Collaboration …or not
October 2, 2011
Social enterprises are organisations that trade to fulfill their social or community mission and Nina Yousefpour from Queensland University of Technology has emailed PWF, asking social enterprises to participate in and pass on their web survey into strategic orientation of […]
October 2, 2011
Have you heard about Infoxchange Australia‘s new role for its social enterprise, GreenPC? Sorting & Recycling Old Technology Pilot For 10 years GreenPC has been re-manufacturing computers and laptops and making them available at low cost to health care card […]
September 25, 2011
Adam Bandt will host a public forum on Wednesday 28th September at 6.30 pm to discuss alternatives to mandatory detention and offshore processing for asylum seekers. “Behind Barbed Wire: Mandatory Detention and the Malaysian Deal” will be held at the […]
September 25, 2011
It is possible, as part of carbon farming, that breeding crops with deeper roots could stop CO2 increase ‘stone dead’ says the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming. What Is Carbon Farming? Carbon Farming is farming in a way that reduces […]
September 25, 2011
Kym Jerome has ‘discovered’ PWF and asks us to post info about work for tradies in Cooktown. Work Available There is a shortage of tradies to do reno work in Cooktown. Also needed is a person who has experience in […]
September 25, 2011
Lisa Devlin and partner Glen from Wooroora Station have emailed us saying: “We are 20 km from Ravenshoe on Wooroora Rd, the first turn right off Tully Falls Road. Wooroora Station is 50 000 acres, running a mixed (Brahman, Charolaise, […]
August 24, 2011
Victoria’s award-winning prevention and early intervention program Solving the Jigsaw picks up where society has failed. A Program For Teachers, Parents, Students By changing the culture of violence to one of well-being, Solving the Jigsaw helps Primary and Secondary kids […]
August 23, 2011
Farsighted community activists see BEYOND short-term politics and act accordingly, avoiding wasting precious funds as occurs when policies are imposed ‘top down’ without community involvement, understanding or acceptance. The Dialogue to Change program in disadvantaged country Victoria has helped Maryborough […]
August 23, 2011
“KIDS are the victims of a silly stand-off between government ministers…Country children are the innocent victims of an absurd political stand-off between Victorian Coalition Minister for Children Wendy Lovell and her federal Labor counterpart Kate Ellis.” Peter Hunt, The Weekly […]
August 17, 2011
The following email to PWF makes me wonder WHY we can’t get a measured discussion going on major issues like the carbon tax. WHAT is mainstream media delivering? WHERE is the Climate Commission? Surely complexity is a lame excuse? Tim […]
August 12, 2011
Dr Catherine Crock knows how scary hospitals can be for kids. For ten years she has worked at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) where she is in charge of the general anaesthesia list for painful procedures in children with cancer. […]
August 6, 2011
Giles Parkinson reports the following on Climate Spectator. “Hidden away in a government gazette this week was an announcement that China would introduce a national feed-in tariff for solar energy. It took a day or two for the significance to […]