Cultural Heritage
March 9, 2009
Andrew Campbell, a Victorian forester with professional training in fire behaviour, fire suppression and fire management with experience as a ‘sector boss’ in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires has set down some very clear thoughts about life after the Victorian […]
February 25, 2009
Sally Campbell, Projects Coordinator and Trainer of the City of Yarra tells us that Clifton Hill in Melbourne’s inner NE will host a FREE event on March 15 to mark the Elimination of Racism Day & Cultural Diversity week. “Quite […]
February 22, 2009
Soumitri Varadarajan, from RMIT’s School of Architecture and Design, writes a blog Faint Voice. He is posting ideas from many people – designers and architects – about bunkers, shipping containers etc as fire protection. Some of the architects have offered […]
February 21, 2009
Is Your Tourist Guide Qualified, asks GOA (Guiding Organisations Australia)? Today, International Tourist Guide Day, 21st February 2009, the World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations (WFTGA) is launching a campaign to encourage tourists around the world to question whether their […]
February 19, 2009
We hear from Peter Botsman of the Indigenous Stock Exchange (ISX) that Tahlia Burchill, a young Aboriginal girl from Mossman, may have succeeded in drawing Oprah Winfrey to Far North Queensland. Tahlia has worked at the Daintree Eco Lodge & […]
February 4, 2009
There are training Workshops developed from the work by Augusto Boal with International practitioners coming up In MARCH and APRIL in Melbourne. This will be a joint venture between Stage Left Productions, Canada – one of the six world-wide centres […]
February 4, 2009
The Local Governments – Pathways to Sustainable Tourism program is a free, practical, self-guided OR facilitated workshop program now available to councils around Australia – developed by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC). What Does The Program Do? It […]
February 1, 2009
After Friday’s ‘meltingly successful’ 45.1 degree training day for Community-Wide Study Circle facilitators at Melbourne’s Altona Meadows Library and Learning Centre, I was interested to read follow-up news of the diverse group that had travelled from country Victoria, Canberra and […]
January 21, 2009
It seems cooperatives are weathering the difficult economic times quite well. The ABC’s 7.30 Report presented an interesting/uplifting segment on this topic a few weeks ago. The Report Starts Out Saying… “The world wide co-operative movement say that their banks […]
December 19, 2008
The Barmah Forest is in northwestern Victoria on the Murray River. There is a recent government ban that stops historic grazing in the forest. I listened – amazed at human behaviour – to Max Rheese of the Barmah community’s Rivers […]
December 14, 2008
What does ‘community-wide dialogue‘ or a ‘cooperative conversation‘ have to do with: 1.The rift between the Pat Dodson and the Warren Mundine/Marcia Langton/Noel Pearson camps 2. The put down of ‘co-ops and mutuals’ by Janet Albrechtson and several grassroots commentators […]
November 25, 2008
Xris Reardon, artistic director of Third-Way Theatre, has a new show in Melbourne’s outer east. ‘Towing the Line – Distorted Perspectives’ is theatre that aims to make a difference. To me the Third-Way Theatre process sits very comfortably with community-wide […]