Cultural Heritage
May 7, 2009
The American agribusiness lobby reaction to Michelle Obama’s decision to make her new White House vegetable garden entirely organic just might be opening up a community-wide discussion on how our crops are grown. America’s new First Lady has been asked […]
May 6, 2009
The Federal Government has a website www.careeradviceaustralia.gov.au that targets 13-19 year olds. It aims to help young people to move through school and into further, study, training or work parents to support and guide their children in career decision-making schools […]
April 28, 2009
How difficult is it looking for work when you’re female, single, newly arrived here or have been out of the workforce for years? On top of this you may not have the ‘right’ clothes and when it comes to that […]
April 24, 2009
Tourism WA is looking for quality employers interested in joining the Aboriginal Employment Initiative – traineeships and cadetships are available where participants gain experience with some of tourism’s top organisations while getting paid. Traineeship Placements Needed There are nine highly […]
April 14, 2009
PWF is pleased to pass on details about ‘A Taste Of A Positive Future’. This means enjoying dinner in beautiful NE Victoria where the popular ‘Chef’s Special Dinner’ is on again in Whitfield at the King Valley Cucina, and the […]
April 9, 2009
The City of Hobsons Bay in Victoria’s inner north-west has hosted a series of Community Wide Study Circles that will be used to inform the Council’s Employment, Education and Lifelong Learning Plan. The 3 week round of circles was followed […]
April 4, 2009
Susan and Renska are two inspiring young Australian women who are putting their time, energy and passion where their belief is with Compassion in Action. Both have trained in Holistic Kinesiology at the Australian College of Complementary Medicine, they work […]
April 4, 2009
I recently met two young go-getters, Renee and Anthony Hasseldine, at a Nillumbik Homebiz brekky. FYI if you’re a Vic local – Post Office Cafe, Hurstbridge, 8-10am, every second Wednesday morning – a very friendly, informative business chat! Anthony and […]
March 31, 2009
Rotary International has a long history of promoting peace and it has recently been heavily involved in providing tangible assistance to bushfire victims. Southbank Rotary Luncheon To Support Bushfire Recovery At this luncheon London Bombing Survivor Gill Hicks and Christine […]
March 23, 2009
The Bonyeeburra Gathering aims to bring together all traditional dance groups, Elders and leaders of Australia that maintain and identify their mob’s connection to the traditional bunya ceremony of southeast Queensland. It is widely acknowledged that the common corroborees shared […]
March 15, 2009
This weekend The Australian wrote up two property developers – Victoria’s Daniel Grollo and Queensland’s Ian Thomas – and their social entreprenurship. Government Scheme Not The Answer “A government-sponsored scheme will not ease the housing shortage. Affordable housing requires government […]
March 15, 2009
The idea of a Grey Nomad Jobs and Skills Register is slowly ‘getting out there’. We have two new expressions of interest – one from a NT cattle station and one from a property in Victoria’s remote far east Gippsland. […]