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Commenting on the very positive restaurant business outlook, Restaurant & Catering SA CEO, Sally Neville, says the industry turnover is continuing to grow annually at 7 per cent.

This annual growth rate reflects new businesses as well as higher turnover in the middle-value section of the market.

Business is brisk and the demand for staff is only expected to go up. Sally says:

“We need people in all related occupations, from chefs to bar staff..

There is a shortage of chefs and cooks, particularly in ethnic cuisines, as well as experienced managers..

MasterChef has showcased the industry as an exciting, passionate and viable industry as a career choice..

But it’s important to pay attention to the business skills required to run a

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PWF has found the TRI Community Exchange (TRI) on Twitter. TRI is a NSW community info exchange that has been in operation since 1992. They’re dealing with:

Suicide & Self Harm Prevention- TRI has just launched a national suicide/self harm You Tube channel. They’re asking for feedback.

Hunger In Australia - TRI is also reporting on the silent epidemic in Australia – familes/peope who do not get enough to eat.

Jessica Burke from Foodbank Australia says it’s estimated up to a million Australian children don’t get enough to eat, often going to bed without dinner or to school without breakfast.

It’s a hidden issue because it is often not understood in the broader community that people in Australia go …

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Doug and Fiona Nicholson have emailed to say they are looking for a caretaker to look after their sheep and cattle property NW of Winton in Queensland’s outback.

They need someone from 22nd September to 2nd October 2010.

This ‘someone’ would be required to clean troughs, feed the animals and water the garden.

An interest in rural living and outback Queensland would be an advantage.

For More Info

Contact Doug and Fiona Nicholson Ph 07 46573833, email fuglyandfloss@bigpond.com

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The ABC’s Inside Business has provided a very positive picture of a Hepburn Wind an Australian community owned social enterprise.

This registered cooperative is Australia’s first community owned wind farm.

A Strong Conclusion From Collaboration

Hepburn Wind chairman, Simon Holmes a Court’s concluding statement to reporter Rebecca Nash says it all:

“There’s a real appreciation that we can get on and take constructive action right now. We don’t have to wait for government, we don’t have to wait for a CPRS. We can take action today on climate change.”

The Inside Business Hepburn Wind Discussion

SIMON HOLMES À COURT: We’ve unlocked a whole new class of investor. The community social enterprise investor. We’ve shown that given the opportunity the

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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 Input Into Aged Care Packages?

The following story about a 92 year old mum written by her daughter, Margaret Gray, recently arrived in my email from www.civilsociety.org.au and appalled me.

The message is about ‘Consumer Directed Care in Aged Care, Disability and Family Services’.

“My mother will be 92 in November. She has no dementia but is ACAS-assessed as High Care as she is wheelchair bound and frail. She lives with my husband and I in outer metropolitan Melbourne in

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