The Rio Tinto WA Future Fund publishes a quarterly newsletter "Future Matters" that describes current partner events and activities. A selection of articles are included below together with a number of other news items.
The STAR of the Oscars
24 September 2007
Nicknamed the 'Oscars of Science', the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are Australia's premier science awards and one of this year's shining stars was Murdoch University.
Arts partnering awarded
24 September 2007
The Better Beginnings early literacy programme has been recognised at the prestigious Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) awards receiving the Toyota Community Award for Western Australia.
Prime Minister loves thrill of science
28 August 2007
The innovative Kids' Science State program, which delivers science learning to more than 100 thousand regional Western Australians each year via a fleet of bright orange buses, has won the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships (WA).
Duncraig retiree an environmental defender
5 June 2007
Duncraig retiree Alan Page (63) spent his working life in IT developing software for
the defence industry but these days he says it's nature he defends.
Education for all in Kwinana
29 May 2007
Face painters, a children's choir, read out loud sessions, dot painting and arts and crafts were all on show on Friday, 25 May during an event to announce the continued partnership between the Smith Family, HIsmelt and the Future Fund.
Science STAR visits WA students
29 May 2007
Dr Ian MacLeod from the WA Maritime Museum spends most of his time in Indonesia looking at how to minimise pollution in the Pacific Ocean from deteriorating World War II ship wrecks.
Million dollar milestone
28 May 2007
Congratulations go to Future Fund partner the Western Australian Community Foundation (WACF) which celebrated its first $1 million in funds under management on Wednesday, 23 May - a significant milestone for the organisation after just three years in operation.
Working in partnership
28 May 2007
Business and community partnerships were the topic of the day when Rio Tinto Community Investment Advisor Laurie Ball travelled to Kojonup to present to the Working Communities Network.
Lending a green helping hand to Western Australia
9 May 2007
Conservation Volunteers Australia is calling for volunteers to help on a wide range of
environmental conservation projects planned for this year in Western Australia.
To conserve and protect
1 March 2007
After trekking around the globe many years ago, Janene Watts was so concerned by the lack of natural wilderness left in the world she's been conservation volunteering on her home turf ever since.
A new kind of baby boom
1 March 2007
Babies with books have taken over the North West and they're quickly closing in on the rest of the state.
Spotlight shines on Leo
9 February 2007
International attention is focused on ancient fossils discovered in the Nullarbor plains thanks to a feature in renowned scientific journal Nature.
Finding Perth's personality
7 February 2007
If Perth was a person, how would you describe it? Inventive or old-fashioned? A go-getter or reserved? Flexible or set in its ways?