GateWAy Blog

I can’t resist telling you all about the latest success of our Ringwould Cendre, it has won a Gold Medal at the Royal Melbourne Show!!

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After delivering 14 Step 1 seminars of the Small Business Online program, it turns out that many of you already have a website. A lot of you have really good websites. So what’s next??

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Great Southern Personnel (GSP) is an agency that helps people with a disability find a job.  Once a participant is in a job, they will help them to keep that job by liaising with the employer, meeting regularly with the participant and providing ongoing training and support where necessary.

GSP is part of the Disability Employment Services (DES) provided by the government and as such is a not-for-profit organisation.  Located in Aberdeen Street, GSP has been in operation for 14 years.  There are five Employment Coordinators and the Manager, all of whom have lived and worked in Albany for many years and have a strong working knowledge of the employment scene.

GSP staff ensure that participants are empowered and play an active role in their own career development.  The organisation provides support to meet employment goals based on individual needs.  In the initial meeting an Employment Coordinator will spend time with the Participant working out their career goals and forming an individual plan for them.

You can find out more about Great Southern Personnel by looking at their website – gsp.org.au.

If you would like to talk to someone about GSP’s services, please call Alan Triplett on 98421510.

If you have any feedback about the website please call Kate Myors on 98421510.

Great Southern Small Business Online ‘3 Steps  Local to Global’
will provide a series of seminars and workshops to determine how your small business can benefit from an online presence.  Showing you how being online can increase your market reach, explore e – commerce opportunities and help you get online.  This project is an Australian Government funded initiative under the Small Business Online program. (more…)

As an artist , I am always searching for new ideas. An area I have researched often is that of ancient cultures. I am facinated by the textures and aging effects found on primitive pieces of sculpture and pottery and also the sorts of symbols they used to decorate the work. (more…)

With the demise of a local brewery, comments were made by the company spokesman that Albany was not ready for an inovative hospitality industry. It’s not the first time a concept has failed in Albany but has thrived in other cities. Is it true that Albany clings to it’s old habits?  So instead of a trendy Tangleheads, we are getting back “our” White Star Hotel. (more…)

This study examines the effects on small and medium sized enterprises of the Australian Government’s proposals to introduce an emissions trading scheme, known as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). (more…)

In recent years we have seen increased community awareness
about the threats of climate change and its association with the
accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Businesses have also become more aware of the threat of
climate change and, both in response to regulatory measures
and under their own steam, have begun to take action to
measure and manage their carbon footprints. (more…)

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Seminar was held on the 7th October 2009 in Mount Barker. The seminar was designed to provide land managers, local councils, small business operators and residents with the latest information and background on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which may have a major impact on and opportunities for the local economy in the Great Southern. (more…)

Mr Peter Watson, The Member for Albany has been told that the re-development of the old Esplanade Hotel site has been placed on hold indefinitely. (more…)