June
June 30, 2006
Feeling better & reconnecting physically & spiritually I have just read about more and more ‘well-heeled but work stressed international travellers’ visiting Australia who are looking for an ‘ayashi’ experience – Japanese for ‘roughing it in luxury’. Ayashi is all […]
June 29, 2006
Background info, some basics & a few helpful links Our first PWF Technology article introduced RSS, a simple way to read favourite news/newsletter headlines in one place on your computer. Today we’re talking about how to get a ‘reader’ so […]
June 28, 2006
3 Beechworth jobs saved – delivery changes ‘off the agenda’ Beechworth residents are still working to keep the Post Office as a corporate office and, hopefully, a further 4 jobs in the town. Australia Post has ‘deferred’ the plan to […]
June 27, 2006
Fortnightly(!) fruit & veg part of a multi-layered problem Collaboration on delivery of perishable goods to remote Indigenous communities seems to have been a standout point at an Adelaide conference this week. Community leaders, store managers & freight companies looked […]
June 27, 2006
A business opportunity for Indigenous communities? There have been reports in the Australian media about camel pests and the possibility of exporting the meat. Problems that have to be faced are: the lack of abattoirs; transport; establishing markets. After reading […]
June 26, 2006
US Survey rocks established beliefs on CSR I was really interested to read – in ProBono’s latest newsletter – about a new US opinion survey. Contrary to what has been generally accepted to date, nearly one in two American consumers […]
June 26, 2006
Dirt, dust, speed & some enviro concerns… Although it’s been four years since pastoralists south of Alice Springs have had any decent rain, for a while they were able to forget about the lack of stock feed and relax trackside […]
June 22, 2006
Good news for oil mallee growers Up to 10 oil-mallee processing plants are planned in regional WA, south west of Perth – a successful outcome to a huge collaborative affort in experimental Integrated Wood Processing (IWP), designed to address greenhouse […]
June 22, 2006
Queensland scientist – a gene to eliminate female toads Just in case you haven’t caught up with this new approach… ….The Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Queensland, Peter Koopman, is working on a ‘daughterless gene‘ that ensures […]
June 21, 2006
Weekly website hits jump 71% since late Feb launch Scott Morrison of Tourism Australia says: (People) are seeing it and they are responding to it and are doing so in every single country where we are running it……Website visitations in […]
June 20, 2006
The GetUp petition needs more signatures…now. A Senate Committee reviewing the proposed offshore refugee processing law has recommended it be rejected entirely, or at least seriously amended and politicians from all the major parties – including 10 Coalition backbenchers – […]
June 20, 2006
Lonely Planet poll puts Australia number one again in UK Young travellers in the UK have voted Australia the country they most want to visit next, moving up from third place last year and now ahead of the US, Thailand, […]