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  • Co-operative Research Group Seminar
    The Co-operative Research Group at the University of Sydney has organised a seminar on 26 August 2010 with Professor Francesco Capalbo and Professor Frank Clarke. Professor Capalbo (Second University of Naples) will address The Co-operative Experience in Italy. Professor Clarke (University of Sydney) will address Co-operative case study: Death of a co-operative.
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    Details of the Co-operative Group activities are listed on the website
  • Ownership and Australia's newest political party
    The Parents, Families and Carers Party has released a Family and Small Business and Economic Ownership Policy for the Federal election in Australia to be held on 21 August 2010. It is the only party that has developed a policy based on ownership.
  • South West Slopes Country Credit Union
    ABACUS Australian Mutuals has announced that South West Slopes Credit Union has won the distinction of being the first Australian Credit Licensee under new laws regulating consumer credit.South West Slopes Credit Union is a community credit union operating in south western NSW, including the towns of Young, Cootamundra, West Wyalong, Harden, Boorowa and Temora.
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  • Competitive Banking in Australia
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    According to ABACUS Australian Mutuals research out today revealing that three in four Australians believe the big four banks have too much market power should trigger action to promote a more competitive banking market.The Australia Institute research paper Money and power says one in five people, or three million Australians, believe that a bank with bigger profits is safer and that younger people are much more likely to believe that a bank with big profits is safer.
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  • Australian IYC Steering Committee
    The first Australian IYC Steering Committee meeting will be held in Sydney on Monday 30 August 2010. The Chairman of the Steering Committee is Trent Bartlett.  The Steering Committee is being resourced by Social Business Australia.  The IYC aims at raising awareness on the socio-economic impact of co-operatives, and for promoting the autonomous formation and growth of co-operatives. For more on the International Year of Co-operatives Steering Committee visit the web site of the International Co-operative Alliance.
  • Housing Co-operative History
    The SouthEast Housing Co-operative Ltd in Dandenong, Victoria,will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in October 2010. As part of the celebrations a booklet will be published on the co-operative.  The booklet will outline the experience of rental housing co-operatives since 1985 qand the external and internal challenges over the years. While SouthEast Housing Co-operative Ltd was formed in 2000, the co-operatives that merged at the time were originally formed in 1985.
  • Mutuality and Taxable income
    The Australian Taxation Office has published a guide on Mutuality and taxable income. The guide is for non-profit clubs, societies and associations that are taxable.  It can be downloaded as a pdf from the ATO web site.

Co-operative Education

Co-operative Education in Australia

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 13:22 Written by David Griffiths Saturday, 07 March 2009 00:40

Co-operatives Victoria has had a long-term commitment to the importance of co-operative education to the co-operative movement in Victoria.

This commitment became a practical reality with the work of the former Deputy Chairman, Graeme Charles, and the Co-operative College in the UK - bringing to Australia an unique co=operative education history, knowledge and skill sets.

The establishment of this Co-operative Education sub domain is intended to affirm and accentuate Co-operatives Victoria's commitment to co-operative education.

 

Co-operative Education in New Zealand

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 21:48 Written by David Griffiths Tuesday, 07 July 2009 07:30

Two co-operative education seminars are being organised in New Zealand by the New Zealand Cooperatives Association. The Association argues: " It's only at these seminars that you can spend quality time with directors and executives who walk the walk, and talk the talk when it comes to mutually owned business."

The two co-operative education seminars will be in August 2009:

For Directors & Members - 13 & 14 August 2009.

For Executive Managers - 27 & 29 August 2009.

The seminars will be at the Brentwood Hotel, Kern St, Kilbirnie, Wellington.

For more information: New Zealand Cooperatives Association. E: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Skype: nz.coop  Web: www.nz.coop

 

Mutuality at Work in New Zealand

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Written by David Griffiths Monday, 09 August 2010 22:17

The New Zealand Cooperatives Association will be running a co-operative education seminar in Wellington, New Zealand, on 19 & 20 August 2010 entitled Mutuality At Work - Ensuring A Successful Cooperative Business.  Papers to be presented include A Cooperative Way of Banking, Using Information to Better Manage Your Co-op and 46 Years and Going from Strength to Strength - The story of a shared service co-operative. For more information visit the web site of the New Zealand Cooperatives Association.

   

Co-operative Publications

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Last Updated on Monday, 02 August 2010 06:16 Written by David Griffiths Thursday, 01 April 2010 09:47

Co-operatives Australia has issued a number of important statements - Public Policy and Co-operatives (April 2009), Australia's Top 100 Co-operatives, Credit Unions and Mutuals (June 2009), Co-operative Education (March 2010) and Valuing Co-operation (April 2010). All these statements can be accessed at the Co-operatives Australia web site at http://www.australia.coop/ca/publications

 

The Co-operative Bumblebee

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Written by David Griffiths Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:00

Review of an important book by Ivano Barberini -How The Bumblebee Flies - Cooperation, Ethics and Development. Barberini was born in Modena, Italy, in 1939 and died on 6 May 2009. when he died he had been President of the International Cooperative Alliance since 2001. The book was published by Baldini Castoldi Dalai in 2009.

   

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