Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
January 25, 2013
In Casino, northern NSW, Nicole Caldwell will soon be the town’s first Aboriginal bus driver. At 33 she is training with the Casino Bus Company and hopes to be employed driving school runs. Her training is part of the ‘Getting […]
December 21, 2012
Walpiri woman Bess Nungarrayi Price – and her white husband David Price – speak out about conditions for rural Indigenous people in Central Australia – ‘Welcome To My World’ on Radio National. Bess has copped plenty of flack for speaking […]
November 21, 2012
On the cusp of all that might be wonderful, just how devastating is the loss of a young life – whether through murder as with Jill Meagher and Sarah Cafferkey, or though suicide? Youth Suicide Increasing.. Tragically we are told […]
November 20, 2012
There will be a National Workshop on Wednesday 27 February 2013 to discuss an inaugural Leadership Council for Australia’s 665,000 Voluntary Community Groups – a ‘Voice and Representation for the Social Fabric of Australia’. WHY A Peak Body For Our […]
September 26, 2012
What is the truth about international students studying in Australia? Claudia Doria’s new website www.truthaboutstudyin australia.com provides an excellent range of articles, books and papers – essential for students to learn how to survive in a new country. As Claudia […]
August 16, 2012
Had you, like me, been wondering exactly what has happened in the VET sector to cause the Baillieu Government to act so harshly with the TAFEs? Ben Eltham on crowd-funded New Matilda explains: “According to the policy experts and union […]
August 7, 2012
In outer NE Melbourne, Croydon’s Yarrunga Community Centre will run an affordable, accessible short course on Permaculture Oct- Nov 2012. On the basis of wanting to share knowledge of these important principles Yarrunga has won some government funding. About The […]
July 26, 2012
“Great minds discuss ideas” – Eleanor Roosevelt “Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about” – Ashleigh Brilliant “We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to […]
July 1, 2012
A Public Commission for a new major political party here, in Australia – the ‘politics we are yearning for’ – has just been announced by the Centre For Civil Society, a public policy and social innovation institute concerned with the […]
July 1, 2012
2012 as well as being the UN International Year of Cooperatives is also the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. In light of this, the Cooperatives Research Group of the University of Sydney is holding a Symposium – […]
June 21, 2012
I heard a flash about ‘Refugee Homestay’ as I flicked through TV channels last night and followed it up. The Australian Homestay Network has started up a Community Placement Network (CPN) with the goal of offering short-term, homestay accommodation to […]
June 11, 2012
The Fairfax Herald/Age Wellbeing Index indicates that despite ‘temporary stumbles and confusing contradictory trends’ there is solid evidence for optimism about our future as there has been 2% ‘good growth’ in the value of Australia’s human capital. The Index Findings […]