Business
March 25, 2014
Radio National reported this morning that Australia’s first not-for-profit real estate agency opens today in Melbourne – a model that hopefully will be rolled out across the country. Homeground Services – one of Melbourne’s largest homelessness, housing and support agencies […]
March 7, 2014
Altin, from Borderlands Cooperative, ran a preliminary ‘co-op conversation’ at the Augustine Centre in Melbourne, late last year. One outcome was a desire to start running short, very low-cost workshops to introduce people in the greater Melbourne area to co-ops […]
March 5, 2014
The Social Enterprise Awards are open for applications until Friday 28 March. Do you know an amazing business doing great things that you’d like to nominate? About The Awards The Social Enterprise Awards are the national awards for Australian social […]
January 11, 2014
A friend recently recommended ‘Nutrition And Physical Degeneration’, the classic work on how what we eat shapes us …for better and worse, by American dentist Weston A. Price (1870-1948). This 1930s dentist discovered that dental caries and crowded, crooked teeth […]
January 10, 2014
Joy Newton from Mt Ive Station in South Australia’s beautiful Gawler Ranges has contacted us again in her search for someone/a couple(?) interested in helping for just a few hours a day with general cleaning/ caretaking on their diversified sheep […]
January 10, 2014
PWF has received a thank you for the help provided – via Newcomers’ Network – in our 2008(!!) article Skilled Migrants Not Finding Work. Ross Gull, from Immigration Direct, has recommended another helpful link which we’re happy to pass on […]
December 22, 2013
Ten years ago Nan Bray was Chief of CSIRO’s Marine Research Division in Hobart. She has since branched out’ into superfine wool, running 1600 Saxon Merinos in Tassy’s Southern Midlands. Her particular – radical? – method of wool production has […]
December 17, 2013
Gough Whitlam’s valedictory point in ‘The Whitlam Legacy’ has stayed with me. His advice is: “Never forget the primacy of parliament as the great forum for developing, presenting and explaining policy. If we develop, define and defend our policies thoroughly […]
November 26, 2013
Alan Greig, a Director of Social Business Australia, has advised PWF on co-ops and mutuals for years now, this social business model of collective self-help being one pathway to social impact. The West Belconnen Health Cooperative started in 2010 and […]
November 2, 2013
Joy Newton from Mt Ive Station in the Gawler Ranges contacted us some time ago regarding travellers helping out a little with a small tourist venture on their Gawler Ranges sheep station in exchange for a powered site etc. Unfortunately […]
September 30, 2013
With the launch of the new video-app ‘Cinch’ there is now no excuse for making bad videos. Cinch guides users through the filming and editing process with on-screen guidelines helping to record, trim, rearrange and add music. Cinch is a […]
September 29, 2013
This week’s Koori Times front page is reporting ‘Scullion’s Pledge, saying despite initial appearances to the contrary, new federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion is keen to hear from community members. He says: “What’s important is that we listen to […]