Indigenous Communities
October 2, 2011
The weekend sees Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas take off and there are lots of Australian cities running TEDx ‘fests’. About TED TED (Technology, Environment, Design) is a global ideas movement that posts ‘ideas worth spreading’ online. It covers a […]
October 2, 2011
Have you heard about Infoxchange Australia‘s new role for its social enterprise, GreenPC? Sorting & Recycling Old Technology Pilot For 10 years GreenPC has been re-manufacturing computers and laptops and making them available at low cost to health care card […]
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 1, 2011
Social Traders and the Melbourne Business School’s Asia Pacific Leadership Centre will host a one day forum aiming to bring together people who manage and invest in social enterprises and anyone who is interested in learning about or helping in […]
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 […]
April 29, 2011
Self-Management in Aged Care, Chronic and Mental Illness, Disability and Special Education will be the focus of a national Self-Management Conference in Melbourne 2-3 May 2011 and a PWF colleague makes some interesting observations below. About The Conference Run by […]
April 29, 2011
Question: What level of cultural and financial support is there out there for non Indigenous children who can speak an Aboriginal language to develop a possible career path in this area? Bearing in mind that the annual cost for a […]
April 26, 2011
Here, Toby Hall, CEO of Mission Australia makes the case for real welfare reform, not tinkering at the edges, as we have seen recently with approaches taken by Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. Toby Hall writes: “Prime Minister Julia Gillard […]
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 10, 2011
Homelessness is not just houselessness – but it’s always about housing, says a coalition of groups addressing this huge problem. On any night in Australia 105,000 people are homeless and 25% are under 25. Campaign To Raise Awareness Virgin Unite, […]
April 3, 2011
The following Social Traders opinion piece by Libby Ward-Christie discusses methods of investment for social enterprise and argues the case for rigorous business planning and ‘investment’ type financial support rather than purely ‘grant’ giving. Social Traders invites invites constructive debate […]