2000000 people in Australia are unemployed under-employed or are on disability benefits.

And instead of training Australians who want to work to acquire real work skills we import skilled workers from read more

The Australian Taxation Office has identified more than 100000 “lost” superannuation accounts worth a total of $424 million (about half of them from our local electorates of Dickson and Ryan).

Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) is commencing a 26 week National Green Jobs Corps project with training & practical work experience in Brisbane.

If you are 17-24 and was a pathway to employment read more

Consumer debt would have to be one of the big hurdles the Transition movement sees to becoming resilient in the face of peaking resources. Living entirely debt-free provides marvellous peace of mind.

Which read more

Richard Heinberg propose a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable read more

We have very few manufacturing businesses in The Grove and those we do have aren’t necessarily competing with imports. For example someone growing vegetable seedlings for sale at the Ferny Grove read more

National Garage Sale Trail 10th April. Register online. The aim is to have hundreds of garage sales on the same day with a map to help guide shoppers to them. Registered sale-holders are asked to donate read more

Mid-year economic update of projected deficits (national) are:

$41.5 billion for 2010-11 (3.0% of GDP)
$12.3 billion for 2011-12
Surplus in 2012-13

This month (October) is Buy Nothing New Month encouraging people to shop only for essentials – food toiletries medications.

Instead of shopping the organisers are calling on people to buy second-hand read more