Collaboration …or not
March 25, 2014
Radio National reported this morning that Australia’s first not-for-profit real estate agency opens today in Melbourne – a model that hopefully will be rolled out across the country. Homeground Services – one of Melbourne’s largest homelessness, housing and support agencies […]
March 7, 2014
Altin, from Borderlands Cooperative, ran a preliminary ‘co-op conversation’ at the Augustine Centre in Melbourne, late last year. One outcome was a desire to start running short, very low-cost workshops to introduce people in the greater Melbourne area to co-ops […]
March 5, 2014
The Social Enterprise Awards are open for applications until Friday 28 March. Do you know an amazing business doing great things that you’d like to nominate? About The Awards The Social Enterprise Awards are the national awards for Australian social […]
February 12, 2014
Greg Foyster lives at Murundaka Cohousing Community in Heidelberg Heights, Melbourne. He’s contacted us about one of the most popular PWF articles Cohousing A New Affordable Australian Dream? (2008!) and what he calls ‘the first truly urban cohousing community’ in […]
January 11, 2014
A friend recently recommended ‘Nutrition And Physical Degeneration’, the classic work on how what we eat shapes us …for better and worse, by American dentist Weston A. Price (1870-1948). This 1930s dentist discovered that dental caries and crowded, crooked teeth […]
January 10, 2014
Joy Newton from Mt Ive Station in South Australia’s beautiful Gawler Ranges has contacted us again in her search for someone/a couple(?) interested in helping for just a few hours a day with general cleaning/ caretaking on their diversified sheep […]
January 10, 2014
PWF has received a thank you for the help provided – via Newcomers’ Network – in our 2008(!!) article Skilled Migrants Not Finding Work. Ross Gull, from Immigration Direct, has recommended another helpful link which we’re happy to pass on […]
December 22, 2013
Australia has a long way to go before consumers pay fair prices for pharmaceuticals report Stephen Duckett and Peter Breadon of the Grattan Institute. Their report Poor Pricing Progress states that price disclosure isn’t the answer to high drug prices. […]
December 22, 2013
Ten years ago Nan Bray was Chief of CSIRO’s Marine Research Division in Hobart. She has since branched out’ into superfine wool, running 1600 Saxon Merinos in Tassy’s Southern Midlands. Her particular – radical? – method of wool production has […]
December 17, 2013
Gough Whitlam’s valedictory point in ‘The Whitlam Legacy’ has stayed with me. His advice is: “Never forget the primacy of parliament as the great forum for developing, presenting and explaining policy. If we develop, define and defend our policies thoroughly […]
December 1, 2013
Amid all the ‘Gonski noise’ about funding, Kevin Donnelly, director of the Melbourne-based Education Standards Institute, writes about the education process saying we need: Greater Autonomy, Flexibility In Schools’ Decision-Making Needed “Students perform better in schools that have autonomy in […]
December 1, 2013
Hospital procedures can be very scary – especially for children. The Hush Music Foundation, the ongoing work of mother of five, Dr Catherine Crock, is about to launch Hush volume 13 – The Magic Island in conjunction with the Tasmanian […]