Collaboration …or not
September 6, 2009
Big Picture founder Elliot Washor says “There is no teaching, only learning. You have to focus on the learning. That’s what you’re there for.” Education is fundamentally about “kids pursuing their passions, and kids finding their interests, it drives the […]
September 5, 2009
FYI GetUp is collecting signatures – to which you may choose to add yours – to support Indigenous people wanting to save their remote homelands. They already have 1800 signatures and the number is growing. Exactly What Is Going On? […]
September 4, 2009
Windows of the World is an amazing sounding event that will run in Melbourne’s Fed Square 12,13 and 19 September. It will “provide a window through which we can see other cultures and they can see us. Understanding and appreciating […]
September 4, 2009
When her baby daughter was suffering asthma and eczema Sandra Davies discovered Dominant eco-cleaning products at the Whittlesea Show – on Melbourne’s outer fringe. She was told to take a free sample of laundry powder and try it. That was […]
September 4, 2009
In drought stricken Victoria farmers are doing TAFE courses to find new career paths and to supplement on farm income. Based at Indigo Shire Council in the NE, Rom Reillly, Rural Skills Connect (pdf file) Project Manager, has been instrumental […]
September 2, 2009
I love finding succinct independent thinking about conflicting views on issues such as the future financial health of the world. In July I read just such an article by The Melbourne Age’s national editor, Mark Davis. As this discussion is […]
August 27, 2009
I have been inspired by a list (!)…of entrepreneurial profiles and exploits. Social enterprise at its inspirational best will be up for discussion 6-8 October 2009 at the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF), Melbourne, co-hosted by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) […]
August 26, 2009
A reader has alerted us to Choice Magazine’s passionate response from CEO Nick Stace to the decision of Craig Emerson, the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affair’s to pull the grocery price comparison site – GroceryChoice – five days […]
August 24, 2009
A very lucid reader has contacted PWF about several infrastructure projects to which there have been viable alternatives but which have not been discussed in a public forum. Let’s have that discussion… starting with drought-struck Victoria’s desalination plant at Wonthaggi. […]
August 23, 2009
Silence allows the suffering of our Indigenous communities to continue writes Ernest Hunter, a psychiatrist who has worked for many years in remote Queensland. A ‘Frozen Mass Of Lessons Not Learned’ Ernest speaks of hundreds if not thousands of failed […]
August 23, 2009
The Family Action Centre (FAC) at the University of Newcastle, NSW, believes family wellbeing is the cornerstone of healthy communities, it exists to strengthen families and communities promoting sustainability, social justice and community leadership. After starting out in 1986 with […]
August 20, 2009
Toby Smith is the Toby in NSW-based Toby’s Estate Arabica Coffee which has recently launched a social, ethical and environmental (SEE) responsibility project. About Toby Toby is passionate about coffee. He has trekked in Central and South America, Indonesia, India […]