Community
February 6, 2014
In inner Melbourne, 3000 Acres, a food activist community group has identified 12 inner city sites to establish small community-led veg, fruit and herb gardens. Vancouver And New York Already Doing This A New York-based project called 596 Acres provided […]
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 […]
November 26, 2013
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 13, 2013
PWF has received an email about Travel Buddys around Perth: “Hi I am a 51 year old lady, looking for other similar single ladies between the ages 45-60 to travel in convoy for short stints around W.A Perth.” For More […]
November 12, 2013
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 […]