Archive for August, 2005

The Koorie Heritage Trust – Making a difference!

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Pre-contact, historic and contemporary artefacts, artworks and photographs make up the Koorie Heritage Trust’s curatorial collection – unique in its focus on south-eastern indigenous culture.

The Collection is housed at the Trust’s Cultural Centre on the corner of Little Lonsdale Street

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A joint approach to transport issues in rural & remote Victorian towns

A really good news story has been pased on by Orbost Neighbourhood House Coordinator, Mary McDonald – the story of the ‘Let’s GET Connected – Gippsland East Transport Project – a partnership between Wellington and East Gippsland Shires.

The nine

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Success from an emergency community response to a Seastar outbreak

Recent surveys in the coastal Victorian town of Inverloch show that the concerted January 2004 emergency response by the Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE)and over 300 volunteers appears to have prevented a spread of the Northern Pacific Seastar –

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A ‘Future of Tourism Workshop’ for Baw Baw Shire, Victoria.

Tourism operators, council officers and Baw Baw Tourism Board members met recently in Melbourne with Tourism Victoria officers. Bill Fox, Manager Regional Tourism, led the way.

THREE KEY CHALLENGES:1) Identify key actions that will make a differencea. Have

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Melbourne Architects’ Broome House wins HIA Greensmart Energy Efficiency Award

The ‘Filter House’ Broome, designed to capture cooling breezes while also providing protection from prevailing easterly winds has won architects David Oppenheim and Chris Barnett of Sustainable Built Environments a 2005 Greensmart energy efficieny award.

The finished house is the culmination

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