Cultural Heritage
September 21, 2010
Lane Burdett of Business DIY has a new project, My Main Street, a website that offers communities and their small businesses a remarkably economical online platform for self-promotion. It’s all about small and medium businesses (SMEs) competing with the ‘big’ […]
September 21, 2010
Sugata Mitra is an Indian education researcher. His ‘Hole in the Wall’ experiments have shown that, if motivated by curiosity and peer interest, children can teach themselves and each other without formal supervision. He says in every country there are […]
August 29, 2010
PWF has found the TRI Community Exchange (TRI) on Twitter. TRI is a NSW community info exchange that has been in operation since 1992. They’re dealing with: Suicide & Self Harm Prevention– TRI has just launched a national suicide/self harm […]
August 29, 2010
After being buoyed by Australian post-election ‘let’s improve the democracy discussions’ I see the NZ Opposition is braving the twittersphere inviting open discussion on new policies, espousing transparency and an opening up of the public sector, just like our Australian […]
August 25, 2010
There was little or no attention paid to Indigenous issues over the election campaign, as noted by Sarah Maddison from University NSW. It seems we voters are blind to Australia’s greatest failing and, of course, the First Australians don’t live […]
July 16, 2010
There’s a called new website ‘Truth In Labelling’ established by Senator Nick Xenophon and the Citrus Reform Association. The website has been donated by concerned growers from the Citrus Reform Association and web design company, Muscle Online. The Rationale “The […]
July 14, 2010
A reader has highly recommended the Developmental Assets program. He was present as a very committed teacher at Good Shepherd College in Hamilton, country Victoria, introduced this support for teenagers – in tears as he showed a 60 minutes clip […]
July 12, 2010
The Weekly Times is reporting a situation where Chinese mushrooms with potential health risks have been sold in Australia labelled ‘Packed in Melbourne’. It seems Labor and the Libs are doing nothing about tougher country-of-origin labelling as major retailers are […]
July 7, 2010
Sue Ellson, founder of Newcomers Network, felt very honoured to be a conferree’s guest at Australia’s largest Australian Citizenship Ceremony held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Saturday, 19 June 2010. Sue writes movingly on Open Forum saying: “I […]
July 5, 2010
It is technically feasible and affordable to replace all fossil fuel electricity with 100% renewable energy given the willpower and commitment to do so. A plan to do this has been developed and will be launched in Melbourne on 14 […]
June 24, 2010
Victoria’s Planning Minister Justin Madden – of the ‘sham community consultation on the Windsor development‘ has been ‘rolled again’ announced Jon Faine yesterday on his ABC Vic. Morning Show. The Opposition has blocked legislation on extending the urban sprawl and […]
June 23, 2010
The True Food Network is reporting that US biotech companies are lobbying to stop the Australian Government from labelling genetically engineered (GE) products, on the basis that this would be ‘an undue restriction on trade with the US’. The Trans […]