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February 3, 2007
The Health for Kids Network -863 registered GPs & still recruiting The Infoxchange Australia newsletter this week tells of a new health network of GPs who are specifically interested in, or who specialise in, child/adolescent health. The network is based […]
February 2, 2007
Clean-energy investments lead to jobs & cash after long IT spending slump The ‘Weekly Grist’ article about Silicon Valley’s upturn due to investment in green technology reinforces what politicians in Oz seem to be recognising. Remember 2006 political speak about […]
January 31, 2007
Economists & environmentalists to talk at a free ‘Future Leaders’ event A reader has emailed us about forum, so we’re passing it on…sounds as though it could be really stimulating and informative and the group behind it, Future Leaders, is […]
January 28, 2007
“The people said ‘no’ and the council ignored them. If the council doesn’t represent the people, just who does it represent? – Mudgee Business Association (MBA) NSW. “It’s the people and their attitudes that make a town successful”– Ian Plowman […]
January 24, 2007
“Parochialism and an aversion to markets will never deliver an efficient national electricity market, national markets for labour, a national market for water, or efficient road and rail freight networks” – Secretary of the Federal Treasury in report released by […]
January 24, 2007
“You must know extent of a problem to improve on it – Victorians are the first in world with a weekly report” – Robert Posner, Australian director of The Climate Group. Every Monday The Age newspaper, along with The Climate […]
January 19, 2007
New technology on show at Brisbane Expo in Feb – sustainability month Geoff Wilson – a man on a mission – has contacted us about the worldwide Green Roofs for Healthy Cities network and about the Brisbane nonprofit photo Expo […]
January 19, 2007
Junk food contributing to childhood obesity AND damaging mental health? Studies in Australia and Britain have drawn links between changes in the Western diet in recent decades and increasing levels of mental illness. Compared with 50 years ago people are […]
January 14, 2007
You can add to an expected $3m farmers’ drought relief by shopping Tuesday 23 Many people have emailed PWF about this fundraising day and we wholeheartedly support the cause and the effort. With all Woolworths and Safeway supermarkets across Australia […]
January 14, 2007
Yarraville Community Centre (YCC) Web Radio Team & discount supermarket – Tim Tams $1.60! PWF is always on the lookout for Neighbourhood House stories and the YCC website and its link to YCC radio webcasts from Western Melbourne has recently […]
January 11, 2007
Have you heard of BALLE? The Business Alliance for Local Living Communities is an international NonProfit that promotes the ‘triple bottom line’ concept that local businesses can simultaneously be profitable and foster social and environmental consciousness. It is catalysing grassroots […]
January 10, 2007
A 15% tax would net $1.5 billion – 30 times the amount spent on all forms of health promotion Mike Daube, professor of health policy at Curtin University, Perth, was reported recently in The Age saying a 15% ‘fat tax’ […]