Random thoughts and observations
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is giving cash away, $10.4 billion in fact to stimulate the economy. The total includes a one-off $1000 payment in December for each child to families with dependent children. We’ve got four children, so unless I’ve missed something in the fine print we’ll get $4000. I had to research a little [...]
I read earlier this year the new Rudd regime plans a whole-of-government approach to Commonwealth IT services. Labor believed the Howard Government wasted money allowing an ad-hoc uncoordinated system to develop whereby individual departments and agencies contracted their own services. Labor is right in this this regard. While decision making at a local level should [...]
I don’t understand why the West Australian Government doesn’t just get on with the job of local government reform. It’s another example of indecision and lack of leadership. Add it to the list with daylight saving and retail trading hours. There are too many councils in WA, no argument.
According to BBC News, the deputy mayor of Delhi has died after failing to defend himself from a horde of wild monkeys. SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys. The city has long struggled to counter its [...]
This is one of those five-question blog prompts. I first saw it on Synaptoman. The starting assumption is that you are the absolute ruler of a prosperous, stable country without any immediate threats, no poverty or unemployment. That means I can answer this question safe in the knowledge I don’t need to interfere with the [...]
