Business
March 15, 2009
This weekend The Australian wrote up two property developers – Victoria’s Daniel Grollo and Queensland’s Ian Thomas – and their social entreprenurship. Government Scheme Not The Answer “A government-sponsored scheme will not ease the housing shortage. Affordable housing requires government […]
March 15, 2009
The idea of a Grey Nomad Jobs and Skills Register is slowly ‘getting out there’. We have two new expressions of interest – one from a NT cattle station and one from a property in Victoria’s remote far east Gippsland. […]
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 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 […]
February 21, 2009
Is Your Tourist Guide Qualified, asks GOA (Guiding Organisations Australia)? Today, International Tourist Guide Day, 21st February 2009, the World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations (WFTGA) is launching a campaign to encourage tourists around the world to question whether their […]
February 21, 2009
There is a huge amount of effort going on in communities and businesses everywhere to support those fighting the bushfires and those impacted by the fires. PWF has received a message from Jane at the Serendipity Lavender Farm about her […]
February 19, 2009
We hear from Peter Botsman of the Indigenous Stock Exchange (ISX) that Tahlia Burchill, a young Aboriginal girl from Mossman, may have succeeded in drawing Oprah Winfrey to Far North Queensland. Tahlia has worked at the Daintree Eco Lodge & […]
February 17, 2009
A new study of 12,500 Australian holiday-makers shows over half of us use online posts/reviews when choosing a destination or accommodation. The Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STRC) study lists the top four sites used by survey respondents: Trip Advisor […]
February 14, 2009
In 2008 Connecting Up Australia (CUA) commissioned Digital Business Insights to conduct and analyse a survey to benchmark the technology capacity of Australia’s nonprofits. Over 930 organisations of all types and sizes responded from all round Australia and the results […]
February 14, 2009
Lyn Beinat, CEO of ecoMaster, has contacted us to say several PWF readers have been in touch about the Green Loans Home Sustainability Assessor training and she asks us to update the info for greater clarity. Lyn says: “As the […]