October 16, 2007

Fungi Help Soil Hold Water In Drought

A Weekly Times article – October 10 – about Balranald farmer, Tim O’Halloran, who believes he will harvest a good wheat crop this season, though neighbours have already put livestock in on poor crops, led me to www.lawrieco.com.au. People are […]
October 15, 2007

Jobs NSW

TEAM LEADER Full Time. Grade 4 + Salary Packaging. Disability Organisation in the Bankstown Area.Click here for details and to apply online COMMUNITY EVENTS COORDINATOR Salary: $56,000 p.a. plus super plus flexitime/ 19 Day month SPV 60/07. Leichhardt council. Full […]
October 15, 2007

Jobs Vic

TEAM LEADER CASE MANAGEMENT AND TEAM LEADER INTAKE AND RESPONSE Southern Metropolitan Region . Disability Client Services . Salary $60,307 – $68,424 (+ Superannuation) . Full time, fixed term for 12 months . Reference number DHS/STH/122263 . 2 vacancies are […]
October 15, 2007

Jobs QLD

PATHWAYS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Relationships Australia (Queensland) .not-for-profit organisation. $46,287 pro rata. Part Time. Strathpine, QLD 4500. Click here for details and to apply online. BEQUESTS OFFICER (part time) St Vincent de Paul Society. $51,000 – $54,000 neg. pro rata. […]
October 15, 2007

The High Cost Of Low Prices…Wal-mart Film

The Ethical Consumer Group holds meetings monthly at Nick Ray’s place in Footscray, Melbourne. This Wednesday, 17 October, they are screening ‘Wal-mart – the high cost of low prices’. About The Gatherings These nights are a casual meal, movie and […]
October 14, 2007

Traditional Shopping Strips Fighting Back in Vic.

CBCV Community Business Centres Victoria Inc. is a non-profit group of business groups and individuals, who rely on membership to network and share ideas, contacts and opportunities for improving strip shopping centres. Membership, they say, will benefit your business, your […]
October 13, 2007

Claiming Back Free Speech And Public Debate

Back in June PWF posted an article about SPUNC – the ‘newish’ Small Press Underground Networking Community. One goal important to ‘culture consumers’ is the desire to ‘improve the sector’s engagement with the public, with a specific focus on collaborative […]
October 12, 2007

Rick Roser’s Aboriginal Art and Culture Resources Kit

Rick Roser is an Aboriginal artist from Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. He runs ‘Aboriginal Events Management’, an Aboriginal Culture consultancy and has presented thousands of art and culture workshops to schools, TAFEs and universities. Rick is currently promoting his Aboriginal Art […]
October 11, 2007

Retriever And Sydney Water’s ‘Love Your Garden’ Program

Retriever Communications, working in cooperation with Sydney Water, has released a You Tube video about the field inspection program – Love Your Garden. Each garden has its own watering needs and these can now be assessed to reduce water ‘wasted’ […]
October 10, 2007

Sustainability Streets…The Village Is Growing

Local people, local communities, local action…the Sustainability Street program was designed and developed by Vox Bandicoot, who for some 20 years now have been developing sustainability programs for local communities, schools and workplaces. The central idea is that ‘It’s a […]
October 9, 2007

Quality Farmed Fish, Wild Caught Fish…Some Issues

A year ago PWF asked if fish farming was the way of the future, so we were interested to see, in the latest FisheNews Aquaculture Newsletter, reports on Barramundi farms taking greater market share and on farmed fish winning aquaculture […]
October 8, 2007

Toyota, GM, Hyundai…Hydrogen Fuel Cells Update

There IS progress with the development of fuel cells. For really good, clear info and what you can do to help visit www.fuelcells.org or email Jennifer@fuelcells.org for their newsletter. Following is a tiny bit of what is being reported around […]