At one extreme master planned 'communities' can be soulless,sterile suburbs. The danger at the other extreme is social engineering. The question I have is can a city with character and soul be created without community input?

I went down to the Caloundra South display centre yesterday and spent a few hours with a friend discussing the possiblities and problems.  More >>

Australian's of the Year, our leading lights for 2011, are right up our ally.  Simon McKeon, a social entrepreneur, equal rights campaigner Professor Ron McCallum and round the world sailer Jessica Watson.  Local Hero of the Year is Donald Ritchie who lives near The Gap in Sydney, a notorious location for people intent on ending their lives by jumping off the cliff. Three men concerned with social issues and a young lady from Queensland. More >>

People with disabilities should be able to join in mainstream society, have fun and enjoy cultural activities like anyone else. More >>

Carbon reduction and keep all the mod cons?  It's really just about spreading the word..... More >>

We've been to Hel(met) and back in the last week!   The rights and wrongs of wearing bicycle helmets have been passionately discussed in the paper (mostly online) and on radio over the last couple of weeks.  Fact is it is illegal not to.   More >>

When Bettina suggested we construct a labyrinth it immediately sent my neurons firing off in all directions ( read ' I thought it was a good idea')!
It was the art project that finally surfaced from all that activity up there in my head.  But that was only the start of it (and may well be the end of me)  – imagine a 6m x 6m canvas!  More >>

And perhaps rightly so.  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) asked whether the day, 11 July WAS in truth, a day to celebrate.   Amongst its aims this group is promoting urban and rural lifestyles and practices that are in harmony with the realities of the Australian environment, its resource base and its biodiversity.  Very Us, huh? More >>

The one thing population growth has going for it is employment, albeit short term, cyclical, relatively unimaginative, relatively unsafe, deadline and profit driven, generally without a career path unless you belong to one of the few large construction companies and it doesn’t employ a lot of women. More >>

This has always been my personal motto to life. I am a proud Wakka Kabi / Bidjer Carra women. Events in my life and family’s life have created strong spiritual connection to my ancestral county, on both my mothers’ country and my fathers’ country.  More >>