Collaboration …or not
August 20, 2009
Working in partnership with Tanya Ha – author, TV presenter, enviro champion and mother of two – Melbourne’s Hobson’s Bay City Council recently developed and ran a series of 8 ‘Mama Green’ workshops to teach Mums – and Dads – […]
August 18, 2009
Sean Riley is a small business operator with a passion for giving it to larger companies that waste his time. He set up iHateHolding.com after many moments of frustration with phone prompt navigation that we all unwillingly endure! How To […]
August 18, 2009
EVERYONE needs holidays. ARE our tourism operators aware of the demand for holidays for people with disabilities? Small tourism businesses – especially regional operators – do not do well in difficult economic times and yet as Sheila King of the […]
August 14, 2009
Fred Hollows Foundation chief Brian Doolan has echoed the much loved and honoured opthamalogist’s observations that red tape entangled legislation and bureaucracy is NOT the best way to deliver services to remote Aboriginal Australia. Brain applauds “flexibility and moving decision-making […]
August 12, 2009
Genevieve Gannon writing in The Melbourne Times 5.08.09 reports that the State Government will donate $2 for every single dollar raised by Melbourne’s Inner North Community Foundation – up to $100,000. It has also committed $100,000 ‘upfront’ – a potential […]
August 4, 2009
A selection of tourism, government and community leaders from five of Australia’s key tourism destinations have identified more than 40 potential tourism-focused climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies to be considered by national research projects in the light of the […]
August 4, 2009
More grassroots advocacy – this time from the third tier of government… A national conference ‘The Future is Relocalisation – Communities in Transition’ will be hosted by the Municipal Association of Victoria 8-9 September ’09. EVENT SUPPORTERS Bank of I.D.E.A.S. […]
August 4, 2009
Grassroots advocacy continues. Here is an invitation to parents, educators and policymakers – to attend one of two mid-August forums in Sydney and in Melbourne – to Explore Real Change in Schools/Education. Q: Can a parents’ movement transform our schools? […]
August 4, 2009
Sheila King of Australia For All – the National One Stop Shop for accessible tourism in Australia and overseas – is concerned about the discrepancy in charges for continence hygiene aids which adversely affects the budgets of people with disabilities. […]
August 4, 2009
Paul Pierotti is a businessman who runs Caesar’s Furniture in Griffith, NSW. Around two years ago he set up Our Future Is Local in Griffith and he has written telling us the story, how for some years he lobbied the […]
July 27, 2009
Thank you so much to Bruce McCubbery for these photos – via Bob King I believe. I find the green shoots quite inspirational. We humans, our communities and our forests are resilient aren’t we? We share the common experience of […]
July 18, 2009
With the unemployment rate predicted to reach over 8% Infoxchange Australia has announced the development of a new service, ‘Employment Navigator’. Using interactive Web 2.0 technologies, the service aims to connect job seekers and the resources to help them find […]