September
September 22, 2005
Melbourne’s Prahran Neighbourhood House (PNH)is a busy centre for more than 20 cultural groups. Each week programs bring around 2000 people to the centre and classes attract another 740. This week PNH was listed in ‘Your Guide to Victoria’s NOT […]
September 22, 2005
Markus Bucher, Swiss ‘Master Cheesemaker’ and David Simpson a third generation dairy farmer who wanted to value-add after dairy deregulation had sent milk prices plummeting, met at a local agricultural show. Markus and Sara Bucher and David and Heather Simpson […]
September 21, 2005
A wide range of community organisations centred around the Spring Creek Community Centre will run their sixth ‘Living sustainably-living green’ event at the Surfworld in Beach Rd Torquay, on October 23rd. There will be guided tours of local eco-friendly houses […]
September 21, 2005
To tackle job creation, the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) is forming partnerships with government, business, welfare and other groups. Melbourne’s Collingwood and Fitzroy public housing estates needed maintenance workers, so BSL, in partnership with the state government, trained 24 […]
September 21, 2005
After a lot of hard work by a lot of people, the new Pomberuk Cultural Centre, at the old pumphouse in Murray Bridge SA, opened in August 2005. Since buying the land – very significant to the Ngarrindjeri people – […]
September 21, 2005
Community, cultural, environmental and recreational groups in SA’s Coorong region will help stage the ‘Meet the Waders Festival’ September 1 to November 30 – a model that could be adopted where a region experiences a natural wonder and wants to […]
September 21, 2005
Fifteen years ago, Blerick Mudbrick Cottages and Tree Farm, in Gippsland Victoria, was just a bare paddock, part of an old dairy farm. Back then, teachers Michelle and Ron Geritz began work building a mudbrick cottage and lived in ‘the […]
September 21, 2005
A $77M BIODIESEL PROJECT, the largest in Australia, is being constructed in the Darwin Business Park at East Arm – a new industry for the NT which should create more than 100 jobs. In Europe and America biodiesel fuel is […]
September 21, 2005
Audax Australia is a national long distance cycling club of French origin. The Indigo Classic @ Beechworth, on Sunday 27 November 2005, in Victoria’s picturesque northeast will be Indigo Shire’s inaugural Audax one-day cycling event. The event will offer cyclists […]
September 21, 2005
Seven hundred new houses will be built in Lyons, Darwin, due to the relocation of the 1st Aviation Regiment from Queensland to support the Army’s new Tiger reconnaissance helicopters. A new agreement states that the Lyons Development Corporation will employ […]
September 21, 2005
The cotton industry’s women’s network (Wincott) sounds as though it’s firing on all cylinders! On the discussion list at their recent AGM in Narrabri, NSW there was: 1)an ‘easy to understand’ talk on broadband;2)the launch of www.wincott.net.au & congratulations to […]
September 7, 2005
Using the new website’s powerful search engine, holidaymakers planning a trip can browse by a number of key topics ranging from luxury spa cabins and wine tasting to heated pools and farm-stays. The ‘at a glance’ map of Australia clearly […]