Archive for September, 2005

A busy Neighbourhood House needs funding & volunteers

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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

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Tourism success for prizewinning cheesemaking partnership in Maleny, Queensland

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

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‘Living Green’ at the Surf Coast Community Centre Torquay, Vic.

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 and

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Longterm unemployed trained to maintain their own public housing estate

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

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Cultural heritage and tourism opportunities in Murray Bridge SA

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 –

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