http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/peter-strong/ Mr Peter Strong is the Executive Director of the Council of Small Business of Australia. Peter Strong has spent much of the last 20 years in change management at the business, community and national level.  He has worked for the Australian Government and the World Bank and the United Nations and with NGOs.  He has worked on national business and employment policy and internationally on projects aimed at assisting countries and regions experiencing substantial economic and social change.  This has included work in China, Turkey and Central Asia where he provided advice and support in micro and macro economic development activities. Peter participates in various advisory groups to the Australian government including with the Australian Tax Commissioners Advisory Group and similar groups with the ACCC, ASIC and the Department of Innovation. Peter also owns a bookshop in Canberra, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, and you should follow his shop’s Facebook persona at Smiths Alternativebookshop.  You can also follow him on Twitter @COSBOA.   en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-would-life-be-like-if-we-lived-to-150/ The existence of a fountain of youth that restores the health and youth of anyone bathing in its waters has tantalised humanity for centuries. Substitute the mythical water for modern-day medicine and we could, in the next decade, see medicines that slow the ageing process and help us live to 150 years old.  Life expectancy in Australia is already on a positive trend. At the beginning of the 20th Century, life expectancy at birth was about 55 years for males and 59 years for females. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Peter Strong) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-would-life-be-like-if-we-lived-to-150/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-would-life-be-like-if-we-lived-to-150/#item6997 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:07 +0000 Peter Strong | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Hey-feds-make-small-business-your-business/ The Federal budget highlights one great need for small business, and that is a rational coherent national strategy. This budget and indeed the last 20 federal budgets have included a whole range of good and bad measures for small business people. But there has never been a strategy to underpin those measures. There has never been a real statement of aims and objectives that we want to achieve. There has never been a documented comprehensive vision for the families who earn their living from their own business and who employ almost five million other people, and underpin our economic health. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Peter Strong) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Hey-feds-make-small-business-your-business/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Hey-feds-make-small-business-your-business/#item5849 Sun, 15 May 2011 19:40:41 +0000 Peter Strong | Author bios | The Punch