’d never met—not till the 2008 AWP Conference in New York City, when we made our first in-person rendezvous, with long walks through the streets and bouts of laughter.
I can scarcely imagine being a writer without a friend who’s a writer, and this particular writer-friendship is especially complete. The serendipity of its beginnings is like any chance encounter: miraculous.
In my book of poems As When, In Season, there is a series in an invented form, nine portraits of women who have been my teachers in various ways, partly based on the imagery of the mythological Greek muses. As a child, I’d understood the muses to be not just inspirers of male artists, but virtuosos in their own right, in varied domains. For my evocation of Janey McCafferty and our epistolary friendship, I chose Thalia, muse of Comedy. Here’s the poem I wrote, “For Thalia.”
“While Mother was Gone with 571” by Janey McCafferty
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Jim Schley served as Assistant Editor, Managing Editor, then Co-Editor of New England Review from 1980 to 1986. In addition to his role at New England Review, Jim Schley has been a performer and tour organizer for several theater ensembles; managing editor and editor-in-chief for the book publisher Chelsea Green; executive director of The Frost Place museum and poetry center; and since 2008, managing editor of Tupelo Press. He has edited nearly two hundred books in varied genres and fields, and is author of the poetry chapbook One Another (Chapiteau, 1999) and a full-length collection of poems, As When, In Season (Marick, 2008). He lives on a land cooperative in Strafford, Vermont.
Filed Under: 40th Anniversary: From the Vault, NER Classics, News & Notes Tagged With: Janey McCafferty, Jim Schley
William Lychack on William Maxwell
NER 16.4 (1994)
Former Associate Editor William Lychack recalls receiving and publishing “A Brace of Fairy Tales” and “Two Light-Hearted Fables” by William Maxwell, from NER 16.4 (1994).
I’d written a fan letter to William Maxwell before I ever dreamed of editing at New England Review, but that job gave me permission to write to all the writers I loved. I remember asking Mr. Maxwell to please send anything to us—that nothing else would make me happy—and one day Toni Best had a manila envelope addressed to my attention from East 86th Street, New York, New York.
I didn’t even open it. I didn’t even take off my coat. I thanked her and ran to the old chapel across the street to be alone with whatever was inside. (How fitting to be in the quiet of a church, the moment still sacred all these years later to me.) I held my breath, made sure my hands were clean, and handled those typescript pages like they were the most precious documents on earth, such were my feelings toward this writer and his work.
Inside the envelope were the four fables you see here. In fact, that entire issue was, to my mind, truly inspired. William Maxwell, Marianne Boruch, Andrea Barrett, Miller Williams, Alice Mattison, Eileen Pollack, Terry Tempest Williams, Kate Barnes, Phillip Baruth, Sally Ball, Kate Barnes . . .
In his cover letter, Mr. Maxwell invited me to send him a story sometime, if the spirit moved me. I wrote and sent him a group of fables as a kind of response, and we started a correspondence that lasted the rest of his life. In one letter he wrote, in counsel, “Try to listen to your feelings as you would to the sound in a seashell, and then put them down on paper.” So simple, so difficult, such lasting advice that I have been carrying and aspiring toward ever since.
“A Brace of Fairy Tales” and “Two Light-Hearted Fables” by William Maxwell
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Photo Credit: Marion Ettlinger
William Lychack served as Associate Editor of NER from 1994 to 1995. He is the author of a novel, The Wasp Eater (2005), and a collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers (2011). His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and on public radio’s This American Life. He currently teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Filed Under: 40th Anniversary: From the Vault, NER Classics, News & Notes Tagged With: William Lychack, William Maxwell
Jodee Stanley on Michael Russell
Former Managing Editor Jodee Stanley introduces “Smoke on the Water” by Michael Russell, from NER 21.2 (2000).
My discovery of Michael Russell’s story “Smoke on the Water” has become an inspirational anecdote I like to share with my student editors at that point in the reading period when they are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of submissions. The majority of their slush reading is digital, of course, which is not how it was back at the turn of the twenty-first century. Try to imagine it, I tell them: I’m surrounded literal piles of paper, each manuscript packed neatly in a manila envelope so I have to slide the whole thing out and set aside the cover letter in order to get to the first page. Now imagine I have been doing this for an entire afternoon, trying to catch up on my own backlog of reading, just like the backlog you’re facing now in your Submittable account. I’ve read forty-five, fifty stories, maybe more. My eyes are exhausted. My head’s exhausted, and not a single one of these stories has stood out to me—not one has given me the “ping” in the nerves that tells me there’s something special here. I have one final, nondescript manila envelope staring at me—it’s the last one in the pile I promised myself I’d complete by the end of the day. And I’m thinking, can I do it? Should I do it? Maybe I’ve lost it, maybe I’ve worn myself out so much I wouldn’t even recognize quality writing now anyway.
This is the fear: that at some point your eyes are just running across the words, truly unable to distinguish good from bad.
But I’m a little bit type A—I like order, I need closure. So I sigh, and tell myself it doesn’t matter, because what are the odds of finding anything at this point? And I pull out the story, and read the first paragraph, fully prepared for disappointment.
There is a certain kind of writing—confident but not pretentious, authentic but not sloppy—that quietly grabs you and tugs you into its tale so effortlessly that you don’t even know it’s happening. “Smoke on the Water” is a gentle perfect storm of humor, empathy, and quiet desperation. I was three pages in to it before I realized that I was reading with a fully immersed pleasure—I had forgotten momentarily that I was at work in an uncomfortable desk chair, surrounded by discarded envelopes. I knew immediately that we would publish this story, and that it would forever be one of my favorites.
I have strong, fond memories of several of the wonderful stories we published during my days at NER, but this is the only crystalline memory I have of that breathtaking moment of discovery. But that one moment, that ping, is all it takes to remind myself that this is why we do it—this is the true joy of being an editor.
“Smoke on the Water” by Michael Russell
Jodee Stanley served as Managing Editor of New England Review from 1997 through 2003. She is currently Director of the Creative Writing Program and Editor of Ninth Letter at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her fiction, essays, and book reviews have appeared in journals including Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Crab Orchard Review, Hobart, Cincinnati Review, and others. Her essay on literary publishing, which originally appeared in the Mississippi Review, was reprinted in the anthology Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine (2013), and her fiction has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies and named to the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Stories.
Filed Under: 40th Anniversary: From the Vault, NER Classics, News & Notes Tagged With: Jodee Stanley, Michael Russell
Lexa de Courval on Carl Phillips
Former Office Manager Lexa de Courval considers the persistent questions and mysteries found in “Beautiful Dreamer,” an essay by Carl Phillips, from NER 35.2 (2014).
“Beautiful Dreamer” demands your attention in the very first paragraph. I admire how Carl Phillips chooses here to write about what is difficult and also very real, and in doing so he creates images we will respond to differently—we might feel uncomfortable, or charmed, perhaps even angry. Regardless, I find myself contemplating the Blue King, and mesmerized by the beauty of his descriptions.
Of the many treasured pieces we published during my years at NER, I am still drawn to this work because I feel that it is courageous, and it came to me at a time when I was questioning the world around me on a deeper level. Our lives are filled with experiences that require us to rely on our instincts while sorting through truth and myth. Recently I have reflected on what it means to be human today, and how social media has created another layer to living behind a mask. We are not always how we envision ourselves, and at times are warriors within our own lives trying to heal and find our inner beauty. Asking probing questions and taking risks can be like being on a battlefield, particularly with the unsettling challenges in our current world.
For decades I have adored poetry, spending hours rereading intriguing lines to ask myself: Have I missed the point? How do I know this isn’t my selfish interpretation of something I need to happen in this work? Phillips comforts me in this as he writes about his own poem “Beautiful Dreamer,” and in response to poetry.
For months after having written the poem, I in fact found it difficult to know with any certainty, if not the poem’s meaning, then at least the meaning to which the poem might be gesturing. Many poets write toward a chosen subject, but I’ve always been the kind who writes from a supposedly clear space into a space of surprise, that is, where I find myself surprised—and not so pleasantly surprised, more often than not, surprised instead into a heightened awareness of something troubling.
We are often troubled by the page and how real it can be; we know what our hearts feel, yet we sometimes question our innate being. Poetry can take us down a dark alley, but we are compelled to know what we will find there. Is it real or is it a dream? Are we hiding behind a disguise of what we imagine? This essay will challenge you to face your dreams and desires.
Was it Dante’s Inferno or The Iliad of Homer that first brought forth the expression to eat one’s heart out, which appears here in Stephen Crane’s rather bestial stanza of a creature eating his own heart? Is it power we seek when we punish or are punished—to claim one’s glory and revel in someone else’s doom?
I enjoyed Phillips’s selections from Shelley and Crane reflecting on power, and on how for some, punishment can often become as addictive as pleasure. “We can never really know another’s heart,” he writes. But if it is our own heart, we are compassionate, and “it’s better to eat of what we know.” He quotes from Crane’s Black Rider series:
“But I like it
Because it is bitter
And because it is my heart.”
Phillips brilliantly describes how a poem is an “interior dialogue we have with our other selves,” how we “write in response to being human.” “The poem is a form of negotiation with what haunts us,” he writes, “. . . insofar as what haunts us is, in part, who we are.”
I was the Blue King. I led the dance.
One might have chosen to skirt the encounter in the park with which Phillips opens this essay, yet he chose to look it in the eye and be mystified, and to attempt to clarify for himself what he really saw. Phillips challenges us to seek understanding in the world around us and be surprised. He continues with the subject of loss in “Untitled,” a poem by Lorine Niedecker. We feel emotion for the subject that is difficult to put into words—Paul / when the leaves fall. Is there beauty in mourning? We do not want to live our lives alone, but sometimes to be human is to feel very alone as we face death and hardships.
Phillips invites us into the work of these other writers, and into their stories, as he brings them into his own exquisite writing. Writers are compelled to record these times, and we relive each day through the histories of others as we create our own moving pictures. What is real and what is a dream, history or imagined, heroic or heartbreaking? Phillips encourages us to write, to seek meaning and confront the challenges in our everyday lives.
Having worked at NER and Bread Loaf for many years I have been continually inspired by authors like Carl Phillips and by their presence in my own life. I remember seeing John Ashbery, whose passages Phillips describes in his final page, surrounded by young scholars in a crowded room. I remember reading Seamus Heaney from a hefty Norton Anthology in college and then what an honor it was to meet him in person and receive his poem, “Du Bellay in Rome” for NER’s 34.2. I cherish the sound of Julia Alvarez lecturing on little children saving the world through medicine. People and place are life and these surroundings make up who we are and how we live.
Phillips leaves us with provocative questions: Are we living, dreaming, or haunted by the moment? What is beauty and how do we make peace with our own inner demons? Admittedly, I cannot know Shelley’s “Ozymandias” or the Blue King of “Beautiful Dreamer,” though I can come to know them through Phillips. While pondering these alluring pages ahead, I hope you will keep dreaming and be enchanted. And, are we not most beautiful while we sleep?
“Beautiful Dreamer” by Carl Phillips
Lexa de Courval was Editorial Assistant and then Office Manager at New England Review from 2009 to 2016. She is currently the Academic Coordinator at the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs at Middlebury College. She previously worked in local museum education programs at both Shelburne Museum and Henry Sheldon Museum, and for the Bread Loaf School of English.
Filed Under: 40th Anniversary: From the Vault, NER Classics, News & Notes Tagged With: Carl Phillips, Lexa de Courval
Cover photograph by Xan Padrón.
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Benjamin Franta
Benjamin Franta, a former research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University, where his research focuses on climate politics and the manipulation of science.
Global Warming’s Paper Trail
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Sep 12, 2018 Benjamin Franta points to evidence showing that the energy industry knowingly contributed to global warming.
Exposing Climate Change Obstruction
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Jul 25, 2017 Benjamin Franta exposes the fossil fuel industry’s well-funded infrastructure of pseudo-science.


For Burger Lounge, Product and Preparation Should Only Make It Look Easy
By Mariel Concepcion
Alejandro Campos, a cook at a Burger Lounge location in downtown flips burgers in preparation for the day. Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle.
BURGER LOUNGE
CEO: J. Dean Loring
Revenue: $39M in 2017 (approximately 15 percent increase projected in 2018)
Headquarters: Little Italy
Company description: A fast-casual restaurant chain that specializes in grass-fed beef hamburgers.
The acronym is K.I.S.S. Or, “keep it simple, stupid.” But, simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy. Just ask Burger Lounge’s President and CEO J. Dean Loring.
The Burger Lounge concept may appear rather uncomplicated — a 10-item menu that includes grass-fed burgers, fresh-made French fries and onion rings, shakes and salads that are made with locally-sourced ingredients and organic products. But Loring, who founded the company in 2007 with then-partner Mike Gilligan (who still has ownership), says it is this seemingly uncomplicated model that has made the business challenging.
This is so because using whole food ingredients is a lot more complicated than using pre-portioned or frozen products, he says, making it even more difficult when that exact method has to be replicated across a number of restaurants.
Burger Lounge has 25 locations, 24 of which are in California, including nine San Diego. There are eight Burger Lounges in Los Angeles, four in the Bay Area, two in Orange County, one in Inland Empire and at Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
‘We Love Simple’
“It is simple and we love simple,” Loring said, “but, making it right every time while utilizing whole food ingredients is our constant challenge.”
Despite its difficulties, this “simple” approach has been the bread and patty of Burger Lounge’s success. The company, which started with one location in La Jolla in 2007 and uses the tagline “the original grass-fed burger,” has since grown to 25 company-owned properties, 24 of which are in California, nine of those being in San Diego; there are eight Burger Lounges in Los Angeles, four in the Bay Area, two in Orange County, one in Inland Empire and one at Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. In 2017, the company’s revenue was $39 million, according to Loring, and is projected to grow by 15 percent in 2018 and by another 15 percent in 2019.
“The concept is to create a hamburger guests feel good about eating — a hamburger that is simple and crave-able but utilizes healthier ingredients like fresh, domestic, grass-fed beef and California-made cheeses made from organic, grass-fed milk,” said Loring about the Burger Lounge vision. He says the company also wants to provide vegetarians with a “proprietary” vegetarian hamburger along with clean salads and fresh side items. It’s just a 10-item menu, he says, but it is generally executed at a high-level.
Loring says Burger Lounge favorites are the “Lounge” burger, which has organic American cheese, onions, shredded lettuce, tomato, pickles and 1000 island dressing; and the “Classic,” which features organic American cheese, Organic ketchup, mustard, pickles and chopped onions. “The hamburger is a food art form,” said Loring. “It juxtaposes flavors, textures and temperatures. It’s visual and it is sensual.”
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Steven Price (writer)
Steve Price
Steven Price (composer)
Steve Price (rugby league)
Steven Price (born Colwood, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and novelist.
He graduated from the University of Victoria with a BFA in 2000, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA, in poetry.
He teaches poetry and fiction at the University of Victoria. He lives with his partner, novelist Esi Edugyan, in Victoria, British Columbia.
2007 Gerald Lampert Award
2013 ReLit Award for poetry
"Images", Canadian Literature #179: Literature & War (Winter 2003)
The Anatomy of Keys (Brick Books, 2006) ISBN 9781894078511
Omens in the Year of the Ox (Brick Books, 2012) ISBN 9781926829760
Into That Darkness (2011)
"The Architecture of Persona: Steven Price Writes Houdini", Open Loop Press
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Stephen, Steven or Steve Price may refer to:
Stephen Price (died 1562), MP for Radnorshire 1555
Stephen Price (born 1572), MP for Radnor 1601
Stephen L. Price (1960–1995), American visual effects supervisor
Steve Price (rugby league) (born 1974), Australian rugby league footballer
Steve Price (coach) (born 1977), Australian rugby league coach
Steve Price (broadcaster) (born 1955), Australian radio journalist
Steve Price (musician), American percussionist for the band Pablo Cruise
Stephen Price (aviator) (born 1893), English flying ace during World War I
Steven Price (writer), Canadian poet and novelist
Stephen Price (cricketer) (born 1979), English cricketer
Steven Price, a character in the 2011 film Abduction
Steven Price (composer), British composer, best known for scoring Gravity (2013)
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Steven Price (born 22 April 1977) is a British film composer, best known for scoring Fury and Gravity, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
Price's passion for music began early: a guitarist from the age of five, he went on to achieve a First Class degree in Music from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Following graduation, he went to work in the London studio of Gang of Four guitarist/producer Andy Gill, for whom he would program, contribute string arrangements, and play on albums alongside artists such as Michael Hutchence and Bono.
Price went on to work as a programmer, arranger, and performer with film music composer Trevor Jones. He provided additional music for projects such as Roger Donaldson's Thirteen Days; Stephen Norrington's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Frank Coraci's Around the World in 80 Days; the television series Dinotopia; and Tamra Davis' Crossroads, on which he was also the featured guitar soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Steven John Price, MNZM (born 12 March 1974 in Dalby, Queensland), is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international representative, he retired as Queensland's most-capped State of Origin forward. Price captained Sydney club, the Bulldogs (with whom he won the 1995 and 2004 premierships) as well as Auckland club, the Warriors.
Price grew up in Toowoomba, where he attended Harristown State High School. Price was spotted playing rugby league for the Newtown Lions club in Toowoomba and was signed to the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership club, Sydney's Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
During the 1994 NSWRL season Price made his first grade debut for the Bulldogs at Belmore Sports Ground on 3 July against the Balmain Tigers. It was a great rookie year for Price as his side finished the regular season as minor premiers on top of the ladder and eventually going on to reach the 1994 Grand Final which they lost to Mal Meninga's Canberra Raiders. The disappointment of losing the Grand Final did not last long for Price, as the following year in the 1995 season the Bulldogs reached their second consecutive Grand Final to come up against the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. Price was named on the starting line-up and as a headgear-wearing second-rower scored the first try of the game which the Bulldogs eventually won 17–4, giving Price his first taste of premiership victory. The experience of finals football so early in his career was a positive for Price as he established a reputation as an effective front rower/prop and second rower with a high work rate.
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Honoring Chief Willard Ackley
Born on December 25, 1889, in a traditional Ojibwe wigwam along the shores of what was once known as Dry Lake (now called Bishop Lake), Chief Willard Ackley is said to have been one of the last born into the old ways of the Sokaogon.
“The thing about Chief Ackley is, he wasn’t voted in as Tribal Chairman,” said Fred Ackley, Jr., Chief Ackley’s nephew, in 2015. “He was chosen by the people the old way – he came to us down through heaven, through the sky, and was put here as an Ogema (Chief).”
Chief Ackley is well known across Wisconsin and beyond. He worked tirelessly to help the people. “He spent much of his life fighting to establish the Mole Lake reservation. He saw what was happening to Indian people here. He saw how his people were forced to move off their land,” Fred said.
The Treaty of 1854, also known as the Treaty of LaPointe, established various reservations of the Ojibwe. Although this was to include the Mole Lake and St. Croix Bands, both were left without a land base, which placed people of each Tribe in peril. Oral history tells of corrupt government land and military agents using firewater and a language barrier to deny the claims of both Tribes.
Despite the seemingly insurmountable task, Chief Ackley continued his quest for repatriation for his people, and in 1939 the Sokaogon of Mole Lake were finally granted 1,680 acres of reservation land.
It is said that Chief Ackley was an expert in many Ojibwe customs, including the use of traditional plant medicines, hunting and fishing, and the creation of birch bark crafts. He taught many in the ways of the natural laws. He was also an ambassador of goodwill and advocated for the advancement of Indian people into the 20th century. To this day, his legacy lives on in our community.
“He was a true leader of the people. He represented the Great Spirit, and everything that’s good about Indian people,” Fred shared. “He taught myself and many others what it means to be a good person – to be a good human being. Through him our Tribe has survived.”


Parents or carers are a child's first and most enduring teachers and the home environment provides a range of informal learning opportunities and experiences that contribute to a child's learning and development.
Limited data is available on whether all WA children aged 0 to 5 years are provided with quality informal learning opportunities.
Reading books, singing songs, playing games and doing arts and crafts are all important play activities that parents can do with their children to support their cognitive, emotional and physical development. Providing children with a variety of enriching experiences outside the home is another important component of a stimulating learning environment.
Ensuring the best learning outcomes for WA children involves families and educators working together to support early engagement in learning.
Most WA families regularly engage in reading and learning-related activities in their home and community. The most common informal learning activity is reading books and telling stories.
In 2017, most parents (94.9%) engaged in reading activities with their children aged three years and older in the previous week, but fewer parents read to, or with, children younger than three years of age (79.6%).
Proportion of children with parental involvement in reading activities in prior week, in per cent, WA, 2011, 2014 and 2017
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014 and 2017, cat no. 4402.0 and Australian Bureau of Statistics custom report, June 2011
Since 2011, daily reading to 0 to two year-old WA children has decreased (60.5% to 56.5%) and the proportion of children with parents who did not read from a book or tell a story in the last week increased (19.5% to 21.4%).
Proportion of children aged 0-2 years with parental involvement by number of days last week parent(s) read from a book or told a story, in per cent, WA, 2011 and 2017
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, cat no. 4402.0 and Australian Bureau of Statistics custom report, June 2011
Measure: Informal learning
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Research shows that providing a safe, nurturing and stimulating home learning environment during the first three years of life is associated with better cognitive and social outcomes for children as they grow.1,2
The extent to which parents are engaged in their child’s informal learning can be measured by their participation in cognitively-stimulating learning activities and by providing learning materials in the home.
This measure uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Childhood Education and Care survey which captures data for 0 to two year-olds and three to eight year-olds.
Proportion of children aged 0 to 2 years with parental involvement in informal learning last week, in per cent, by type of activity, WA and Australia, 2011, 2014 and 2017
Read from a book or told a story
Watch TV, videos or DVDs
Assisted with drawing, writing or other creative activities
Played music, sang songs, danced or did other musical activities
Attended a playgroup
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014 and 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian and Australian Tables 19 Parental involvement in informal learning and Australian Bureau of Statistics custom report, June 2011.
Told stories, read or listened to the child read
Used computers or the internet
Watched TV, videos or DVDs
Assisted with homework or other educational activities
Played sport, outdoor games or other physical activities
Involved in music, art or other creative activity
In 2017, a large majority of WA parents participated in some form of informal learning activity with their children aged 0 to eight years in the week prior to participating in the survey.
The most common informal learning activity was reading books and telling stories in the home. Parents read or told stories to almost 80 per cent of children aged 0 to two years and read, told stories or listened to the reading of 94.9 per cent of three to eight year-olds.
The proportion of WA children with parents engaged in reading activities is marginally lower than in 2014 (and 2011) across both age groups. This reduction contrasts with the result across the rest of Australia, where reading activities for 0 to two year-olds increased and three to eight year-olds remained relatively static from 2014 to 2017.
Proportion of children with parental involvement in children's reading activities by age group, in per cent, WA and Australia, 2011, 2014 and 2017
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014 and 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian and Australian Tables 19 and 20 Parental involvement in informal learning and Australian Bureau of Statistics custom report, June 2011.
Among 0 to two year-olds, other common informal learning activities with parents in 2017 included musical activities (78.5%) and watching TV or DVDs (68.2%). Parents of children aged three to eight commonly engaged in sport or outdoor games (85.6%) and assisted with homework or other educational activities (84.3%).
Compared nationally, the proportions and types of activities were largely similar in 2017. Some of the differences evident are that WA parents of 0 to two year-olds were somewhat less likely to engage in physical activities (64.7% compared to 68.2%) or to attend a playgroup with their child (20.3% compared to 21.8%). WA parents of three to eight year-olds were more likely to engage in music, art or other creative activities (70.7% compared to 66.5% nationally) and less likely to use computers or the internet (50.5% compared to 55.4%).
Between 2011 and 2017, there has been an increase in the proportion of WA parents using computers or the internet with children aged three to eight years. Over the same period, there has been a commensurate decrease in the proportion of parents watching TV or DVDs with their children aged three to eight years. This perhaps reflects a shift in the technology, rather than any change in the underlying activity.
While the screen times discussed in this survey are related to learning activities, Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for the early years recommend no screen time for children two years old and younger, and no more than one hour per day for children from three to five years-old. For children from three to five years-old, the recommendation is that all of their screen time is educational.3 The recommendation increases to no more than two hours per day for five to 12 year-olds.4
Longitudinal data shows that 44 per cent of Australian children aged four to five years are spending more than the recommended two hours a day on screen-based activities.5 The same research suggests that older children who enjoy doing physical activities will spend less time in front of screens.6 This highlights the importance of engaging young children in fun physical activities to provide the foundation for a more active childhood. For more information on WA children’s health refer to the Physical health indicator.
Activities by family type and labour force status
Children from families experiencing socio-economic disadvantage, those with mothers who speak a language other than English at home and those who live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods can have fewer learning opportunities in the home.7 Further, research shows that family income and parental employment can impact a parent’s ability to provide a rich home learning environment for their young children.8,9
In 2017, parents of 0 to two year-olds where one or no parent was employed were less likely to engage in all informal learning activities with their children than parents in couple families where both parents are employed.
Proportion of children aged 0 to 2 years with parental involvement in informal learning, by labour force status of parents, in per cent, WA, 2014 and 2017
Couple -
both parents employed
one or no parent employed
*One-parent families
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014 and 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian Table 19 Parental involvement in informal learning.
* Employment data is not provided for one-parent families in the WA data.
Reading and telling stories to 0 to two year-old children in WA families where one or no parent is employed, has fallen significantly from 80.8 per cent in 2014 to 66.7 per cent in 2017; as has their engagement in musical activities which fell from 86.6 per cent in 2014 to 65.1 per cent in 2017.10
Significantly, in 2017 one-parent families were most likely to engage in reading and musical activities. In 2017, 94.2 per cent of one-parent families of 0 to two year-olds engaged in reading activities and 96.2 per cent engaged in musical activities. However, they were much less likely to engage in physical activities (35.6%) and to assist with drawing and other creative activities (40.4%).
Proportion of children with parental involvement in reading activities by age group and family type, in per cent, WA, 2014 and 2017
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014 and 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australia Tables 19 and 20 Parental involvement in informal learning.
Proportion of children with parental involvement in physical activities by age group and family type, in per cent, WA, 2014 and 2017
The graphs above highlight that activities in the home vary significantly by family type when children are 0 to two years old and become more consistent across family types once children are in the three to eight year-old category. This is in part because five to eight year-old children are in school and their activities are more uniform due to homework and other sports activities.
There is a strong association between reading to children and positive developmental outcomes.11 Parents’ reading and storytelling to children promotes the development of the brain, cognitive skills and children’s reading skills.12,13 Families play an important role in promoting a child’s literacy development and helping them build a strong foundation for future learning in school.14
Daily reading to two and three year-olds is also strongly associated with higher reading performance and numeracy outcomes in Year 3.15 ABS data shows that in WA in 2017, 56.5 per cent of 0 to two year-olds were read to on a daily basis. This is slightly lower than the 57.2 per cent of all Australian children aged 0 to two years who were being read to on a daily basis.
Proportion of children aged 0 to 2 years with parental involvement by number of days last week parent(s) read from a book or told a story, in per cent, WA and Australia 2011 and 2017
Did not read from a
book or tell a story
Source: Compiled from Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Australian, Table 19 Parental involvement in informal learning and ABS custom request for 2014 and 2018 WA data.
For children in the three to eight year-old age group, 46.8 per cent were being read to or told a story by their parents seven days a week in 2017. This is marginally lower than the national average (47.8%) and represents a significant decrease from the WA results for 2011 and 2014 (52.0% and 55.0%).
Proportion of children aged 3 to 8 years with parental involvement by number of days last week parent(s) read from a book or told a story, in per cent, WA and Australia 2011, 2014 and 2017
Source: Compiled from Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian and Australian, Table 20 Parental involvement in informal learning and ABS custom request for 2014 data.
Older children are less likely to be read to or told a story every day of the week if both parents are employed (46.5%) compared to families in which one or no parent is employed (52.1%).
Proportion of children aged 3 to 8 years with parental involvement by number of days last week parent(s) read from a book or told a story by family type and employment, in per cent, WA, 2017
Couple family
Total couple families
One-parent families
Total children
Did not read from a book or tell a story
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian and Australian, Table 20 Parental involvement in informal learning.
As well as providing educational interactions and activities, parents provide a stimulating home learning environment by making learning materials such as books, available at home.16 The number of books in a family’s home is positively related to a child’s reading ability.17 Research has found that the greater the number of books the greater the benefit, however as few as 20 books in the home still has a significant impact.18
In 2017, around 80 per cent of WA children aged three to eight years had more than 25 children’s books in their home. At the same time, 8.4 per cent of children aged 0 to two years had less than 10 children’s books in the home.19
Proportion of children 0 to 8 years by the number of children’s books in the home, by age group, in per cent, WA and Australia, 2017
10 to less than 25
25 to less than 100
100 to less than 200
Source: Compiled from Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian and Australian, Tables 19 and 20 Parental involvement in informal learning and custom request for additional data on informal learning of children aged 0-2 years (unpublished).
*Estimate has a relative standard error of 25 per cent to 50 per cent and should be used with caution.
Since 2011, there has been a significant decrease in the number of children with more than 100 books in the home. There has been a corresponding increase in the proportion of WA children with more than 10 and less than 100 children’s books in the home.
Proportion of children 0 to 8 years by the number of children’s books in the home, by age group, in per cent, WA, 2011 and 2017
Source: Compiled from Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, cat no. 4402.0, Western Australian, Table 20 Parental involvement in informal learning (aged 3-8 years) and custom request for additional data on informal learning of children aged 0 – 2 years (unpublished).
*Estimate has a high relative standard error and therefore has been suppressed.
To date, research and data has focused on the number of books in the home, yet there are other mechanisms for children to engage in reading activities. In particular, books can be borrowed from the library and/or electronic books can be accessed. No data is available on the number of children’s books borrowed from WA libraries or the number of books accessed through tablets or other electronic media. Research on the benefits or weaknesses of electronic books on children’s outcomes is still in its infancy.20
The Better Beginnings program is a WA-based family literacy program run by the State Library of WA which supplies families with reading packs. In 2016-17, 95 per cent of WA families with a newborn baby received a Better Beginnings reading pack which supports parents to read to their children from birth.21 Furthermore, since the program started, more than 30,000 reading packs have been distributed to families in approximately 100 remote communities across WA.22
The ABS Childhood Education and Care data is not available disaggregated by Aboriginal status. Data on early learning in the home among Aboriginal families across Australia is available through the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) conducted through the Department of Social Services.
LSIC data reports that in 2012, 34.9 per cent of surveyed Aboriginal children aged four to eight years had more than 50 children’s books in the home and 13.1 per cent had five or fewer. 84.2 per cent of Aboriginal children aged four to five years had been read a book by someone in the last week.23
Overall, the LSIC researchers determined that levels of parental involvement were found to be higher in parents with higher education levels, partnered parents, parents who were receiving an income from wages and salaries, and families living in urban areas.24 These findings mirror the impact of family disadvantage for the population more broadly and highlight that the high percentage of Aboriginal children who have lower academic outcomes is directly related to the higher proportion of Aboriginal families that are economically vulnerable and disadvantaged.25
The LSIC data cannot be directly compared with other data for this measure and WA data would differ from the national average due to the different demographic characteristics of Aboriginal children living in WA; that is, a greater proportion living in remote and very remote communities.
Rodriguez ET et al 2009, The formative role of home literacy experiences across the first three years of life in children from low-income families, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol 30 No 6.
Kernan M 2012, Parental Involvement in Early Learning: a review of research, policy and good practice, Bernard Van Leer Foundation and International Child Development Initiatives, p. 19.
Department of Health, Australia’s Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines – Frequently Asked Questions, Commonwealth of Australia.
Department of Health, Australia's Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines, Commonwealth of Australia.
Yu M and Baxter J 2016, The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2015 Report, Chapter 5: Australian children’s screen time and participation in extracurricular activities, Australian Institute of Family Studies, p. 102.
Ibid, p. 119-120.
Yu M and Daraganova G 2015, The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2014 Report, Chapter 4: Children’s early home learning environment and learning outcomes in the early years of school, Australian Institute of Family Studies, p. 77.
Warren D and Edwards B 2017, Contexts of Disadvantage, Occasional Paper No. 53, Australian Institute of Family Studies, p. xi.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2017, Cat No 4402.0, Table 19 Parental involvement in informal learning and Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014, Cat No 4402.0, Table 19 Parental involvement in informal learning.
Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research 2014, Reading to young children: A head-start in life.
Hutton JS et al 2015, Home Reading Environment and Brain Activation in Preschool Children Listening to Stories, American Academy of Paediatrics, Vol 136, No 3.
Kalb G and van Ours JC 2012, Reading to young children: a head-start in life, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, p. 24.
Yu M and Daraganova G 2015, The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2014 Report, Chapter 4: Children’s early home learning environment and learning outcomes in the early years of school, Australian Institute of Family Studies, p.78.
Bradley R and Caldwell B 1995, Caregiving and the regulation of child growth and development: Describing proximal aspects of the caregiving systems, Developmental Review, Vol 15, No 1.
Evans M et al 2014, Scholarly culture and academic performance in 42 nations, Social Forces, Vol 92 No 4, pp. 1573–1605.
University of Nevada, Reno 2010, Books in home as important as parents' education in determining children's education level, ScienceDaily, 21 May 2010 (website).
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Childhood Education and Care, Australia, Cat No. 4402.0, Western Australian and Australian, Table 20 Parental involvement in informal learning for years 2017 and 2014.
Reich SM et al 2016, Tablet-Based eBooks for Young Children: What Does the Research Say? Journal Of Developmental And Behavioral Pediatrics, Vol 37 No 7, pp. 585–591.
State Library of Western Australia 2017, Annual Report 2016-2017 of the Library Board of Western Australia, 65th Annual Report of the Board, Government of Western Australia.
Better Beginnings, Better Beginnings for remote Aboriginal communities (website), viewed 16 October, 2018.
National Centre for Longitudinal Data 2016, Parents involvement in education of Indigenous children, Research summary No. 5/2016, from Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children—Wave 5, Department of Social Services.
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2018, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2014 Report, 2.09 Index of disadvantage, (website).
Infants and young children who have been exposed to abuse and neglect are at a high risk of adverse outcomes over their lifetimes and quality informal learning opportunities are critical to their future wellbeing.
In 2017, there were 1,191 WA children in care aged between 0 and four years, more than half of whom (56.8%) were Aboriginal.1
No data exists that examines the participation of carers of WA children in care aged between 0 and five years in informal learning activities.
The Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS) is a longitudinal study on out-of-home care (OOHC) in NSW examining the developmental wellbeing of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years.2 The study collects data on how often caregivers engage in learning and play activities with children, as well as activities that children participate in outside of the home, such as playgroup and library activities.
Preliminary findings in this NSW study show that 88 per cent of carers of children aged nine to 35 months played with toys or games indoors at least six days in the past week. This was the most frequently cited activity. Yet only 48.8 per cent of carers read to children aged nine to 35 months from a book at least six days a week. This increased to 53 per cent of carers reading to children aged three to five years. A significant proportion (26.6%) of carers of children aged nine to 35 months either did not read to their child in the last week (prior to the survey) or only on one to two days. This decreased to 19.3 per cent for carers of children aged three to five years.3
For WA children in care, there is no data that examines the quality and frequency of their participation in informal learning opportunities with their carers.
More information is required on informal learning opportunities for children in care in WA.
Department of Child Protection and Family Support 2017, Annual Report 2016-17, WA Government p. 43.
Australian Institute of Family Studies et al 2015, Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study: Outcomes of children and young people in Out-of-Home care in NSW Wave 1 baseline statistical report, NSW Department of Family and Community Services.
Stimulating home environments and relationships are vital for nurturing the growth, learning and development of children. In the case of children with disability, parents and carers may also need to respond to the specific developmental needs of their child, seeking guidance or intervention from allied health professionals and obtaining support or respite as required.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics Disability, Ageing and Carers data collection reports that approximately 5,100 WA children (3.0%) aged 0 to four years have a reported disability.1,2
No data exists on the participation of children with disability in informal learning with their parent or carer.
Parents have an important role to play in their child’s developmental and educational outcomes but the extent and form of their engagement is strongly influenced by a family's social class, the mother’s education level and psychosocial health as well as single parent status and family ethnicity.1,2 Research shows that families experiencing disadvantage are less able to provide a cognitively stimulating home environment or to receive informal support from family and friends compared to more highly educated and working parents.3,4
Parents and caregivers who engage regularly in home learning can contribute significantly to their child’s learning and development.5,6 Longitudinal research indicates a direct causal effect from reading to young children and future schooling outcomes regardless of parental income, education level or cultural background.7 By reading frequently to their young children and investing in cognitively stimulating activities, parents have a decisive role to play in the developmental and educational outcomes of their children.
Parents and families require support, education and resources to help them create an enriching home learning environment for their young children.8,9 Mothers’ groups and play-groups,10 parenting classes and quality early education and care programs are all part of an effective approach to supporting parents to enhance children’s learning and development in the early years.
Improving the early home environment for children in vulnerable families can help overcome the effects of disadvantage on a child’s developmental outcomes.11
Intervention programs, such as visiting parenting support programs and programmed educational home activities, can improve parents’ ability to engage in behaviours that support their children’s early learning.12 An example of this is the Better Beginnings Family Literacy Program, a state-wide family literacy program that aims to support the literacy development of children throughout WA by providing parents with the tools and resources required to build language and literacy skills from birth.
At the same time, early childhood programs and services provided in welcoming and integrated settings, such as children and family centres, can be an effective way to provide parents with easier access to services and support.13
This indicator relies on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Childhood Education and Care Survey, which is only conducted every three years. The survey data is also not able to be disaggregated by region in WA or by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal parents and children.
Additional information is required on children’s screen time activities, in particular more data on educational versus non-educational screen time.
Warren D and Edwards B 2017, Contexts of Disadvantage, Occasional Paper No. 53, Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Kernan M 2012, Parental Involvement in Early Learning: a review of research, policy and good practice, Bernard Van Leer Foundation and International Child Development Initiatives.
Heckman J 2006, Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children, Science Vol 312 No 5782.
Kernan M 2012, Parental Involvement in Early Learning: a review of research, policy and good practice, Bernard Van Leer Foundation and International Child Development Initiatives, p. 7.
Pascoe S and Brennan D 2017, Lifting our game: Report of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools through Early Childhood Interventions, VIC Government.
Inouk E et al 2017, The Role of Home Literacy Environment, Mentalizing, Expressive Verbal Ability, and Print Exposure in Third and Fourth Graders’ Reading Comprehension, Scientific Studies of Reading, Vol 21 No 3.
Kalb G and van Ours JC 2012, Reading to young children: a head-start in life, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
Kiernan KE and Mensah FK 2011, Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment: The mediating role of parenting, British Educational Research Journal, Vol 37 No 2, pp. 317-336.
For more information on the benefits of playgroups, see Gregory T et al 2016, It takes a village to raise a child: The influence and impact of playgroups across Australia, Telethon Kids Institute.
OECD 2012, Encouraging Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Research Brief: Parental and Community Engagement Matters, OECD.
Moore T 2008, Evaluation of Victorian children’s centres: Literature review, Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
For more information on informal learning refer to the following resources:
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 2009, Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, Council of Australian Governments.
Yu M and Daraganova G 2015, The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2014 Report, Chapter 4: Children’s early home learning environment and learning outcomes in the early years of school, Australian Institute of Family Studies.


Coca Cola Amatil New Zealand to build manufacturing facility at Auckland Airports Business Park
Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand to build manufacturing facility at Auckland Airport's Business Park
Coca–Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ), the company that makes and sells Coca–Cola drinks and other leading beverages in New Zealand, is establishing a manufacturing operation at The Landing Business Park at Auckland Airport
The move will see Auckland Airport develop a purpose-built, high-tech, 12,000sqm warehouse to accommodate an addition to CCANZ’s manufacturing footprint.
Chris Litchfield, Managing Director of CCANZ, says the company is excited to partner with Auckland Airport on the development of this new facility.
“Auckland Airport has the ability to deliver a product which meets our specific requirements. We need to consolidate a number of operations into one, meaning that we require a location that ticks all the boxes in terms of connectivity, security and accessible amenities,” says Mr Litchfield.
“We also value the investment that Auckland Airport has outlaid to develop the area into a world-class business park. CCANZ is committed to producing the best quality beverages and this new facility at Auckland Airport will enable us to continue to achieve this and complements our existing manufacturing operations.”
Mark Thomson, Auckland Airport’s general manager property, says, “The move by CCANZ to Auckland Airport highlights the quality of our real estate products and our ability to tailor solutions to unique customer requirements.”
“We are focused on creating a business environment that caters to a wide range of users. Our extensive land-holdings allow Auckland Airport to tailor bespoke solutions, not only for traditional logistics activities but also for technology users and selected manufacturers, such as CCANZ,” continues Mr Thomson.
“What remains constant in all of our developments is our emphasis on creating quality buildings within a comprehensively planned and world-class environment, as well as providing outstanding amenity for our customers and their staff.”
“CCANZ is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific with a portfolio that consists of several leading household brands. We are thrilled that CCANZ has entrusted Auckland Airport as its property partner,” finishes Mr Thomson.
About The Landing Business Park at Auckland Airport
New Zealand’s leading industrial business park offers a world of limitless opportunity. World-class facilities and infrastructure set amongst expansive landscaped open spaces define The Landing – here you can design and build facilities that are uniquely you.
About Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand
Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ) is a fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturer which employs more than one-thousand people located at several manufacturing locations across the country. It produces, markets and sells a number of its own beverage brands, such as L&P and Pump, and is the authorised manufacturer and distributor of The Coca-Cola Company’s products in New Zealand. It has responsibility for a variety of beverage brands ranging from soft drinks to water, sports and energy drinks, juices, fruit products, coffee and premium beers.
It is part of the ASX-listed Coca-Cola Amatil Group, which is one of the top five Coca-Cola bottlers in the world, and also has operations in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
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Andrew Hewett – Coca-Cola Amatil


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New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat is the Democratic candidate for New York’s 13th Congressional District in the 2016 general election. He is currently the Ranking Member of the Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee, and Chair of the Senate Puerto Rican/Latino Caucus; he is also a member of the Environmental Conservation, Economic Development, Codes, Insurance, and Judiciary committees. Prior to becoming a state senator, he served in the New York State Assembly, and was the first Dominican-American elected to a state legislature when he first won his seat in 1996. In 2002, Espaillat was elected chair of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, and helped to reunite the group after years of division.
Throughout his tenure as a public servant, Espaillat has been a vocal advocate for protecting tenants, improving schools, and making serious, smart investments in economic development, job creation, and environmental protection. As state senator, he currently represents the neighborhoods of Marble Hill, Inwood, Washington Heights, Hamilton Heights, West Harlem, the Upper West Side, Hell’s Kitchen, Clinton, and Chelsea.
Senator Espaillat has sponsored and helped to pass landmark laws encouraging the construction and preservation of affordable housing, developing free legal services for tenants, giving 35,000 low-income day care workers access to healthcare and the ability to join the UFT, providing workers’ compensation for 40,000 livery cab drivers, and improving hospital translation services. Espaillat has also worked to protect landmarks, taking legal action to protect the Palisades when the LG Tower threatened to permanently mar its natural beauty. After the July 1999 blackout in Upper Manhattan caused financial damage to restaurants, bodegas, and other small businesses, Espaillat helped to secure an agreement from Con Edison to invest an additional $100 million in Upper Manhattan’s electrical infrastructure at no cost to ratepayers—and when customers were billed for expenses related to an Indian Point Energy Center shutdown, Espaillat fought back and got their money refunded.
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Real-Life Robinson Crusoe Has Been Living on Exotic Island for 40 Years
By Sumitra on May 1st, 2012 Category: News
Brendon Grimshaw is the world’s real-life Robinson Crusoe, and Rene Lafortune, his man Friday. The only difference is that Grimshaw actually purchased the island instead of being stranded there. The Yorkshireman purchased Moyenne, a half-mile-wide island in the Seychelles for £8,000 ($13,000) in the early 1960s. As a successful newspaper editor in those times, he was restless and seeking adventure, itching to start a new life of his own. Nine years after the purchase, he moved in to the island full-time, making it his permanent home. The 86-year-old is now credited for bringing out and restoring the beauty of the exotic island, encouraging birds and tortoises to make it their home too. He did have a lot of time to do it, as he has been living there for 40 years.
When Grimshaw first arrived at Moyenne, it had been abandoned for 50 years. The scrub was so dense and overgrown that even coconuts couldn’t fall to the ground. It was then that he was joined by an assistant, a Seychellois named Rene Lafortune, and together they worked tirelessly towards restoring the island to its former glory. The duo ended up planting over 16,000 trees by hand. 700 of these are mahogany trees that are about 60-70 ft tall. The other trees include palms, mango and paw-paw. They also built 4.8 km of nature paths. The giant tortoise, which was almost driven to extinction due to excessive hunting, has found a new home at Moyenne, thanks to the work of Grimshaw. He is now the caretaker of 120 giant tortoises. He also managed to attract about 2,000 birds to the island, starting with a meager 10 that he purchased from a neighboring island. At first they promptly flew back, but then they started to stay longer. Lafortune died in 2007, and since then Grimshaw has been the only permanent resident of Moyenne. He lives there in a small one-story wooden house that clings to the hillside and is furnished with African souvenirs. Outside his house is a sign that says, “Please respect the tortoises. They are probably older than you.”
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Grimshaw’s story was beautifully captured in his 1996 autobiography, “A Grain of Sand”. A documentary film with the same name was made, depicting life on the remote island. “The island gradually taught you what to do. It knows itself what it wants to do,” he says. Joel Morgan, Seychelles’ Minister of Home Affairs has hailed Grimshaw as a “modern Robinson Crusoe.” His work today is so well recognized that Moyenne Island was elevated to the status of a National Park in 2008. However, he insists that he wasn’t really doing any of this to convert the island into a National Park. “No, no, no! We were doing it to make it habitable for me,” he insists. Living all alone on an island, with only tortoises and dogs for company, one might wonder if he doesn’t get lonely. His answer is simple, he says he was lonely only “once in my life – when I was living in a bedsit in London. I was miserable then, but never here.”
Photo: A Grain of Sand the Film
Doesn’t this story make you want to just pack your bags and move to a deserted island living the craziness of the big city behind you forever? I wonder if I can get a broadband Internet connection on one of these islands… Anyway, this is definitely one of the most impressive we’ve covered in a while.
via National Post
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B2B startups share their secrets for acquiring enterprise customers
Conference Coverage, Conversion, Growth Hacking, Latest B2B News, Marketing, Sales, Top News July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 Shane Schick
For half a year, Michael Litt woke up to the same thing every morning: a series of wild goose chases to find his next enterprise customer.
The founder of Vidyard, the Waterloo Ont.-based provider of video marketing tools, would have spent the previous day pouring through a list of 85,000 companies which had been identified as having some kind of video hosted on their site. This had been culled from an original list of 1.8 million firms. Litt tried to find 100 companies every day that might be interested in his startup’s offerings. He would sent that list of 100 to Odesk, a freelance martketplace operating out of Manila, to find the best contacts at each firm. The names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses would be compiled as he slept.
“The conversion rate was miserably low,” Litt recalled in a session at Techweek Toronto on Thursday, estimating he and his team contacted about 25,000 prospects in a six-month period. “We got about 200 customers paying maybe five dollars a month.”
Needless to say, Litt and Vidyard have learned a lot since then, but customer acquisition in B2B remains incredibly challenging, especially for new market entrants. A good example is Sampler, a company that uses targeted campaigns and peer recommendations to boost the results of companies offering samples to customers.
“We’re going into these large enterprises and saying ‘Hey, the way you’re doing things is completely wrong,'” said Marie Chevrier, Sampler’s CEO. “There is quite a bit of education in the (sales) process. We can’t just walk in and assume we’ll get the sale.”
One of Sampler’s secrets, Chevrier said, was to enter as many public hackathons or innovation events hosted by large organizations. Sampler has entered six and won prizes in five, she said, but the biggest reward has been getting a faster route through traditionally slow procurement processes.
“It means that in some cases, you get to do a pitch to do 30 brands at once. It’s all about finding things that they need that they don’t have time to develop,” she said. “Sometimes innovation programs are just for PR, but that’s okay too, because you’ll still find customers.”
Influitive, which provides products and services to help turn a company’s customers into brand advocates, makes sure that educating customers has a guaranteed payoff. Mark Organ, the firm’s founder and CEO, said his team has prospects sign what they call an “upfront contract,” which stipulates the prospect will agree to buy something after having the technology and strategy behind Influitive’s offerings explained to them.
“Believe it or not, prospects really like that,” he said. “They don’t want to waste their time going through an endless buying process.”
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On the other hand, B2B startups need to demonstrate a strong ability to listen as well as to pitch, said Ali Pourdard, Co-Founder and CEO of Vancouver-based Progressa. Poudard’s firm works with consumers to help them get a second chance at credit, but that often involves working with enterprises and their collections departments. That’s a “negative space,” he said, which calls for a delicate and thoughtful approach.
“We used to go in guns blazing and tell them we have data and ways to reduce their costs,” he said. What Progressa learned, though, is that some enterprises — particularly telecom providers — are more focused on improving their net promoter scores and customer perceptions. “Now we’re focused on how to make their customer’s lives good and how their NPS is going to improve. We walk in a lot more . . . well, we’re confident but we don’t act like we know more than they do.”
Besides a generic “we don’t need this product,” the other big objection in B2B purchasing is price. Litt said Vidyard tackled that in part by removing pricing from its web site. That’s because competitors often pop up and, as he said, “try to price you to zero.” Instead, he said he and his team think of pricing as a constant work in progress.
“When you do talk to customers , you have to own that conversation,” he said. “I would almost kind of waffle on pricing and be confident about everything else. Nine times out of 10, you’re probably pricing it too low.”
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