September 7, 2010
Ken Sibley has contacted PWF to pass on info about his skills and those of his partner Margaret, and their travel plans. About Ken And Margaret Ken is a fully qualified electrician and licensed contractor and Margaret is a qualified […]
September 6, 2010
ONE International is asking people to sign a petition to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to help Pakistan’s poorest recover from the recent unprecedented floods. The Scale Of The Disaster Reports suggest 20 million people have been affected, devastating in […]
August 29, 2010
The need to better manage Aged Care processes has not lessened – something else for our Indies to address? PWF has addressed this issue before with Something’s Wrong – Families Struggle To Support Elderly and Good News On Direct Family […]
July 22, 2010
“An alarming number of retirees who take out a reverse mortgage do not fully understand how the product works until the equity in their home has already started eroding” reported The Australian recently. The National Information Centre on Retirement Investments […]
July 5, 2010
Lifeline is delighted with a Senate report into suicide in Australia, this being the leading cause of death for Australians under the age of 44. The Lifeline CEO says “Suicide is a whole of community health issue and everyone has […]
July 5, 2010
PWF has written previously about Susan and Renska, two inspiring young Australian women who have trained in Holistic Kinesiology and work with Compassion in Action to train staff and carers at organisations working with vulnerable children, first in Cambodia and […]
July 4, 2010
From 1 July 2010 Australian franchisors will have to comply with expanded disclosure requirements to prospective franchisees, meaning they must make changes to their disclosure documents and must also begin collecting new types of information reports Australian Law Firm Clayton […]
July 2, 2010
I have just received Anna Mitchell’s story from Mind Australia. As a young woman who has lived with mental ill health and is now an ‘Ambassador of Hope’ Anna has begun speaking about her experiences, with the goal of early […]
June 22, 2010
PWF is right behind GetUp’s Mental Health Campaign. What GetUp says: “I lost my beautiful youngest daughter to suicide 3 years ago… She was not referred on to an appropriate service after suffering post-natal depression… She had 3 children whom […]
June 17, 2010
Queenslander Dr Ian Plowman’s Cooperative Conversations that achieve grassroots goals captured PWF attention back in 2008. On 19-23 July in Melbourne CBD, Ian together with Roberts Evaluation will run a workshop series covering program design and planning, evaluation, and productive […]
April 17, 2010
Stateline recently reported on the new West Belconnen Health Co op in Charnwood, Canberra – a not for profit community health care centre that sits somewhere between the old family GP and the new Super Clinics. About West Belconnen Health […]
March 11, 2010
Elizabeth is a ‘grey nomad widow’. She’s in good shape – no illnesses! – and she lives in Frankston, Victoria. Elizabeth is writing a novel and planning lots of travelling. She has recently returned from India which she thoroughly enjoyed. […]