Business
June 30, 2011
Moira Lanzarin (nee O’Brien) and Clair O’Brien are after a babysitter, from 1 July – 7 July approximately, at Numul Numul Station, Roper Highway, Mataranka, during mustering. You can be part of the family and activities. About The Babysitting There […]
June 27, 2011
Light up your winter with a visit to the ‘Colours Exhibition’ at The Granary Cafe, 2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, says Maureen Ryan of Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, a NonProfit that links young artists with the broader community in Melbourne’s west. The […]
June 24, 2011
Apparently our wonderful supermarket duopoly has very narrow fruit and veg specifications. We consumers must not be offered ‘ugly’ fruit and veg. It must be the right shape, colour and look! A demanding lot, aren’t we???? The question is, what […]
June 24, 2011
Hepburn Wind is Australia’s first community-owned wind farm and in central Victoria it has just begun exporting energy to the electricity grid. Congratulations! Premier’s Sustainability Award For Community Engagement There has been considerable interest in the project from universities and […]
June 19, 2011
This info on the ‘Cities Most Prepared For Climate Change’ I found on Fast Company, collated by Ariel Schwartz. Very interesting to see the local government action around the world. As more than half the people on Earth now live […]
June 6, 2011
Sarah has heard about PWF’s Grey Nomad info exchange and she tells us there are two positions available for a couple on a central west Queensland cattle station. About Work Available On The Station The two positions available for a […]
June 3, 2011
A central Victorian PWF reader tells us a well-meaning 2 May media release from the Powerline Bushfire Safety Taskforce, about community info meetings, only reached her yesterday, 1 June. She is concerned Gippsland and Mitchell Shire survivors will have been […]
June 1, 2011
Social Traders and the Melbourne Business School’s Asia Pacific Leadership Centre will host a one day forum aiming to bring together people who manage and invest in social enterprises and anyone who is interested in learning about or helping in […]
May 29, 2011
London-based global economics magazine ‘The Economist’ – has praised our successes but damned our political leaders for failing to make the most of the China boom. Survey Of Australia SOME POINTS MADE: The political leaders…are perhaps the least impressive feature […]
May 29, 2011
World Challenge is a global competition to identify and reward people and groups that bring economic, social and environmental benefits to their local communities. It is run by the BBC World News and Newsweek, and Shell. BBC presenter and sustainable […]
May 11, 2011
A reader has passed on this excellent website with info on how to calculate all sorts of emissions. It says: “The time to act for the environment is now. We can no longer go on pretending that we aren’t personally […]
May 11, 2011
Jamie Packer, Australian media and casino mogul, has learnt about tourism through his business experiences in running Crown Casino, which also owns the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth. Crown is one of our biggest tourism destinations Accountability For Achieving Defined […]