August
August 27, 2009
I have been inspired by a list (!)…of entrepreneurial profiles and exploits. Social enterprise at its inspirational best will be up for discussion 6-8 October 2009 at the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF), Melbourne, co-hosted by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) […]
August 26, 2009
A reader has alerted us to Choice Magazine’s passionate response from CEO Nick Stace to the decision of Craig Emerson, the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affair’s to pull the grocery price comparison site – GroceryChoice – five days […]
August 24, 2009
A very lucid reader has contacted PWF about several infrastructure projects to which there have been viable alternatives but which have not been discussed in a public forum. Let’s have that discussion… starting with drought-struck Victoria’s desalination plant at Wonthaggi. […]
August 23, 2009
Silence allows the suffering of our Indigenous communities to continue writes Ernest Hunter, a psychiatrist who has worked for many years in remote Queensland. A ‘Frozen Mass Of Lessons Not Learned’ Ernest speaks of hundreds if not thousands of failed […]
August 23, 2009
The Family Action Centre (FAC) at the University of Newcastle, NSW, believes family wellbeing is the cornerstone of healthy communities, it exists to strengthen families and communities promoting sustainability, social justice and community leadership. After starting out in 1986 with […]
August 20, 2009
Toby Smith is the Toby in NSW-based Toby’s Estate Arabica Coffee which has recently launched a social, ethical and environmental (SEE) responsibility project. About Toby Toby is passionate about coffee. He has trekked in Central and South America, Indonesia, India […]
August 20, 2009
Working in partnership with Tanya Ha – author, TV presenter, enviro champion and mother of two – Melbourne’s Hobson’s Bay City Council recently developed and ran a series of 8 ‘Mama Green’ workshops to teach Mums – and Dads – […]
August 18, 2009
Sean Riley is a small business operator with a passion for giving it to larger companies that waste his time. He set up iHateHolding.com after many moments of frustration with phone prompt navigation that we all unwillingly endure! How To […]
August 18, 2009
EVERYONE needs holidays. ARE our tourism operators aware of the demand for holidays for people with disabilities? Small tourism businesses – especially regional operators – do not do well in difficult economic times and yet as Sheila King of the […]
August 14, 2009
Fred Hollows Foundation chief Brian Doolan has echoed the much loved and honoured opthamalogist’s observations that red tape entangled legislation and bureaucracy is NOT the best way to deliver services to remote Aboriginal Australia. Brain applauds “flexibility and moving decision-making […]
August 12, 2009
Genevieve Gannon writing in The Melbourne Times 5.08.09 reports that the State Government will donate $2 for every single dollar raised by Melbourne’s Inner North Community Foundation – up to $100,000. It has also committed $100,000 ‘upfront’ – a potential […]
August 4, 2009
A selection of tourism, government and community leaders from five of Australia’s key tourism destinations have identified more than 40 potential tourism-focused climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies to be considered by national research projects in the light of the […]