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australia.coop and victoria.coop
Last Updated on Thursday, 22 October 2009 12:07 Written by David Griffiths Thursday, 22 October 2009 07:29
australia.coop was originally established in 2003 by the Co-operative Federation of Victoria Ltd (Co-operatives Victoria). In establishing australia.coop, Co-operatives Victoria hoped that eventually the web site would be run by and for the Australian co-operative movement.Co-operatives Australia has agreed to assume responsibility for australia.coop from October 2009. Co-operatives Australia is the national body for State Co-operative Federations. It is an unincorporated body with membership by the Co-operative Federations of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, and represents co-operatives in every sector of the Australian economy.
As a consequence, Co-operatives Victoria has now established this new web site: http://www.victoria.coop
Top Co-op Educator in Australia
Last Updated on Sunday, 04 March 2012 05:04 Written by David Griffiths Sunday, 12 February 2012 00:16
The Chief Executive and Principal of the UK Co-operative College, Mervyn Wilson, will be visiting Australia between 26 February - 10 March 2012.Mervyn Wilson has worked in the co-operative sector for over thirty years, primarily in the field of member education, co-operative identity and governance. He has worked with co-operatives throughout the world and led the development of co-operative trust schools and their national network. His work to secure the co-operative movement's heritage and use it as a learning resource included the development of the National Co-operative Archive and the establishment of the Co-operative Heritage Trust. Mervyn is a co-chair of the global Human Resources Committee of the International Co-operative Alliance, a Trustee of the Co-operative Heritage Trust and the Reddish Vale Trust and a Fellow of the RSA.
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CNL Through NSW Parliament
Written by David Griffiths Friday, 11 May 2012 01:53
Co-operatives National Law has been passed by the New South Wales Parliament. The New South Wales Fair Trading Minister, Anthony Roberts, said the legislation would emower co-operatives, slash red tape and reduce costs.
Co-operatives National Law Progress
Last Updated on Monday, 23 April 2012 03:06 Written by David Griffiths Monday, 23 April 2012 03:02
The Co-operatives (Adoption of National Law) Bill 2012 was introduced into the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on 4 April 2012 by the Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts. NSW is the lead jurisdiction. Once the Law is passed by the NSW Parliament, other States and Territotries will apply the same laws, or alternative, consistent laws, in their own jurisdiction. Debate on the Bill has been deferred until the next sittings of Parliament. Click here for the text of the bill, the explanatory notes and the Minister's speech on the Bill.
australia.coop Relaunched
Written by David Griffiths Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:17
The australia.coop web site has been redesigned incorporating the open source software Joomla. The site was originally established in January 2003 - the first Dot Coop country portal.Key features of the redesign include a searchable and dynamic calendar, website accessibility, the capacity to email and pdf content, an RSS feed and two new sub-domains - Co-operative Education and Co-operative Health.
The site also incorporates a new logo for Co-operatives Victoria.
Wherever possible, the pages on the site have been designed to meet the Level-AA standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide web Consortium (W3C).
Another feature of the site is a Co-operative Governance email newsletter to provide site updates for subscribers to the newsletter. The Co-operative Education and Co-operative Health sub-domains also have newsletters.
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