News reports are short articles on research and development of co-operatives and the social economy. They focus on community and cooperative research activities and draw attention to the work of the co-operative sector in general.

If you know something that you believe would make a good news report, or you want to learn more about something you've read here, contact the editor of the CCC eNews published by CACOM: suzanne.henderson@uts.edu.au.

• Youth Reinventing Co-operatives an Australian perspective
  
• Young people are the future
  
• Young entrepreneurs in Kashmir
  
• Young Co-Operatives and Fairtrade
  
• Womens' co-operatives in Nepal
  
• Wimmera 2020
  
• Why do we need affordable housing?
  
• Why co-operatives work - competitive advantages of co-operatives
  
• What is Social Enterprise?
  
• Welcoming co-operators from Brazil
  
• Wealth creation and social enterprises in the UK
  
• Waste into Wealth seminar
  
• Valuing social enterprise
  
• UTS/CSU/ACCORD successful in ARC grant
  
• US Co-operatives saved from insolvency by FACB decision
  
• UK's Third Sector - Lessons for Australia
  
• UK social enterprise takes lead from the Scandinavians
  
• UK government announces social enterprise policy
  
• UK Farmers' co-ops reduce risk
  
• Towards a national network for the community finance sector
  
• Third Sector under the spotlight
  
• The Wales Co-operative Centre Ltd
  
• The Views of Inactive Members to be Considered in Members Schemes of Arrangements
  
• The Power of New Ideas
  
• The Nonprofit Sector in Australia: A Fact Sheet
  
• The New Business of Human Services
  
• The Maleny Working Together project: the journey
  
• The Franchising Code of Conduct
  
• The forgotten retailers of Rochdale
  
• The evolution of the Holiday Coast Credit Union
  
• The Democracy Principle
  
• The Credit Union difference
  
• The concept of mutuality is not widely understood by Western Australians
  
• The Benefits of Belonging
  
• Tax and the spirit of giving
  
• Support for cooperatives runs high
  
• Summary of Futures and Choices Conference
  
• Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry into the Options for Banking and Financial S
  
• Submission in Response to the Regional Business Development Analysis Questions Paper
  
• Strengthening Co-operative Housing in NSW
  
• Straight A's for Maleny coop
  
• Special role for unions
  
• Social Entrepreneurs Network (SEN) Conference
  
• Social entrepreneur sees vibrant future for ecologically run worker co-ops
  
• Social Enterprise means business
  
• Social enterprise expands in UK
  
• Social enterprise and the rise of the 'pro-am'
  
• Social Enterprise
  
• Social Capital and substance abuse
  
• Scotland recognises the co-operative advantage
  
• Sailing Determinedly Against the Wind: CreditCare, Australia 1995-2000
  
• Researching the sector … where to from here?
  
• Proposed Community Development Finance Institutions
  
• Promoting fair trade in the UK
  
• Post-grad Community Management Program
  
• Philanthropy Australia Conference, University of NSW, 17-18 March 2003
  
• Perspective on UK social enterprise
  
• Pauline Green sees co-operative renaissance
  
• Parnell characteristics of cooperatives
  
• Ownership Strategies at The Mercury Centre
  
• Ownership Strategies at The Mercury Centre
  
• Organizing out of Poverty
  
• Organics Industry Grows on the Mid north coast
  
• Opening address - Ethnic Communities Building Better Australian Cities and Towns
  
• One size fits all policy concerns parents
  
• One City one Site
  
• Old, Wise and Active
  
• Number of Active Co-ops in NSW Reaches 820
  
• News from the ICA
  
• New Zealander co-operators scope the pool
  
• New UK organisation promotes employee buy-outs
  
• New partnerships: Promoting development in outback towns through voluntary programs for grey nomads
  
• New Law to Regulate Co-operative Societies in Nairobi
  
• New Internet Domain .coop to Launch on 30 January 2002
  
• New Disclosure Requirements for Trading Co-operatives
  
• New Co-operatives Research Project Initiated
  
• New Co-operatives Research Project
  
• New Co-operatives
  
• Networks, virtual and place-based
  
• Mutuality misunderstood
  
• Mutual Status of Non Profit Organisations Restored
  
• More on employee share ownership in Australia
  
• More on Business Networks
  
• More from the Brits - Community Strengthening and the role of local government
  
• Mondragon
  
• Masters degrees for Co-operative and Credit Union Managers
  
• Master Co-operative Communicator Program
  
• Main Reason for Demutualisation is Ideological
  
• Maari Ma Health wins ATSIC grant
  
• Looking after member interests in Australia
  
• Levels of Compliance
  
• Let's organise
  
• Investment incentives on share capital
  
• International co-operatives leader visits Sydney
  
• Inquiry into Community Housing being held
  
• Innovative co-operative approaches to business and community endeavours
  
• ICMIF biennial conference
  
• ICA Tsunami appeal
  
• How healthy are our associations?
  
• How car insurance can help polar bears
  
• Housing Co-ops - Building Bridges with Government
  
• HIV/AIDS and Cooperatives
  
• Health Co-operatives: A Viable Solution in Health Service Delivery?
  
• Harnessing renewable energy in the USA
  
• Government backs community buyouts
  
• Good governance and cooperatives
  
• Global priorities
  
• Global network connects social entrepreneurs
  
• Global network connects social entrepreneurs
  
• Get healthy the co-operative way
  
• Funeral pre-payments protected
  
• Fuel co-op may save hip pocket
  
• Friends from the Philippines visit Australian Co-ops
  
• Flexible postgraduate Community Management courses at UTS
  
• First community-owned wind farm ready to turn
  
• Finance and Regional Development
  
• Fighting demutualization in the Netherlands
  
• Field day creates interest in co-operative businesses
  
• Excellence in the not-for-profit sector
  
• Examination of Public Policy on Co-operatives
  
• European Dairy Co-operatives top-20
  
• Ethnic communities, building better cities and towns
  
• Ethnic Communities Building Better Australian Cities and Towns
  
• Enterprising nonprofits attract growing criticism from business and government
  
• Employees share in baby-boomer dilemma
  
• Employee Share Ownership Down-under
  
• Employee ownership for Small and Medium Enterprises: Three new models
  
• Employee buyout seminar
  
• E-mail Lists on Co-operatives
  
• Don't bury the treasure in landfill says UK expert
  
• Discretionary Mutuals
  
• Developing Directors for the co-operative advantage
  
• Defining Social enterprise
  
• CUFA and the co-op model: new skills and action plans
  
• Credit Unions address a social need
  
• Creating a culture of new social business
  
• Cooperatives: Principles and Practices in the Twenty-First Century
  
• Cooperative opportunities
  
• Cooperative Events
  
• Cooperative enterprises - grossly misunderstood
  
• Cooperation and the politics of consumption
  
• Cooperating out of disaster
  
• Consistent Cooperative Legislation
  
• Community Finance Summit
  
• Community Economic Development Service
  
• Community Development Finance Institutions - developments in the USA and the UK
  
• Community co-operatives - a model for rural community vitalisation
  
• Committed Mutual Structure
  
• Commiserations and tributes keep flowing in
  
• Colloquium on the Contribution of the Cooperative Sector to Housing Development
  
• Co-ops Learn to Thrive in a Competitive Economy
  
• Co-ops help Co-ops in Malaysia
  
• Co-ops fight rural poverty in Asia Pacific
  
• Co-ops and mutuals fight on
  
• Co-operatives for Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All
  
• Co-operatives Creating Value Workshop place in text box
  
• Co-operatives can now frank dividends
  
• Co-operatives and Social Enterprise: The UK Experience
  
• Co-operatives and Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities
  
• Co-operatives - the other world game
  
• Co-operative Learning Centre
  
• Co-operative housing - seen to be part of the solution to Canada's housing crisis
  
• Co-operative Governance
  
• Co-operative Education In Victoria
  
• Co-operative development Grants Program
  
• Co-operative and Regional Development Strategy
  
• Co-op promotes organic farming
  
• Canadian PM announces big $$$ for social economy
  
• Canadian expert on Indigenous organisations visits Australia
  
• British PM backs social enterprise
  
• Breaking News
  
• Best practice grounded in frontline workers
  
• Benefits of maintaining mutual status
  
• BCICS launches an International Co-operative Registry for researchers and publications
  
• BARWON DARLING CO-OPERATIVE PILOT PROPOSAL
  
• Australian Social Policy Conference
  
• Australian Liquor Co-operative
  
• Australia Pacific Exchange Limited (APX)
  
• Australia lacks community financing initiatives
  
• Asia Pacific Co-operative Ministers Meet to Consider Co-operative Policy and Legislation
  
• Are worker co-ops good for your health?
  
• Are coops good for your health?
  
• An introduction to fair trade and cooperatives
  
• An Exploration of Contemporary Meanings of Social Enterprise
  
• An Annotated Bibliography on Agricultural Co-operatives Released
  
• An ACCORD Initiative: Community Development Finance Institutions Research Project
  
• Amendments to the Co-operatives Act 1992 Passed
  
• ACCORD to take leading role in promoting adoption of ILO Resolution on Co-operatives
  
• ACCORD Seminar in Bathurst
  
• ACCORD Membership Project
  
• ACCORD in the media - Loyalty - a key competitive advantage
  
• ACCORD goes to CASC
  
• Accord between Canadian Government and the Voluntary Sector
  
• ACCORD 2004 Yearbook Launched
  
• A tribute to cooperative vision and guidance
  
• A review of deregistered co-operatives in NSW - perception v reality
  
• A home-grown example
  
• "The Financing of Social Enterprises: A special report" by the Bank of England