Business
June 18, 2010
Tom Peters, American business management/problem solving guru and best-selling author, born in 1942, tweets now. The
June 15, 2010
The awful images of oil soaked pelicans off the Louisianna/Alabama Gulf Coast have horrified us all…Giapo, an Auckland-based Gelato store, is doing something about it. It has launched a ‘BP Oil Spill’ flavoured gelato with the idea of donating $1 […]
June 8, 2010
Four years ago PWF asked if camel milk might be a business opportunity for Indigenous communities and if there were any entrepreneurs interested in ‘farming’ some of our 600,000 feral camels. Queensland camel expert Paddy McHugh and an Israeli camel […]
June 8, 2010
Three years ago PWF wrote about two young Melbourne entrepreneurs taking on the supermarket duopoly. As Aussie Farmers Direct they won 6500 customers in 12 months and set up a network of ‘franchised milkmen’. The milk in Australia is predominantly […]
June 7, 2010
SMH Business Day reports that in Bondi median house prices are are running at well over $1 million, and units at more than $500,000. Housing is not affordable or obtainable for many Australians, BUT… Schemes in the US similar to […]
June 3, 2010
Connecting Up Australia has provided a short list of South Australian Farmers’ Markets in their SA Community e-news and they’re asking for info about about Community Kitchens in SA. Connecting Up provides community services and events information and is a […]
June 1, 2010
For too long tourism and education have operated in their respective silos with too little cooperation, marketing, and service provision, says Matt Hingerty of the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC), and new research shows that this demarcation between the two […]
May 26, 2010
Tourism Research Australia’s latest International Visitors Survey has reported an increase in backpacker numbers to Australia, a longer length of stay and larger average spend in 2009 compared to 2008. For the year ending December 31 2009, 570,000 backpackers visited […]
May 23, 2010
The Chairman of FISH – Foundation for Sustainable Indigenous Housing – asks is there info such as a printed booklet/handout for Indigenous families that points out the positive and negative aspects of home ownership in remote communities? WA Government Considers […]
May 22, 2010
Victorian holidaymakers are being scammed by aggressive telemarketers who don’t like to take ‘no’ for an answer OR accept cancellations. Consumers are being warned about buying discount travel and accommodation packages from telemarketing companies. PWF has received a first hand […]
May 22, 2010
South Australia’s thirteenth Living Artists Festival (SALA), the largest visual arts festival in Australia, is coming up and online registrations close soon, on 24 May 2010. About SALA SALA enables South Australian artists of any age, ability and medium, to […]
May 22, 2010
The following is valuable tourism research on important topics. It is available for download through the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) online bookshop www.crctourism.com.au/bookshop. The links provided go to the latest reports and their executive summaries. The Latest Reports […]