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Public Health in Australia

March 4th 2010 02:06

Public Health in Australia.
Our public health system is a state of chaos and confusion is one way of describing it. With the advent of the American system of making a profit out of everything our system has disintegrated to a shambles. Part of the problem is centralised control where the decisions are made well away from the services supposedly providing health care for the Australian people. Another part is the emergence of Health Insurance companies by the dozen.

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Home Insulation

February 20th 2010 08:35

Home Insulation
The Australian Govt in its wisdom offered cash rebates for home owners to insulate their homes and thereby reduce their need to consume electricity for heating and cooling. They gave the rebate to the installing companies. A real mistake , Mr Garrett.
However the way they went about it was a godsend to shonky installers and such. There has been four deaths and ninety house fires as a direct result of incorrect insulation materials being installed

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The Ageing Population

February 8th 2010 09:01

The Ageing Population.
Strange, isn’t it, how Governments emphasise the need for better health services, yet are complaining that the ageing population is going to cost zillions of dollars in the future as budgets are strained to support a non- working population which is constantly growing.
How about reducing the cost of living for everyone, so that they can afford to support themselves

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Education Revolution

January 27th 2010 06:13

For anyone with children this may be helpful. The Prime Minister of Australia and his deputy are promoting an "Education Revolution" as a political Policy of the Aust. Labour Party. This letter is directed to them for their deep consideration and evaluation.

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Further to Climate Change Vice Admiral Robert

January 9th 2010 04:42

Vice admiral Robert Fitzroy, founder of the Government Metorological Services wrote in a letter to the London Times in 1861:

I need hardly report, Sir, what has so often been explained that the ' forecasts' are expressions of probabilities And not dogmatic predictions

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Morrie & Jim on Climate Change

January 1st 2010 02:15

CO2
The station wagon slowed as the turn off came in view and turned. The 35 ton of loaded semi had no hope of stopping and young Maurice was left an orphan. Mum, Dad, and sister were taken back to the city for the funeral. Such a sad occasion, one small seven year old, left alone when he needed love and guidance most. None of the family could take the small boy so he was sent off to his Grand dad in a small country town. Old Jim Johnston met Maurice at the bus stop.
“Are you Maurice Whiteman?” Jim said as Maurice walked down from inside the bus

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Trading Schemes- Carbon or otherwise

December 20th 2009 10:12

The much promoted Summit Meeting at Copenhagen has really turned out a flop. No one can agree on what is to be done to prevent the worlds average temperatures from rising

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Trading Schemes- Carbon or otherwise

December 20th 2009 10:12

The much promoted Summit Meeting at Copenhagen has really turned out a flop. No one can agree on what is to be done to prevent the worlds average temperatures from rising

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Emmission Trading Schemes

November 18th 2009 04:52

Emissions Trading Scheme

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The Good Old Days

October 16th 2009 02:58

As I get closer to my grave I think often of other times in other places. Memory being what it is, I remember the good times best, not the misery and heartbreak that happened along the way. And so it is that we all have the 'Good old days'.
As a child I remember the freedom I took for granted and the relaxed and friendly attitude of the law enforcement people when I got caught out in some of my nefarious activities. Not criminal in any way, just illegal, and often dangerous to me and to my friends. This fact did not stop the adventures, merely changed their direction, and made me more careful. I knew, and accepted the fact, that I had to wear the consequences of my acts of adventure and defiance and did so with as much good grace as I could muster.
Tresspass was not such a crime then as it is today and I often ventured where I was not supposed to be. Near my home town was an Air Force Training centre for budding pilots and when the war moved away from our shores this became a storage facility and a rubbish dump for surplus war materials, spare parts and excess or obsolete radio and communication equipment. A treasure trove for adventurous kids, like me, for instance. for a while my little group of kids had the most wonderful billy cart with wheels from the tail end a Wacket trainer planes. There truck loads of these wheels dumped in a massive pit ready for burning. Nice rubber tyres and tubes, right size holes for axels on our carts etc. The law saw things differently and one day we were caught at the tip by Air Force Police. The rotten sods sneaked up on us and poked their rifles in our faces and generally frightened the daylights out of us. We then spent about four hours in the Air Force jail as we were held until the law could question us individually. We lost those nice wheels from our billy cart, but somehow retained the home made radios we all had. Such is life for a kid

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