Please find featured below and attached the Spring 2015 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN):

Please find featured below and attached the Autumn 2015 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network:

Please find attached the Spring 2014 newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network. This includes reports of the recent Learning Cities workshops in Frankston, Canberra and Townsville, at which Mike Osborne, PASCAL director in Europe, spoke (and much more).

The town of Bingara lies within the Shire of Gwydir in North Western New South Wales.

It faces problems similar to other parts of rural Australia: declining population with resultant lack of employment opportunities; withdrawal of services to provincial and even metropolitan cities; and a difficult future maintaining its viability.