May 12, 2008
It looks as though it is going to need all hands on deck across all sectors of the business world to address the current skills drought. What Phillip Guest of Michael Page International had to say in a Saturday Age […]
May 9, 2008
We see that Business Enterprise Centres Australia (BECA) will receive $10.5 million next financial year from the Federal Government to allow its network of centres to upgrade services in areas such as mentoring, training programs and business analysis. “The funding […]
May 6, 2008
PWF is happy to extend Jim Taggart’s request for Home-Based Businesses to complete his survey. Why Should You Take The 10-15 Minutes? As we wrote before, it seems currently there is little knowledge – either here or overseas – of […]
May 6, 2008
George Vassilou’s story of how he doubled his aged mother’s face-to-face care hours by personally taking control of her EACH dementia package appeared on the front page of The Senior last month. (See story below) Dozens of people have contacted […]
May 6, 2008
At its inaugural national conference in March 2008 the National Federation of Parents, Families And Carers decided to develop a campaign to see everyone in community care with their own Individual Budget and taking charge of their own support. In […]
April 28, 2008
A federal government package of measures aimed at promoting competition and cracking down on anti-competitive behaviour by powerful businesses was announced today. To defend small business from predatory pricing and give it a permanent voice, the Australian Competition and Consumer […]
April 14, 2008
‘Harmonised’ wine labelling laws will cut red tape and save winemakers an estimated $25 million each year in relabelling costs say the Minister for Trade Simon Crean and the Minister for Agriculture Tony Burke as the Council of Australian Governments […]
April 11, 2008
“Communication – especially the interpersonal type – is not a topic that most people race off to do a group workshop about. However, we all know, that we can create positive and at times profound change by looking at our […]
April 9, 2008
It seems currently there is little knowledge – either here or overseas – of how home-based business (HBB) owners view trust, commitment and reciprocity/exchange in their networks, regardless of whether the network is formal or informal. Jim Taggart is Doctor […]
April 4, 2008
I have just spoken with Liz Howland, the ‘ideaslady’ behind a Grey Nomads Skills Register. Rather than publishing lists we have decided to trial asking for Expressions of Interest. See below for electrical work at Augathella, near Charleville, AND work […]
March 30, 2008
There is a campaign afoot to give every person in community care the option of having an individual budget to take charge of their own support. The concept comes from the successful In Control campaign in the UK. At its […]
March 24, 2008
Tonight I was really moved seeing Toll Holdings’ Paul Little talk on the 7.30 Report about their Second Step program – getting drug addicts into jobs – about government doing a bit more and about encouraging other corporates to look […]