March
March 11, 2009
Today The Age reports that the Victorian Government will put $100m towards a solar energy plant condemned by some of its own experts as probably doing nothing to encourage and increase the take-up of solar panels – unlike the 10 […]
March 11, 2009
Tourism Queensland has published some interesting info about their international visitors at this very difficult time for the industry. TQ says: “The latest International Visitor Survey results for the year ended December 2008 have revealed that foreign backpackers and students […]
March 10, 2009
Don Ashby of Mallacoota in Victoria’s beautiful far east – has raised a most important issue for remote Australian communities. Don writes: ” Mallacoota, like many remote and isolated communities, has a very unstable power supply and the supply is […]
March 9, 2009
Andrew Campbell, a Victorian forester with professional training in fire behaviour, fire suppression and fire management with experience as a ‘sector boss’ in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires has set down some very clear thoughts about life after the Victorian […]
March 5, 2009
Many local businesses in Nillumbik Shire – in Melbourne’s lovely, leafy fringe – have been badly affected by the fires. The Council is putting in place a number of measures to assist local business directly and indirectly affected. Nillumbik Business […]
March 2, 2009
While we have both fires and floods damaging crops, celebrity chefs and the Federal Government have teamed up to ask shoppers to buy local fruit and vegetables even though the produce may be more blemished than usual. Leading Sydney chefs […]