Community Leadership Program: Learn about Diversity & Inclusion
Learn how to make better decisions and get more people involved by learning about diversity, inclusion and cross-cultural understanding.
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Our AGM 2022 kicks off at Barossa Cellars
There was a huge buzz of enthusiasm as community and business leaders from across the region descended on The Barossa Cellar for our AGM last night. Chris Sands gave a powerful presentation on the power of decentralised leadership, inspiring us all with his global success using the Totally Locally framework. Chair Rolf Binder kicked off…
Barossa front and centre at the 2022 Work Health & Safety Excellence Awards
The Work Health & Safety Excellence Awards recognise South Australian wine businesses that go above and beyond the basics of WHS by demonstrating substantial improvements and commitment to worker safety. The awards also recognise the critical role of workers in health and safety, via a separate category for a Safety Champion, who is a role model…
Veena Sahajwalla: The Waste Queen
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is known as the “waste queen”. She’s transforming the way we manage waste in Australia and across the world. We need more women working in STEM like Veena to meet the challenges of the future. Join us at Barossa Campus Friday September 16 at 11:30am for a virtual keynote from Veena about…
Pasin Appointment to the Shadow Ministry
Tony Pasin, Federal Member for Barker I am humbled to have been appointed the Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport by the Leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton. As someone who drives over 100,000 kms a year mostly on rural roads and who, as a local member, represents local industries who rely heavily on…
Culinary School
Visiting Barossa Cellar once again for our Barossa Future Leaders program, our Food Projects manager Mark McNamara took us through the history and evolution of Barossa cuisine. Starting with a lesson on native Indigenous Australian plants and foods in the region, we learned about the introduction of Germanic foods and why they became such a…
Positive Hospitality Course Outcome
Visiting Gawler on RDA business today, we bumped into one of our graduates from last years immersive hospitality bootcamp that we conducted in conjunction with the Barossa Campus and working hospitality venues in the Barossa. It’s really rewarding when you see the genuine results of our workforce training programs in action, in this case working…
Barossa Future Leaders Wine Class
On Tuesday night (6/04/22), Australian National Treasure Jane Ferrari and Barossa Australia Members CEO James March, took our Barossa Future Leaders through the story of the Barossa region. We learned so much about the variety of grapes, the effect of temperature, sunlight and altitude on wine and how to talk about the flavours of wine.…
Food Projects Update
On the menu for our first Food Projects newsletter: Developing & Accessing New Markets Destination Development Industry Support and Assistance Workforce Development How Can You Get Involved & Benefit? Click here to read. Email mark@barossa.org.au to be added to Food Projects mailing list
Skills to Workforce Training
What an amazing day to take our wonderful Skills To Employment trainees for a walk around the Barossa Bushgardens! The Skills to Employment programs is a 11 week intensive program training these wonderful people up for careers in the care sector (Certificate 3 in Individual Support) This program will provide these trainees with the…