Collaboration …or not

November 26, 2013

Patient-Owned ACT Health Co-Op – Successful Social Enterprise

Alan Greig, a Director of Social Business Australia, has advised PWF on co-ops and mutuals for years now, this social business model of collective self-help being one pathway to social impact. The West Belconnen Health Cooperative started in 2010 and […]
November 12, 2013

Neighbourhood Sharing: The Sharehood To Merge with Streetbank (UK)

The Sharehood, Melbourne – 2806 people with 3208 shareables – is merging with Streetbank. Positive feedback on the idea seems like a win-win situation, so the merger should take place later this year or very early next year. The Sharehood […]
November 2, 2013

Part-Time Sheep Station Tourism Work In Gawler Ranges SA

Joy Newton from Mt Ive Station in the Gawler Ranges contacted us some time ago regarding travellers helping out a little with a small tourist venture on their Gawler Ranges sheep station in exchange for a powered site etc. Unfortunately […]
September 30, 2013

Community Sustainability Effort That Won UN Award

After having lived in Gippsland for 10 years and knowing the small timber town of Heyfield quite well, I was delighted to hear about its remarkable community-based environmental flag system that heaps in the community embraced – young and old! […]
September 30, 2013

Winning App Makes Classy Videos…Free For Short Time

With the launch of the new video-app ‘Cinch’ there is now no excuse for making bad videos. Cinch guides users through the filming and editing process with on-screen guidelines helping to record, trim, rearrange and add music. Cinch is a […]
September 29, 2013

Success In Tackling Chronic Homelessness

I hear Mission Australia is having a near 100% success rate in a new program tackling homelessness. Apparently, horrifically, 50% of our homeless are young people. Australia is a late-adopter of ‘Youth foyers‘ but we are seeing success with these. […]
September 29, 2013

Senator Wants To Hear Indigenous Grassroots Ideas, Solutions

This week’s Koori Times front page is reporting ‘Scullion’s Pledge, saying despite initial appearances to the contrary, new federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion is keen to hear from community members. He says: “What’s important is that we listen to […]
September 29, 2013

‘Fluffy’ Labelling, Sustainable Forestry, And Jobs in Victoria

A few days ago I came across three young women touching up an enormous banner in an inner Melbourne park. It was a sign to be photographed from the air in the Toolangi State Forest, northeast of Melbourne, home to […]
September 21, 2013

Voice 4 Indi – A Community Self-Help Model? Democracy?

Just in case you missed it, the ABC’s 7.30 Report (Victoria) gives an excellent rundown on newly-elected Federal MP Cathy McGowan’s remarkable mobilisation of community effort across all political persuasions in Indi. Note the age of the campaign managers – […]
August 20, 2013

Future Travel Companions Getting To Know Each Other?

Sue has emailed us about locating possible travel companions. She says: Hi I live in Sth West Queensland, I am single and in my late 50s. I would like to meet and/or correspond with ladies interested in travelling locally, interstate […]
August 16, 2013

Excellent Pathway For Food Industry In Asian Century

Rebecca Dee-Bradbury is President Developed Markets, Asia Pacific, Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods). She was a member of the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Manufacturing. Rebecca spoke at the Global Food Forum in Melbourne earlier this year and she makes some […]
August 11, 2013

Victorians, Speak Out Against Puppy Factories By 14 August

If Victorians want to speak out against puppy factories they should email submissions to animal.welfare@depi.vic.gov.au which must be in by 9am next Wednesday, 14 August. RSPCA Facebook Comments On Puppy Factories RSPCA would like to see the end of intensive […]