Cultural Heritage
July 18, 2011
A national conference – 1-2 August at the Angliss Conference Centre, Melbourne – will explore community responses to natural disasters and the need for effective disaster risk management and emergency services. COAG Report Leaves Implementation To Governments & Bureaucracies The […]
July 12, 2011
Cougar Energy has been ordered to shut down its trial underground coal gasification plant near Kingaroy by the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, after traces of the cancer-causing chemical benzene were found in groundwater monitoring bores last year. […]
June 27, 2011
Light up your winter with a visit to the ‘Colours Exhibition’ at The Granary Cafe, 2 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, says Maureen Ryan of Gallery Sunshine Everywhere, a NonProfit that links young artists with the broader community in Melbourne’s west. The […]
June 19, 2011
Did you read Peter Shergold’s thoughts on how to get welfare actually working, published this week on The Conversation? Peter Shergold – Centre for Social Impact, University of NSW – says as a senior public servant he felt “too many […]
June 3, 2011
A central Victorian PWF reader tells us a well-meaning 2 May media release from the Powerline Bushfire Safety Taskforce, about community info meetings, only reached her yesterday, 1 June. She is concerned Gippsland and Mitchell Shire survivors will have been […]
May 29, 2011
London-based global economics magazine ‘The Economist’ – has praised our successes but damned our political leaders for failing to make the most of the China boom. Survey Of Australia SOME POINTS MADE: The political leaders…are perhaps the least impressive feature […]
May 29, 2011
World Challenge is a global competition to identify and reward people and groups that bring economic, social and environmental benefits to their local communities. It is run by the BBC World News and Newsweek, and Shell. BBC presenter and sustainable […]
May 29, 2011
Country events funding of $74,500 for 24 regional organisations that deliver sports, music, visual arts, food and wine and multicultural festival events across Victoria has recently been announced by Tourism and Major Events Minister Louise Asher. Interstate And International Recognition […]
May 5, 2011
Gallery Sunshine Everywhere is a NonProfit that links schools, families, business and the broader community with young artists. At least five exhibitions are curated every year, with no costs to families or schools, and the young artists are mentored. Grants […]
April 14, 2011
Democracy is evolving. There are many disparaging comments about today’s leaders – but what a job! The new Wheatley-Frieze book says we must recognise we are all in this together. We can no longer depend on one heroic leader because […]
April 6, 2011
Are you concerned about what is happening in our world and feeling daunted, overwhelmed, and/or fearful, but want to play a role in making a difference? Participate in the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium and discover a new […]
April 6, 2011
Today is national ‘Homelessness Matters Day’. It is hard to credit that over 6,400 young people are homeless every night in Victoria…what about the rest of Australia? In Victoria the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) is joining services across Victoria […]