Is big business trying to curtail our democratic rights.... Read on....
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/call-to-cut-the-number-of-councils-20120320-1vhwq.html
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Democratic rights under attack
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A SOLUTION FOR OUR OVERPOPULATION
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By Ray Smith Retired. Formerly Area Specialist with the Australian Science Education Project and Senior Lecturer at the Regional Educational Centre for Science and Mathematics. Malaysia. Co-author of the series of Headstart Science books.
The tallest woman on Earth, Yao Defen, died because she didn't stop growing. The cause turned out to be a cancer in her pituitary gland There are stages in the growth of all people. The first is physical growth to the early teens. During that period there is much learning of facts and a mental growth through what are called "concrete" stages of learnings. After that, the physical growth should stop, and be followed by a mental growth - that which psychologist Jan Piaget calls the "formal" thinking stage. As in Physical growth, there is a need for challenges and exercises in mental growth to achieve this formal level of thinking*.
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Australia's GDP per capita is stationary, and resources are falling
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The real problem we have which is causing the most damage to Melbourne is the increasing population. It is not increasing our GDP per capita. The small stable population countries have the highest GDP per capita.
William Bourke has published a severe critique of Australia's economic policy on ABC's the Drum.
He notes that while total GDP has risen, this is almost entirely due to population growth. Per capita GDP, which is what really matters to most of us, is stationary. And Australia's abnormally rapid population growth brings many economic ills (as well as the obvious environmental and resource ones).
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IF THEY ONLY BUILT THEM WELL AND PROPERLY SOUNDPROOFED BUT OBVIOUSLY THESE DEVELOPERS TO MAKE MAXIMUM PROFITS DONT GIVE QUALITY
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IF THEY ONLY BUILT THEM WELL AND PROPERLY SOUNDPROOFED BUT OBVIOUSLY THESE DEVELOPERS TO MAKE MAXIMUM PROFITS DONT GIVE QUALITY
Stack-'em-up flats erode quality of life I WONDER how many politicians/developers ever live in the apartments they approve/build. Not too many, I think. The Age's Domain apartment guide is full of happy stories about people who have downsized from spacious suburban homes. But these people are living in top-dollar dwellings. For the majority of Melburnians the story is quite different.
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Foreign Ownership ... Good news and Bad
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THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR BRIAN WALSH OF KEW COTTAGES COALITION WHO HAS BEEN DEMANDING THIS FOR YEARS - let us hope it really happens
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Mary Drost Channel 7 News 16 February 2012
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DOCKLANDS PAST AND PRESENT AND WHAT OF THE FUTURE??
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the past - Kennett desperate to get Docklands going. BargainBasement prices. What a massive killing those developers made.
And what a mess they made of it.
Will they ever put it right?? And will they do the same in Fishermens Bend? Why do they get it so wrong?
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DONCASTER RAIL STUDY - Have your say
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Spending your money is not hard work....
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This photo is tagged as the US legislators at work passing a budget.
US House Minority Leader pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues play as the House considers a new budget. The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct.1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on.
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or -a ticket home, permanently? This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).
Is it so different in Australia ?
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More happenings.....
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