February
February 28, 2006
A lot of hoo-haa but maybe the marketers were right? The proof of the pudding is definitely in the eating and the results of Tourism Australia’s new $180 million ad campaign are only just starting to come in. Obviously with […]
February 23, 2006
How they do it in the US You’ve really got to hand it to the Americans…….I have been reading in the Pro Bono Australia e-newsletter how the latest fundraising concept is ‘trading volunteers’ ie agreeing to switch volunteers with another […]
February 22, 2006
BUSINESS CLUB AUSTRALIA: MELBOURNE 2006 is the official program designed to help businesses find international opportunities through the Commonwealth Games, 15-26 March 2006. Membership is free and it is attracting unprecedented interest from the domestic and international business community. Since […]
February 22, 2006
A UK study into volunteering makes some astute recommendations to Not For Profits. As volunteers have more time demands than previously they have become more selective about how and where they donate their time. Fundraising volunteers are the single largest […]
February 22, 2006
A unique deal between Recherche Bay landowners, David and Rob Vernon, the State Government and entrepreneur, Dick Smith, has been agreed and the land will now ‘never be logged’. Environmental and local groups have been looking for such a solution […]
February 22, 2006
Team Bukkamalazir’s 2005 performance of 651 laps (835 kms) beat Battered Sav’s 2001 record of 643 laps – in November 2005. Both teams from Bendigo Secondary College were competing in the Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) section of the 2005 RACV […]
February 22, 2006
The NSW Government has shelved its controversial desalination plant, planning to tap underground water, and next month Brisbane will commence drilling to try and tap groundwater below its streets to ease its growing water supply crisis. Southeast Queensland’s dams are […]
February 22, 2006
Erica Dibden, from Tilba Tilba on the NSW south coast, stood out from a diverse field of 77 people that included dairy farmers, a sports dietician, a police officer, chefs, teachers, and food retailers. Erica and husband Nic own a […]
February 22, 2006
Caviar, which can apparently be sourced from many types of fish, is being extracted from farmed trout in SA’s south-east. Kalangadoo’s Peter Docking has perfected a method of extracting and processing caviar from his farmed trout. Peter uses the golden […]
February 22, 2006
More than 8000 illegal foreign fishing vessels were sighted in 2004-05 and only 280 were apprehended last year. An uncoordinated effort by a raft of Federal Government agencies – Customs, Australian Defence Force, Coastwatch, Fisheries, Immigration and Foreign Affairs – […]
February 21, 2006
I have obviously been living under a rock as only LAST week did I hear about the Australian Future Directions Forum where 90 “emerging young leaders” voted at a four day live-in forum to make “ending Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]
February 19, 2006
‘Celebrate our Cultural Diversity Week’ 17-23 March, coincides with the Commonwealth Games this year. It gives Victorian community groups, local councils and schools a tremendous opportunity to demonstrate the state’s rich cultural diversity to the world as multicultural communities across […]