Desert Knowledge CRC

For entrepreneurs, startups, and small or mid-size companies, renting or buying a physical office is not always the most affordable and viable solution for their businesses. A brick and mortar office involves higher costs, as the overhead for a physical space can include maintenance, furniture, utilities, insurance, and more. Moreover, traditional offices require a higher payroll, because the employees will have to travel or commute and work in a physical office during all hours of operation.

Therefore, a new entrepreneur or business owner might encounter various challenges during the startup journey. Sometimes, finding alternatives to physical offices and cost-effective strategies that can enhance business growth can be daunting. Taking smart business decisions might not be as easy as it seems at first glance. Nevertheless, having an overall understanding of the differences between a virtual office and a physical office and an accurate definition of virtual offices can help new business owners determine which is the most suitable and worthy solution for their companies. 

What Is A Virtual Office And What Are They Used For – 3 + 1 Definitions

• A virtual office is an office that allows managers and employees to be located anywhere in the world

A business owner or an entrepreneur who is renting a virtual office is actually renting an office “in digital form”, without a designated physical location. A company using a virtual office will have the appearance of a professional business where managers and employers are operating from a professional workplace (meaning a brick and mortar office). Instead, the managers and employees of a company that relies on a virtual office can be located anywhere in the world, as long as they have Internet access. Clients, customers, and suppliers will never know if someone within the company works from a physical …

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Are you looking for a car buyer in Australia for selling your car? If so, you can contact a world-class and leading company namely carbuyers, This company has been serving its customers for many years. You are flexible to sell your cars, caravan, and truck for the best price in the city. The trusted company buys cars in Australia wide. The process of selling a car with this company is very easy and it takes only minimum steps on the whole. You can get the quote by filling a short form available on the website. The consultants of the car company would contact you as soon as you fill in the form. You will get a call from these consultants for knowing about you and your car value. The first discussion will be held over the phone before they come to your place for inspection.

Same day money transfer

After the phone conversations, the inspection team of the car company would come to your place of residence or at your office for car inspection. This task will be held on the same day after the phone call. A straight and clear offer is made by the team when they inspect your car for analyzing its value. Due to the expertise and experience of the team, the whole process is get finished within fifteen minutes. If you are fine with the offer made by the carbuyers at the spot, the company makes the payment through EFT mode at the spot itself. The car company administration team would collect your car once the payment is done as per the terms. Once you realize the money in your account a separate time can be allotted for the car company team to come and transfer the vehicle to their place.

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Are you aware that Sydney is one most renowned Australian business and financial center hosting some of the leading world’s organizations offices? Yes, Sydney city has infinite business opportunities that can see the expansion of your current business to another level. Remember, most millennium companies are looking for a chance to establish their presence using a premium business address available for all markets you wish to develop your business. A virtual office enables your business access to a physical address and any other office-related service without necessarily incurring the long term expenses of leasing an office and the cost of the administrative staff. Your working location isn’t limited to a particular place since your business employees can work from anyplace and have all office duties done such as phone answering services, meeting rooms and mailing address, among others. Remember a virtual office doesn’t have a fixed location since it runs as one part to serve customers from various sites. Such a setup is ideal for small businesses and startups that are looking forward to minimizing their overheads.

Advantages

Some of the advantages of securing a virtual office in Sydney include.

Your business gets access to professional mail forwarding and call handling services better than any other place you may think about in Australia or any other place in the world.

Let your business get the privilege of a prestigious address within a well-established business district. For instance, you get access to professional parcel and mail management services and also accessing comfy meeting rooms, not forgetting the business concierge services as instructed.

Get Access To A Premium Business Address In The Busiest Region Of Sydney.

Do you know that Sydney is among the most populated cities in Australia? Yes, it is the home to some of the leading economic and …

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The Desert Knowledge CRC is a research and brokerage institution that links researchers with 27 partners. The Desert Knowledge CRC focuses these research efforts on creating useful outcomes with commercial application for desert people, communities and our partners. These partners provide in-kind and cash support to the Desert Knowledge CRC.

The Desert Knowledge CRC exists to:

• Provide sustainable livelihoods for desert people that are based on natural resource and service enterprise opportunities that are environmentally and socially appropriate
• Encourage sustainable remote desert settlements that support the presence of desert people, particularly remote Aboriginal communities, as a result of improved and efficient governance and access to services
• Foster thriving desert regional economies that are based on desert competitive advantages, bringing together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, government and industry and
• Apply social science insights into governance, human capacity and the design of appropriate institutions to all these outcomes.

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Bush Tucker is emerging out of the backblocks as a new glamour industry for Australia worth, potentially, hundreds of millions of export dollars.

Rising interest in, and demand for, Australian foods and flavours is behind a growing enthusiasm for bush tucker from remote indigenous communities to high-tech farms and supermarkets.

“I think that within a couple of decades native foods will be a major horticulture industry, like macadamias have already become,” predicts scientist Dr Maarten Ryder, whose team at the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre is developing the knowledge of how to grow, harvest and handle native foods.

The industry is already extremely diverse, ranging from wild harvest of plants by indigenous communities in the central deserts to cottage-scale horticultural production and processing, to trials by large-scale farmers of automated harvesting.

“It’s got all the making of a big industry, with a surprising array of products emerging on the market from liqueurs, aperitifs and teas, to sauces and chutneys, to fresh fruits and salad vegetables, to seeds and grains which add a new experience to breads and cakes,” Dr Ryder explains.

“There is tremendous interest from tourists in Australian native foods, most of which they have never encountered before in their lives, and this is reflected in rising demand for native products in our restaurants. Many of our supermarkets are starting to have an “Australian shelf” of native products.

“But we’re also seeing more and more recipe books appearing which call for Australian ingredients, and growing awareness and interest from the international gourmet community. A German spice company has recently expressed serious interest in acquiring new spices and condiments from Australia.”

Dr Ryder predicts that wild harvest will remain the industry mainstay for some time to come – a great economic opportunity for remote indigenous communities, both to gather and …

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Higher grazing profits and sustainable pastoral landscapes can go hand-in-hand, according to new research starting in the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

Rotational grazing systems offer significant scope to cut costs, increase livestock productivity, make better use of country and at the same time achieve better vegetation cover and environmental stewardship.

And it’s all down to natural cattle and sheep behaviour, says Desert Knowledge CRC’s Dr Ben Norton.

“This runs counter to most things science has been saying for the past quarter of a century: that there are no obvious advantages in rotational grazing over set stocking.”

But the evidence of a handful of pastoralists who are turning loss-making operations into highly profitable ones and restoring the condition of degraded country at the same time is hard to ignore, he says.

“It appears to be a question of scale, especially in the pastoral zone, and of animal behaviour. A large mob of animals that is on the move behaves quite differently to a smaller mob that is in one large paddock all the time.

“Sheep and cattle are naturally migratory animals. They move, graze and water in large mobs. Their loyalty is to the herd or flock.

“But when you pen them in a paddock more-or-less permanently they become territorial – loyal to particular locations. This leads to higher grazing pressure in some areas and less effective use of the total grazing resource.”

Dr Norton says that observations on properties in semi-arid Australia – both cattle and sheep – indicate there can be major advantages in moving to a rotational system in a planned fashion.

Animal behaviour and animal distribution occurring in paddocks on a commercial property have been irrelevant in grazing trials on research stations. This Desert Knowledge CRC research will test rotational grazing at a property scale, …

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The partnership between one of Australia’s largest food manufacturers and the country’s leading indigenous food company is set to double the size of the fledgling bush foods industry and create jobs for Aboriginal Australians.

Ward McKenzie, one of Australia’s largest food manufacturers and exporters of herbs and spices, and Robins Foods, makers of Australia’s leading indigenous food range Outback Spi it, have joined forces to market the unique flavours of Australia’s native foods to the world.

The companies predicted the native foods industry, currently worth an estimated $10 million per annum, will double its turnover over the next five years as a direct result of their collaboration.

“We are very excited about bringing Aboriginal foods not just to a wider market at home but to the rest of the world,” said Helen Ward, Joint Managing Director of Ward McKenzie.

“We want to help Robins Foods create sustainable jobs for Aboriginal people through their partner Indigenous Australian Foods (IAF), an indigenous-owned supply chain.”

Ward McKenzie’s investment will strengthen the entire native foods value chain, said Juleigh Robins, Managing Director of Robins Foods.

“We are thrilled to have a company of the caliber of Ward McKenzie help us develop these new and delicious products. The partnership puts our aim of making native foods an everyday part of Australia’s diet within close reach.”

Ms Robins said the support her company has received from the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has strengthened the bush foods industry and facilitated its growth.

“The Desert Knowledge CRC’s support is critical for improving the efficiencies and capacities of indigenous people who harvest native foods from the desert and for introducing sustainable agricultural systems for these species.”

Dr Craig James, Desert Knowledge CRC Program Manager, expects the partnership to increase the production capacity of desert Australia, home of …

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Desert Knowledge Australia and Desert Knowledge CRC are hosting a world class workshop in Alice Springs (27 July – 29 July) to help industries located in desert Australia identify how they can network together to improve business in the future.

The workshop run by internationally renowned Ifor Ffowcs-Williams and Mike Burke from Cluster Navigators is ground breaking work since this session physically brings 15 facilitators together from across Australia including Broken Hill, Kalgoorlie, Mount Isa, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy and Alice Springs in the first stage of the Desert Knowledge Australia Linked Business Networks Project.

“People will leave this workshop with initial skills development in how to either create local business networks or build on existing networks” explains Mr Ffowcs Williams. “They will then use a range of technologies to link those networks across desert Australia”

“A key element of this project is that regional development and other organisations from across four states and the NT are working closely together under the banner of Desert Knowledge Australia to create networks that will assist businesses identify opportunities and work with each other to mutual benefit.”

The 18 month project at this stage covers industries such as mining services, tourism, housing design, renewable energy services and bush products. Already participants are exploring ways in which particular mining service expertise in one region can help fill a shortfall in another region The conventional bush foods industry could be expanded by such innovative ideas as using festivals like the Alice Springs Wild Foods Festival as a market place for products from across desert Australia.

“A project of this scale would not be possible without the support of Telstra and AusIndustry” states John Baskerville, Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia Interim Board. “We are certainly thankful for their help and it will be exciting to report …

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