Collaboration …or not
March 15, 2009
This weekend The Australian wrote up two property developers – Victoria’s Daniel Grollo and Queensland’s Ian Thomas – and their social entreprenurship. Government Scheme Not The Answer “A government-sponsored scheme will not ease the housing shortage. Affordable housing requires government […]
March 15, 2009
The idea of a Grey Nomad Jobs and Skills Register is slowly ‘getting out there’. We have two new expressions of interest – one from a NT cattle station and one from a property in Victoria’s remote far east Gippsland. […]
March 11, 2009
Today The Age reports that the Victorian Government will put $100m towards a solar energy plant condemned by some of its own experts as probably doing nothing to encourage and increase the take-up of solar panels – unlike the 10 […]
March 11, 2009
Tourism Queensland has published some interesting info about their international visitors at this very difficult time for the industry. TQ says: “The latest International Visitor Survey results for the year ended December 2008 have revealed that foreign backpackers and students […]
March 10, 2009
Don Ashby of Mallacoota in Victoria’s beautiful far east – has raised a most important issue for remote Australian communities. Don writes: ” Mallacoota, like many remote and isolated communities, has a very unstable power supply and the supply is […]
March 9, 2009
Andrew Campbell, a Victorian forester with professional training in fire behaviour, fire suppression and fire management with experience as a ‘sector boss’ in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires has set down some very clear thoughts about life after the Victorian […]
March 5, 2009
Many local businesses in Nillumbik Shire – in Melbourne’s lovely, leafy fringe – have been badly affected by the fires. The Council is putting in place a number of measures to assist local business directly and indirectly affected. Nillumbik Business […]
March 2, 2009
While we have both fires and floods damaging crops, celebrity chefs and the Federal Government have teamed up to ask shoppers to buy local fruit and vegetables even though the produce may be more blemished than usual. Leading Sydney chefs […]
February 25, 2009
Sally Campbell, Projects Coordinator and Trainer of the City of Yarra tells us that Clifton Hill in Melbourne’s inner NE will host a FREE event on March 15 to mark the Elimination of Racism Day & Cultural Diversity week. “Quite […]
February 25, 2009
Jon Dee and Bayer-UNEP have begun the search for Australian ‘eco’ university students who might represent us in 2009 with ideas on sustainable energy solutions at the third bi-annual International Bayer-UNEP Eco-Minds Forum, in Auckland, New Zealand. About The Forum […]
February 25, 2009
The Bass Coast and Phillip Island Business and Tourism Partnerships are inviting all local businesses to add their support to the Bush Fire relief Appeal. Thursday 26 February is the nominated ‘Day of Action’ Examples of how you can show […]
February 25, 2009
Interested in community wide dialogue? The Australian Study Circles Network (ASCN) is conducting a one day workshop on how to organise your own Community Wide Study Circle Program in April this year. About The Organisational Clinic The goals of this […]