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What exactly is Social Innovation?

January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation

People often ask me what Social Innovation is and my answer constantly evolves, but I strongly feel that it’s importance will continue to emerge. Social Innovation is finding solutions to the social, cultural and environmental challenges we together face. The world and our society has experienced unprecedented growth in the last 100 years. While we [...]

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Power to the people

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics

Going into this election it felt like a mass wave of disapproval across the country of the way the election campaign had become “a fight between 2 dogs” as Rob Oakshott so eloquently put it. The outcome, of a hung parliament, was a great way of the people demonstrating this dissatisfaction. Before voting, I worried [...]

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Change Politics in Australia

August 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics

Australia now has it’s first hung parliament in 70 years. The people  spoke and told our politicians they were unhappy with the way they conduct themselves and the way this campaign was run. But can it change? And, if it does, can we maintain it? As many of you who follow my tweets and read [...]

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Everyone’s talking at Sydney’s first Social Innovation BarCamp

August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, personal development

Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010  was the inaugural BarCamp discussing Social Innovation. An interesting and diverse range of people participated in conversation and activity throughout the day. “the vision for running the Social Innovation BarCamp is to provide a place for people to engage. There are many intelligent and effective people, from various fields, across the [...]

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The green future makers & the politicians

July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Environment, sustainability

Australia is behind the rest of the world when it comes to developing sustainable energy. Yet we lead, especially in Asia, in education and research. Why is this? How can we make progress in these areas? Monday night was an interesting mix of the Future Makers documentary ~ Australians leading the way in sustainable energy, and [...]

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