July
July 17, 2006
If you’d like to practice and test adding a comment to a PWF article you can use this post. Just follow the instructions below. Under all PWF blog articles, the question “What do you think?” appears in purple. If you […]
July 17, 2006
A giant grassroots whiteboard? The PWF concept has come from recognising the potential magnitude of the small business and community group sector, with its enormous creativity, energy and concern for passing on to the next generation all the good things […]
July 13, 2006
Ethanol & diesel – what are the facts? The Treehugger website has provided some facts and about ethanol and biodiesel, as well as a heap of web contacts for further investigation if you feel so inclined! They leave it up […]
July 13, 2006
Entries close 31 July 2006 – prizes worth $30,000 JPG Media has this year organised the ‘Inaugural HBB Awards’ with The Leader newspaper as the major sponsor. There are $30,000 worth of prizes to be shared between the five category […]
July 12, 2006
Is service the key to a night of fine dining? Restaurant and Catering SA chief executive, Sally Neville, is quoted in Hospitality magazine saying going out to eat now is more than ‘just having a bite to eat’. The dining […]
July 10, 2006
ARE there problems with Opal? The Weekend Australian reported that after an 11 month campaign by the federal Department of Health to make Opal the only fuel available in central Australia some large roadhouses – within 2 hours drive of […]
July 8, 2006
Govt to spend $4million supplying Opal fuel to petrol stations The National Indigenous Times reports lobby group The Opal Alliance welcomes Health Minister Tony Abbott’s July 6 announcement that the government would spend $4 million a year supplying Opal fuel […]
July 7, 2006
Ethicist says our our laws don’t protect farm animals A PWF reader has written to us about the treatment of pregnant pigs saying that Australian ethicist Professor Peter Singer, of Animals Australia, and author of ‘The Ethics of What We […]
July 6, 2006
New academy to address Australia-wide chef shortage Hospitality Magazine passes on the good news that Melbourne’s William Angliss Institute of TAFE has officially launched its new Angliss Culinary Academy – a facility that will have the capacity to train up […]
July 5, 2006
National Tour Guide accreditation is now available Seasoned travellers know that standards in tour guiding can vary widely. Anne Bottomley of Guiding Organisations of Australia (GOA) has kindly let PWF know about the new national tour guide accreditation program just […]
July 4, 2006
A new opportunity for the WA’s Wheatbelt? The Wheatbelt Area Consultative Committee (ACC) had an amazing report in their June 06 Newsletter, about Ironmaking possibly helping Australia tackle salinity; renewable energy; greenhouse emissions. For more than 3000 years the world […]
July 2, 2006
A $1.5b annual tourism market & a tool to access it A recent Report shows many Australian tourist operators don’t know how to make their venues accessible and inviting to people with disabilities going on holiday. Some relevant statistics Australian […]