November 14, 2006
Market the product & build a brand – clean, green (& cool?) Speaking at a ‘Shellfish Futures 2006‘ course on market competitiveness, in Orford recently, vegetable industry activist Richard Bovill commented on the similarity between the vegetable and shellfish industries. […]
November 1, 2006
The Children’s Hospitals launch ‘Hush’ Volume 5 – music for complete calm Melbourne University’s Trinity College Choir, directed by Michael Leighton Jones, will perform a selection of songs from the latest recording in the ‘Hush Collection’ – part of music […]
October 25, 2006
An important sector – 67.5% of all small business in Oz is run from home HBB operators often comment on the sense of isolation they experience when working from home. Barbara Gabogrecan, a longtime advocate for the Micro Business sector […]
October 20, 2006
Bi-monthly & FREE to Gold & Silver Members & Subscribers Four years ago, after a business adviser told new mum Melissa Khalinsky – BMN Founder – that she should plan to work from 9am – 5pm, 5 days a week, […]
September 15, 2006
A $US 6 million campaign with Saks Fifth Avenue & Dillards Australia’s wool industry has joined forces with two leading American clothing retailers to promote woollen products, positioning wool as a must-have luxury item. Executive director of the Woolmark Company, […]
August 28, 2006
How players & business people can motivate themselves to excel Rodney Hogg is described as ‘blond, blue-eyed, aggressive and menacingly fast’. After representing Australia in Test cricket between 1978 – in 2005 he ‘won’ a spot on the Victorian selection […]
August 3, 2006
In the future WILL all the fish we eat be farmed? Here is some info on where Australian aquaculture is right now: Training course for aquaculturists A modular training course on environmental, safety and quality management – approved for FarmBis […]
July 26, 2006
A promising future for employee ownership in Australia? Alan Greig from The Mercury Centre is a PWF guest writer. The following article will be published in the Australian Employee Ownership Association (AEOA) August News. If the breadth of employee ownership […]
July 20, 2006
Retirement? But 90% of net worth is in the company…. Box Built Australia manufactures timber crates and boxes at Acacia Ridge in Brisbane. The company was formed by two founding directors in 1955 and currently has 30 employees. The oldest […]
July 13, 2006
Entries close 31 July 2006 – prizes worth $30,000 JPG Media has this year organised the ‘Inaugural HBB Awards’ with The Leader newspaper as the major sponsor. There are $30,000 worth of prizes to be shared between the five category […]
July 7, 2006
Ethicist says our our laws don’t protect farm animals A PWF reader has written to us about the treatment of pregnant pigs saying that Australian ethicist Professor Peter Singer, of Animals Australia, and author of ‘The Ethics of What We […]
July 2, 2006
Anti off-shore detention petition signatures now 78,000 In just a week the GetUp petition to stop asylum seekers being detained offshore has risen from 33,000 to 78,000 and the attempt to pass the new legislation, prior to the PM’s visit […]