Collaboration …or not
June 22, 2010
PWF is right behind GetUp’s Mental Health Campaign. What GetUp says: “I lost my beautiful youngest daughter to suicide 3 years ago… She was not referred on to an appropriate service after suffering post-natal depression… She had 3 children whom […]
June 21, 2010
PWF posted Welfare To Mainstream Jobs – Chewyings Bridging Tool two years ago and now Chewyings Lawn and Horticulture (CLH) has been short listed as a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards. About Chewyings Lawn & Horticulture CLH is a […]
June 21, 2010
Tomorrow, 22 June 2010, Protectors of Public Lands Victoria (PPL Vic), the Green Wedges Coalition and Planning Backlash will hold a protest rally at 12.45 for a 1pm start on the steps of Parliament to say ‘No’ to VC67 Planning […]
June 18, 2010
Tom Peters, American business management/problem solving guru and best-selling author, born in 1942, tweets now. The
June 17, 2010
Queenslander Dr Ian Plowman’s Cooperative Conversations that achieve grassroots goals captured PWF attention back in 2008. On 19-23 July in Melbourne CBD, Ian together with Roberts Evaluation will run a workshop series covering program design and planning, evaluation, and productive […]
June 15, 2010
The awful images of oil soaked pelicans off the Louisianna/Alabama Gulf Coast have horrified us all…Giapo, an Auckland-based Gelato store, is doing something about it. It has launched a ‘BP Oil Spill’ flavoured gelato with the idea of donating $1 […]
June 10, 2010
PWF has been contacted by Garry who is a ‘would be’ grey nomad. He is looking forward to both Australian and European travel from September 2010 onwards. About Garry Garry describes himself as: “an active 75 year old who has […]
June 9, 2010
There will be rallies in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide, Darwin and many regional areas to protest women in full time paid work still earning 18 per cent less on average than men, which equates to $1 million less […]
June 8, 2010
Four years ago PWF asked if camel milk might be a business opportunity for Indigenous communities and if there were any entrepreneurs interested in ‘farming’ some of our 600,000 feral camels. Queensland camel expert Paddy McHugh and an Israeli camel […]
June 8, 2010
Three years ago PWF wrote about two young Melbourne entrepreneurs taking on the supermarket duopoly. As Aussie Farmers Direct they won 6500 customers in 12 months and set up a network of ‘franchised milkmen’. The milk in Australia is predominantly […]
June 8, 2010
So-o-o-o many people, intelligent, well-informed, well-meaning people – across all sectors – have been saying for a long time now that ‘one size does NOT fit all’ and certainly does not fit all Indigenous Communities. With the schools economic stimulus […]
June 7, 2010
SMH Business Day reports that in Bondi median house prices are are running at well over $1 million, and units at more than $500,000. Housing is not affordable or obtainable for many Australians, BUT… Schemes in the US similar to […]