Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
September 28, 2014
The Helpmehelpyou app is ‘a helping hand within arm’s reach’- a great idea, and free. The app allows carers, parents and sick people to stay in touch. It puts out a call to friends or family for help with a […]
May 16, 2014
Last year Dr. David Suzuki helped the EcoXpo celebrate its 5th anniversary – a great success, by all accounts – and this year the City of Sydney will be a partner, recognising the EcoXpo as the major sustainable event in […]
May 15, 2014
Congrats to Fairfax Media for publishing Dr Tim Thornton’s article on problems with the way we educate economists…the morning after the Coalition’s budget launch! Economics has long been recognised as an ‘inherently precise discipline’ (M A Salinger) and apparently even […]
April 17, 2014
The Business Council for Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) recently announced that the Co-operatives National Law (CNL) has been launched in NSW and in Victoria – a watershed day for ‘Australia’s most under-recognised sector’. “Eight in ten Australians are members of […]
March 7, 2014
Altin, from Borderlands Cooperative, ran a preliminary ‘co-op conversation’ at the Augustine Centre in Melbourne, late last year. One outcome was a desire to start running short, very low-cost workshops to introduce people in the greater Melbourne area to co-ops […]
February 6, 2014
In inner Melbourne, 3000 Acres, a food activist community group has identified 12 inner city sites to establish small community-led veg, fruit and herb gardens. Vancouver And New York Already Doing This A New York-based project called 596 Acres provided […]
December 1, 2013
Amid all the ‘Gonski noise’ about funding, Kevin Donnelly, director of the Melbourne-based Education Standards Institute, writes about the education process saying we need: Greater Autonomy, Flexibility In Schools’ Decision-Making Needed “Students perform better in schools that have autonomy in […]
September 30, 2013
After having lived in Gippsland for 10 years and knowing the small timber town of Heyfield quite well, I was delighted to hear about its remarkable community-based environmental flag system that heaps in the community embraced – young and old! […]
September 29, 2013
This week’s Koori Times front page is reporting ‘Scullion’s Pledge, saying despite initial appearances to the contrary, new federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion is keen to hear from community members. He says: “What’s important is that we listen to […]
August 8, 2013
The annual Australian Community Sector Survey of over 500 agencies shows that frontline agencies are under enormous strain and unable to meet the growing demand for help. What’s The Greatest Need? Housing availability and affordability is the greatest unmet need […]
July 30, 2013
Even in the most remote communities in the Central Western Desert Ngaanyatjarrra Lands footy is greatly loved. Often the dusty oval is a community hub and when the footy season is on, families of cars head off to neighbouring communities […]
July 7, 2013
Some teaching systems – such as Montessori – teach broad concepts to very young students (like my grand-daughter )and I see that ‘Social Economy’ will be part of the school curriculum in France. What if we also taught ‘World Religions […]