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Grain growers create a shared future |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
The Australian grains industry has adopted a futures research approach
to the development of its national industry strategy, in one of the
most integrated industry perspectives ever developed. "The program
combines formal industry analyses with strategic futures forum and
consultation procedures," said Colin Benjamin of 'Life. Be in it'.
International, convenor of the Australian Grains Production And Value
Chains Forums.
"This was the basis of the Australian Grains
Industry Single Vision 2005-2025 program, launched by the Prime
Minister at Grains Week 2004 in Perth.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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Global SchoolNet: where futures meets education |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
The international online learning network, Global SchoolNet, has
announced a new partnership with the World Future Society that will
help it engage youth worldwide in future-oriented educational
experiences. Reaching out to young people to help them become more
responsible global citizens is the goal of the network, which includes
more than 70,000 online educators. Now it will work with the WFS to
provide valuable tools for meeting that goal, announced WFS President
Timothy C. Mack this week (August 2004).
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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Want a job? Try self-service |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
With virtually no growth in full-time employment in the last 25 years,
how do we envisage the future of work? What do we tell our children
about the skills they will need? Can today's young expect to have
employers? Are schools and universities helping them learn the skills
they will need, whether employed or not?
These questions were discussed by Futures Foundation members at meetings in Sydney and Melbourne in March 2004.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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Can "Simultaneous Policy" create global cooperation? |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
Understanding how cooperation has worked through millennia of evolution
can help humanity as it faces a critical crisis of survival on planet
Earth. What we can learn from that cooperation might make survival
possible, says John Bunzl, founder of the International Simultaneous
Policy Organisation. What is Simultaneous Policy? Here are extracts
from a paper in which he explains.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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AUSTRALIA'S HEALTH SYSTEM: How to fix the mess |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
Emeritus Professor the Hon. Peter Baume, AO, Chancellor of the
Australian National University, is a former board member of the Futures
Foundation.
He is also a specialist in internal medicine and a former Australian
Senator who held a range of portfolios including that of Federal
Minister for Health.
Dr Baume recently retired from the position of Head of the School of
Community Health at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 January 2005 )
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