Cultural Heritage
November 27, 2009
The Country Hour’s Hobart presenter, Anna Vidot, reports today that while our pollies have been doing very much what pollies do, more than 70 Australian scientists reviewing ‘The Maritime Climate Change in Australia Report Card‘ believe Australia’s marine environment has […]
November 27, 2009
Congrats to Dr Paul Mees, a Senior lecturer in Transport Planning at Melbourne’s RMIT University, for an inquiring mind and some good clear thinking. Paul observes how Melburnians are being lambasted for low density living and suburban gardens causing the […]
November 9, 2009
PWF has received a request from Bryan Johnston who is struggling to find links and contacts to develop an Indigenous network portal. The website will cover and provide links to: “Aboriginal co-ops (farming, business development, art, cultural and language diversity […]
November 3, 2009
Victoria’s Maroondah Council is responding to its community’s interest in Transition Towns – as have several other councils – with an Info Night Tuesday 10 November. What Are Tranbsition Towns? Maroondah describes this as: “a community based movement that seeks […]
November 1, 2009
Over the past week I have been impressed with what I’ve read about two ‘not-so-new’ teaching approaches that are helping ‘low-progress’ students – (1) Multilit and (2) Explicit Instruction. 1. The MULTILIT Reading Program Multilit ‘making up for lost time‘ […]
October 24, 2009
In the following article Peter Botsman asks us – we the inhabitants of prosperous Australia – about justice and a hand-up for Indigenous Australians who do not enjoy our privileges. Government funding of Indigenous communities is the opposite of the […]
October 13, 2009
Kate Lawrence, of Macedon in the foothills of the Great Divide to Melbourne’s north-west, writes about being ‘Overwhelmed By Nature’ in her brand new website ‘Fire in Mind‘. Kate writes: “The first blog! I have circled round and round this […]
October 1, 2009
Two years ago PWF posted Claiming Back Free Speech And Public Debate an article about the Small Press Underground Networking Community, SPUNC. SPUNC continues its work in 2009. It is a Non-Profit organisation set up to represent and promote collaboration […]
September 10, 2009
CSIRO researchers have developed a new fire-resistant coating that can withstand temperatures of over 1000C. Current commercial coatings used on building materials and structures usually break down at between 150-250°C. This news was published in the Future Materials and Australian […]
September 9, 2009
There’ll be a one day – 6 October – Food Farming and Health Conference, an investigation into future farms and food chains at the Warragul Arts Centre, run by AgriBusiness Gippsland, in Victoria’s east, for an outlay of only $30 […]
September 7, 2009
Melbourne’s Xris Reardon from Third-Way Theatre reminds us about the up and coming 3-day workshop on the Art of Peace starting Friday 18 September. The workshop will be run jointly by Xris and Richard Barber from Makhampon, Thailand. About The […]
September 7, 2009
Peter Smith OAM grew up on the Murray and is heavily involved in multiple water resource groups. Murray Darling Association Lower Murray Working Group (Lock 1 to the sea) MDA SA Reference Committee Rural City of Murray Bridge Water Resources […]