Indigenous Communities
March 21, 2011
Last year’s R U O K? day – a national suicide prevention action day – was deemed a big success. Following are some tips I came across after reading about ‘Key Staff Driven To Disorder’ and Graeme Cowan’s personal five […]
March 18, 2011
The content of the Closing the Gap report, 2011, has been called ‘underwhelming’…and it seems SOME insightful thinking on this issue just never sees the light of day, either in political circles it seems, or in mainstream media. Government Should […]
March 16, 2011
Connecting Up 2011 is about making technology accessible, understandable AND practical. Now in its seventh year the conference focuses on how nonprofits and charities can use technology to help them do what they do even better. About The Program Connecting […]
March 10, 2011
Commercial buildings are far more energy efficient than the residential sector according to data released at last week’s Green Cities 2011 Conference by property investment analyst IPD, AND commercial properties outperform non-rated buildings financially, reports The Age newspaper. Sustainability engineers […]
February 18, 2011
There was a social innovation Learning Festival in Melbourne in late February – based on a systemic approach not a ‘mechanistic mental model’ such as World Cafe and Open Space. A Power Camp And A Love Camp.. In Adam Kahane’s […]
February 16, 2011
Xris Reardon from Melbourne’s Third Way Theatre tells us Barbara Santos will run workshops in Brisbane for training in Aesthetics of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Barbara is the former General Manager for the Centre of Theatre of the Oppressed […]
February 2, 2011
The Barefoot College, founded in 1972 in India, combines traditional ‘barefoot’ knowledge and demystified modern skills, creating tools for people essentially ‘written off’ by urban society. The Barefoot College works with marginalized, exploited and impoverished rural poor, living on less […]
January 31, 2011
“Why do our attempts to deal with the challenges of our time so often fail? The cause of our collective failure is that we are blind to the deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change. This ‘blind spot’ exists not […]
January 25, 2011
In Belgrave, in the Dandenong ranges not far from Melbourne, 86 year old former service station owner John Novrotny is persevering with his affordable building revolution, despite a lack of support from the building industry and government. His innovative new […]
December 15, 2010
Jim Diers, well known for his book ‘Neighbour Power – Building Community The Seattle Way‘ will be in Australia March 2011. Ted Smeaton of Inspiring Communities and Asset Based Community Development Global Consulting tells us that while Jim’s calendar is […]
November 30, 2010
There has been a lot of talk about what Australians can do to help ‘close the gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians says Bronwyn Lumby from the Centre For Cultural Competence Australia (CCCA) and this new Centre has started something […]
November 14, 2010
These remote area Traineeships could be very useful. They recognise the barriers to employment and training faced by young Indigenous people in remote communities. We’d love to hear from any community or group using this service? The Department of Education, […]