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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Hanging in the Balance
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'The Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (VCAA) recently achieved gender parity in its 2018 VCE English and English as an Additional Language (EAL) text list,which determines which texts Year 12 students in the state will study. Out of the 36 texts on the list 19 are written by women. The announcement is indicative of a broader move towards more equal gender representation among books studied in the class room but it would be a mistake to assume there is no work left to be done.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Books + Publishing vol. 96 no. 4 May 2017 11199673 2017 periodical issue

    'Inefficiencies in the supply chain, the importance of data and competition for readers' leisure time were big issues raised at this year's leading Edge Books industry forum.

    Hopes for an improved supply chain seem to rest of TitlePage, which the Australian Publishers Association is keen to develop, but which is likely to require substantial investment from publishers and booksellers. Changes are already afoot in distribution, with Penguin Random House consolidating its two UBD distribution centres in Melbourne and changing its freight partner from Toll Group to TNT Australia to 'improve service levels and speed to market'.' (Editorial)

    2017
    pg. 6 Section: Junior
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