An Inspirational Gathering of Social Entrepreneurs…
August 27th, 2009I 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 …
Care To Comment On ‘No Reason To Kill GroceryChoice’?
August 26th, 2009A 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 …
Let’s Actually DISCUSS Desal Plants…And OTHER Big Projects?
August 24th, 2009A 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.
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Indigenous Health, Walls Of Silence, Kamehameha Schools…
August 23rd, 2009Silence 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 …
Family Action Centre Workshop Info Sept-Dec ’09
August 23rd, 2009The 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 …
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