March 8, 2006

Connecting Up 06 early bird bookings close soon

You can pay Early Bird rates & attend Connecting Up 06 for just one day The national conference “Connecting Up 06 – Changing the World with Technology – the Digital Means to the Social End” will be held on May […]
March 8, 2006

Saving Kaniva – the business detail

Does your town face a similar dilemma? Tony Gill, Director, Co-operative Development Services Ltd gives the business detail of how Kaniva – the last Victorian town before the SA border on the Western Hwy – saved their petrol station: In […]
March 6, 2006

Community/employee buyout info

Employee Buyouts guidebook revised & freely available Alan Greig from the not-for-profit Mercury Centre (PWF Bulletin 46 – Buyouts can preserve key community assets and facilities) has emailed us saying their revised guidebook can now be dowloaded from the Mercury […]
March 2, 2006

Learn how your weaknessses can be your greatest assets

Involvement with the PWF project means meeting interesting AND passionate people. Claudia Doria is one of these people – author of ‘The Truth about being an International Student’, founder of www.globallyunited.net and now a personal coach. Claudia’s passion is seeing […]
March 2, 2006

The Queensland outback some to town & TQ goes overseas

Queensland’s outback came to Brisbane in late February for the inaugural Outback Week – a series of outback festivities to highlight holiday opportunities in the region. The program kicked off with an Outback Fair at South Bank’s Piazza, followed by […]
March 2, 2006

Potato tours & ‘macabre’ tours lead bushfire regions’ tourism recovery

Victoria’s Gippsland and Grampians regions are popular tourism destinations and the bushfire recovery promotional period is well underway to encourage visitors to visit their favourite places as MUCH is intact and it is more ‘sensitive’ to visit rather than stay […]