Business
April 8, 2010
Australia, with its excellent sheep country and myriad of supportive farming communities, is fundamentally suited to producing high quality merino fibre. BUT, wool producers are in decline and many small communities are feeling the impact. We are in the 21st […]
April 7, 2010
Choice research tells us there are over 300 approved food additives in Australia. The food industry says they are necessary to prevent food poisoning and to extend shelf life etc while consumer advocacy groups say are unsafe. The Choice website […]
March 29, 2010
A new business – Village Futures Food – linking food producers with consumers wanting to buy fresh, seasonal produce direct from farmers in their region, has been in operation for 5 weeks now – in a modest way. What Is […]
March 28, 2010
“We must bring money back down to earth” says Woody Tasch on his Slow Money website. Last Century, Fast Money And NOW Woody continues saying: There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too […]
March 28, 2010
Australia For All Alliance – a hard-working community group made up of people with disabilities and their carers – now has a braille embosser which can emboss both sides of an A4 sheet of paper. Targetting Clubs And Restaurants Restaurants […]
March 24, 2010
PWF is happy to pass on this Special Bulletin from Tourism Queensland about the Category 3 Cyclone Ului that crossed the Queensland Coast in the Mackay/Whitsundays region in the early hours of Sunday morning, 21 March. Limited Damage Fortunately damage […]
March 23, 2010
Australian business leaders came together last Friday to launch the GenerationOne campaign which aims to address the problems faced by Indigenous communities. This campaign, hopefully, will have the power to go beyond politics. Perhaps it will be able to ‘lead’ […]
March 12, 2010
The Kinglake Action Network & Development Organisation, KANDO – PWF can relate to this acronym! – is running a water Expo this weekend at trhe Kinglake Temporary Village Community Centre. It’s FREE. RSVP Please Everyone is welcome but could you […]
March 11, 2010
A Brisbane-based company Spaceout.com.au, is giving seniors and retirees a new revenue stream – from their own backyards! Seniors who own their home can now make use of new online services to help them rent out unused space to people […]
March 10, 2010
If you’re in Melbourne on the weekend of March 20-21, 2010, Transition Town Maroondah invites you to attend a workshop about creating a local sustainable community beyond oil dependency. Transition Town Maroondah (TTM) is a grassroots initiative working to make […]
March 10, 2010
Xris Reardon from Third-Way Theatre tells us this 5 day course, April 7-11 at Borderlands in Hawthorn, Melbourne, will cover the foundations in a Forum Play and the structuring a Forum play: plot story character development improvisations the spectator interventions […]
March 3, 2010
It has been known for some years that potentially fatal superbugs resistant to all antibiotics are increasing. A reader has put us on to a December ’09 article in ‘Daily Health’, an e-letter published by the UK Health Sciences Institute, […]