Business
April 23, 2013
Joy Newton has contacted PWF about needing help urgently for a couple of hours a day with cleaning/hospitality. Joy writes: “We have Mt Ive sheep station in the Gawler Ranges, outback SA, diversified with a small tourist venture, using our […]
April 3, 2013
Twelve Indigo Shire residents in Victoria’s lovely north-east are starting up an incredibly old but also an incredibly new idea – Voice for Indi – kitchen table talks to thrash out grassroots problems from which information can be passed on […]
April 2, 2013
About 18 months ago PWF posted an article about democracy - NOT politics - at work in Nowra. Graeme Gibson, the convenor of that forum has now written and self-published a book, Beyond Fear And Loathing'on local politics and community activism.
April 2, 2013
Richmond Heath is a physiotherapist and a passionate Trauma Releasing Exercise (TRE) instructor. Recognising the value of TRE, Richmond brought the initiator of this neurological approach to stress relief – Dr David Berceli – to Australia and has continued to […]
March 12, 2013
Business Consultant Peter Switzer makes an excellent point about staying in touch with customers to optimise business outcomes. He says that waiting for government help really is a mug’s game. A far better way to induce extra business growth for […]
February 27, 2013
Social enterprises can be described as organisations that create, support, nurture and empower businesses that are shifting us to a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world. Small Giants was founded in 2007 to do just this.
February 27, 2013
Victorians can use the Local Harvest website, winner of a 2012 Green Lifestyle Award website to find local food nearby. You just enter your postcode to find farmers’ markets, farm-gate produce, local food swaps, community gardens, organic retailers… Why should […]
February 26, 2013
Michael Short, editor of The Zone, has profiled Braeden Lord of Aussie Farmers Direct, a businessman supporting Australian farmers and manufacturers, who now supplies – free of charge – 130,000 households in direct competition with Coles and Woolies. Michael writes: […]
February 26, 2013
On 6 March, at a business breakfast in Melbourne, international guest speaker Peter Hunt, CEO of Mutuo – UK peak body for mutuals/co-ops – will discuss the role of co-ops in Australia’s new economy with Michael Short, editor of The […]
February 26, 2013
Demographer Bernard Salt, writing in The Australian, quotes Professor Leon Sterling, President of the Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology saying: “Not enough people are taking ICT qualifications…I think there’s a lack of understanding of what ICT […]
February 7, 2013
The December 2012 ABS stats show that overseas visitors were up 7% in December. In 2012 Australia had 6.1 million visitors – 4.6% annual growth – which Tourism Australia’s Andrew McEvoy calls a ‘very creditable performance’ given fierce global tourism […]
February 3, 2013
Following is a ‘guest post’ packed with info by Brent Hardy – http://www.extraspace.com/ – writing about taking an office building ‘off the grid’. Twenty years ago, the thought of an office building without a monthly power bill would have seemed […]