Here we have the latest ‘round up’ from the Brimbank Learning Community through it’s newsletter “Celebrating Learning”.  Brimbank is a council area on the north-west fringes of Melbourne (Australia), and its current Community Learning Strategy can be obtained through the contacts provided within the Newsletter.

Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers or proposals relating to: the  eucen Conference in Bergen, the WCCI Conference on Education, the International Human Capital Conference in Selangor (see Conferences), the EAN conference in The Hague, the TIY Workshop on Youth Transitions in Mannheim, the VET&Culture workshop in Zurich (see Networks and Organisations), the International Spring School in Kerkrade (see Programmes) and the journal Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training (see Publications). And not to overlook: the vacancies at the Hertie School of Governance (see Networks and Organisations).

In November 2017, the beautiful Western BACE in Melton welcomed nearly 50 learning professionals to a practitioner’s workshop.

Welcome to December news, the final for 2017. This month brought us both good and bad news from Canberra. Finally, we had a positive outcome for the Same Sex Marriage Bill which was passed on 7 December. A great achievement for equality in this country and one, which demonstrates the power of a strong social movement to influence and change Australian law to make our country a fairer place.