Local Futures
March 13, 2013
Launched on Tuesday, a new app – the Crime Stoppers-style Sexual Assault Report Anonymously (SARA) app – lets victims submit details of an attack anonymously, anywhere in Australia. It is hoped the app will encourage more women to report rape […]
March 12, 2013
Business Consultant Peter Switzer makes an excellent point about staying in touch with customers to optimise business outcomes. He says that waiting for government help really is a mug’s game. A far better way to induce extra business growth for […]
March 12, 2013
Just think of all the carry-on from our political leaders about ‘not having funds’ and then look at the growth in Australian government expenditure of 4 per cent per year (inflation adjusted) since Gough Whitlam was elected in 1972 till […]
March 12, 2013
There is an email circulating warning that mobile phone numbers in Australia are ‘going public’ next month and it also claims that consumers will be charged for calls made to them by telemarketing companies. Hoaxslayer’s Brief Analysis False, but while […]
March 6, 2013
As part of the ‘Vision 2020 for Creating Sustainable Societies‘ Event 2 Free workshops will be held at the Wantirna Campus of Swinburne Uni, Melbourne, on Saturday 23rd March, presented by Be The Change Australia. Be The Change Australia is […]
February 27, 2013
Social enterprises can be described as organisations that create, support, nurture and empower businesses that are shifting us to a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world. Small Giants was founded in 2007 to do just this.
February 27, 2013
The HATs (highly accomplished teachers) program is a NSW education success story. Pity no-one talks about it says Maxine McKew, though it has been good to hear Radio National interview innovative teacher Greg Whitby about his book, ‘Educating Gen Wi-Fi: […]
February 27, 2013
Victorians can use the Local Harvest website, winner of a 2012 Green Lifestyle Award website to find local food nearby. You just enter your postcode to find farmers’ markets, farm-gate produce, local food swaps, community gardens, organic retailers… Why should […]
February 26, 2013
Michael Short, editor of The Zone, has profiled Braeden Lord of Aussie Farmers Direct, a businessman supporting Australian farmers and manufacturers, who now supplies – free of charge – 130,000 households in direct competition with Coles and Woolies. Michael writes: […]
February 26, 2013
On 6 March, at a business breakfast in Melbourne, international guest speaker Peter Hunt, CEO of Mutuo – UK peak body for mutuals/co-ops – will discuss the role of co-ops in Australia’s new economy with Michael Short, editor of The […]
February 26, 2013
I have recently found out about Abbeyfield Australia, a national not-for-profit providing affordable housing for older people and people with disabilities who wish to live independently within a supportive environment. It represents 26 independent Abbeyfield Societies in towns and suburb […]
February 26, 2013
Demographer Bernard Salt, writing in The Australian, quotes Professor Leon Sterling, President of the Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology saying: “Not enough people are taking ICT qualifications…I think there’s a lack of understanding of what ICT […]