Indigenous Communities
April 14, 2009
PWF is pleased to pass on details about ‘A Taste Of A Positive Future’. This means enjoying dinner in beautiful NE Victoria where the popular ‘Chef’s Special Dinner’ is on again in Whitfield at the King Valley Cucina, and the […]
April 11, 2009
Greenpages has reported on the huge Copenhagen (March 10-12) interdisciplinary International Scientific Congress on Climate Change. The University of Copenhagen hosted the Congress ‘Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions’ and discussed the latest knowledge on climate within a broad […]
April 9, 2009
The City of Hobsons Bay in Victoria’s inner north-west has hosted a series of Community Wide Study Circles that will be used to inform the Council’s Employment, Education and Lifelong Learning Plan. The 3 week round of circles was followed […]
March 23, 2009
The Bonyeeburra Gathering aims to bring together all traditional dance groups, Elders and leaders of Australia that maintain and identify their mob’s connection to the traditional bunya ceremony of southeast Queensland. It is widely acknowledged that the common corroborees shared […]
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
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 29, 2009
PWF has bemoaned lack of leadership on this issue, now we see there have been over 4,000 petition signatures in just under 7 days… and the Feed-In Tariff team has only just begun! State by state here are the numbers […]
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 […]
January 9, 2009
Could Australia – whose likely host states currently ban Jatropha plants – become a source of feedstock for a biofuel capable of replacing jet fuel? The West Australian recently reported that Air New Zealand has successfully used a 50-50 blend […]
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 […]
October 1, 2008
‘Learning Together’ is a conference for teachers and principals presented by ANTaR Victoria and Reconciliation Victoria. It is an effort to provide support in the teaching of Indigenous studies. The Victorian Government has recently announced their Wannik Education Strategy, a […]