Community
February 26, 2013
A PWF reader has alerted us to the fact that victims of the Kinglake-Kilmore East fire on Black Saturday have been spared the trauma of attending court during their case for compensation, after the Supreme Court agreed to transmit proceedings […]
February 14, 2013
PWF is happy to pass on a ‘Call out’ for The Neighbour Project for Melbourne Sharehooders. What Is The Sharehood? The Sharehood is a ‘grassroots group’ – 2641 people with 4968 shareables. THE SHAREHOOD’S DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THEY DO: The […]
February 14, 2013
Carol, from Perth WA, has emailed us about finding some single ladies who might like to do some tag-along caravanning. She says: “I’m looking for single ladies that have a Caravan, Motor home etc to go caravanning with, to tag-a-long […]
February 7, 2013
The December 2012 ABS stats show that overseas visitors were up 7% in December. In 2012 Australia had 6.1 million visitors – 4.6% annual growth – which Tourism Australia’s Andrew McEvoy calls a ‘very creditable performance’ given fierce global tourism […]
February 3, 2013
Following is a ‘guest post’ packed with info by Brent Hardy – http://www.extraspace.com/ – writing about taking an office building ‘off the grid’. Twenty years ago, the thought of an office building without a monthly power bill would have seemed […]
January 31, 2013
The ‘Nuit Blanche’ concept originated in France.. “where every gallery, museum and bookshop is open until midnight or later and the whole city becomes one giant performance and carnival venue.” Wikipedia . Many cities around the world now host White […]
January 31, 2013
“The nature of work is evolving and nobody really knows what it’s going to look like – Ian Harper, Deloitte Access Economics“. Training Needs To Change In 2013 teenage unemployment is at 42.6 per cent in northern Adelaide reminiscent of […]
January 30, 2013
Co-ops ‘do it better’. 2012 was the Year of the Co-op, now Melina Morrison of Social Business Australia is talking about a ‘Co-op Blueprint’ for the next decade. The Coming Decade The International Co-operative Alliance represents the world’s 1 billion […]
January 29, 2013
To drive down supermarket prices we need more supermarkets, not more regulation says Tim Wilson, co-author of ‘Consumer-first supermarket reform’, available here. The Typical Australian Experience Tim says the typical Australian experience, in most suburbs, is: “Consumers are price sensitive […]
January 25, 2013
Women’s Housing Limited works to relieve disadvantaged groups within the community. It has successfully helped to ease inequality and along the way won the Affordable Living category for the Urban Development Institute of Australia (Vic) 2012 Awards for Excellence. Women’s […]
January 25, 2013
In Casino, northern NSW, Nicole Caldwell will soon be the town’s first Aboriginal bus driver. At 33 she is training with the Casino Bus Company and hopes to be employed driving school runs. Her training is part of the ‘Getting […]
January 11, 2013
There is now a website where petowners can find each other in their local area and organise reciprocal petsitting. I have just read about this in my local Leader paper, thought ‘Wow!’ and then wondered how it worked..never dreaming it […]