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Showing posts with label bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bush. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Cultural Differentiation Should Be Encouraged
Despite the perception of Australians being "outside" people, spending their leisure exploring the bush, we are a nation of "stay-at-homes". A quite startling statistic shows that most Australians travelled only 16 kilometers from their homes in a decade.
Australians are parochial - they like the town where they were born. Anyway, this finding of only 16 kilometers of travel is questionable. It would be very difficult indeed even in remote towns for people to move in such a small radius from their homes. Even doing the weekly shopping would entail travel of more than 20 kilometers.
I favor strengthening the "bushy' culture of Australia - whether it be true or not. In this day and age societies are so similar as to be boring. We all have mobile phones and widescreen TVs. Hell, even Asians living in the mountains have such technology. And Africans meandering along dusty roads hold mobile phones to their ears and tinker with the Internet.
Australians are parochial - they like the town where they were born. Anyway, this finding of only 16 kilometers of travel is questionable. It would be very difficult indeed even in remote towns for people to move in such a small radius from their homes. Even doing the weekly shopping would entail travel of more than 20 kilometers.
I favor strengthening the "bushy' culture of Australia - whether it be true or not. In this day and age societies are so similar as to be boring. We all have mobile phones and widescreen TVs. Hell, even Asians living in the mountains have such technology. And Africans meandering along dusty roads hold mobile phones to their ears and tinker with the Internet.
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Cultural Differentiation Should Be Encouraged
Despite the perception of Australians being "outside" people, spending their leisure exploring the bush, we are a nation of "stay-at-homes". A quite startling statistic shows that most Australians travelled only 16 kilometers from their homes in a decade.
Australians are parochial - they like the town where they were born. Anyway, this finding of only 16 kilometers of travel is questionable. It would be very difficult indeed even in remote towns for people to move in such a small radius from their homes. Even doing the weekly shopping would entail travel of more than 20 kilometers.
I favor strengthening the "bushy' culture of Australia - whether it be true or not. In this day and age societies are so similar as to be boring. We all have mobile phones and widescreen TVs. Hell, even Asians living in the mountains have such technology. And Africans meandering along dusty roads hold mobile phones to their ears and tinker with the Internet.
Australians are parochial - they like the town where they were born. Anyway, this finding of only 16 kilometers of travel is questionable. It would be very difficult indeed even in remote towns for people to move in such a small radius from their homes. Even doing the weekly shopping would entail travel of more than 20 kilometers.
I favor strengthening the "bushy' culture of Australia - whether it be true or not. In this day and age societies are so similar as to be boring. We all have mobile phones and widescreen TVs. Hell, even Asians living in the mountains have such technology. And Africans meandering along dusty roads hold mobile phones to their ears and tinker with the Internet.
http://www.adventure--australia.blogspot.com/http://www.tysaustralia.blogspot.com/
http://www.feeds.feedburner.com/AdventureAustralia
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http://adventure--australia.blogspot.com
~~~~~Culture~~~~~
Friday, February 4, 2011
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
RBA Governor's Case for Financial Review of NBN Is Too Late
Glenn Stevens the Governor of the Reserve bank says he supports a check on the National Broadband Network. You can't really take this man seriously. He obviously just said it to give a non-partisan, either party approach to government. Getting the Coalition off his back was his main aim. After all this time, he says this now. It is obviously late, very late indeed, with the legislation to change the structure of Telstra going through parliament at this very moment.
The Labor Government wants to stop any further investigation into the full cost of the NBN, particularly now at the end of parliamentary sitting. It wants to go away and breath a sigh of satisfaction. All government projects end up costing more than was budgeted. The Coalition knows this and if it can keep the pressure for financial investigation going it is on a winner. Though, what it can achieve by this is unclear. Labor surely has support to pass anything that is needed to get this monster of a project up and running.
Australia needs the new Internet system just to remain credible in the world. If a third of the population fully take up the capacity offered it will be a surprise. Ordinary households only need a basic service and one that is only a bit faster than that available now - city people that is. Business and rural people will be the big winners. If the industry was left to its own resources as at present those in the bush would be on dial-up permanently.
The Labor Government wants to stop any further investigation into the full cost of the NBN, particularly now at the end of parliamentary sitting. It wants to go away and breath a sigh of satisfaction. All government projects end up costing more than was budgeted. The Coalition knows this and if it can keep the pressure for financial investigation going it is on a winner. Though, what it can achieve by this is unclear. Labor surely has support to pass anything that is needed to get this monster of a project up and running.
Australia needs the new Internet system just to remain credible in the world. If a third of the population fully take up the capacity offered it will be a surprise. Ordinary households only need a basic service and one that is only a bit faster than that available now - city people that is. Business and rural people will be the big winners. If the industry was left to its own resources as at present those in the bush would be on dial-up permanently.
RBA Governor's Case for Financial Review of NBN Is Too Late
Glenn Stevens the Governor of the Reserve bank says he supports a check on the National Broadband Network. You can't really take this man seriously. He obviously just said it to give a non-partisan, either party approach to government. Getting the Coalition off his back was his main aim. After all this time, he says this now. It is obviously late, very late indeed, with the legislation to change the structure of Telstra going through parliament at this very moment.
The Labor Government wants to stop any further investigation into the full cost of the NBN, particularly now at the end of parliamentary sitting. It wants to go away and breath a sigh of satisfaction. All government projects end up costing more than was budgeted. The Coalition knows this and if it can keep the pressure for financial investigation going it is on a winner. Though, what it can achieve by this is unclear. Labor surely has support to pass anything that is needed to get this monster of a project up and running.
Australia needs the new Internet system just to remain credible in the world. If a third of the population fully take up the capacity offered it will be a surprise. Ordinary households only need a basic service and one that is only a bit faster than that available now - city people that is. Business and rural people will be the big winners. If the industry was left to its own resources as at present those in the bush would be on dial-up permanently.
The Labor Government wants to stop any further investigation into the full cost of the NBN, particularly now at the end of parliamentary sitting. It wants to go away and breath a sigh of satisfaction. All government projects end up costing more than was budgeted. The Coalition knows this and if it can keep the pressure for financial investigation going it is on a winner. Though, what it can achieve by this is unclear. Labor surely has support to pass anything that is needed to get this monster of a project up and running.
Australia needs the new Internet system just to remain credible in the world. If a third of the population fully take up the capacity offered it will be a surprise. Ordinary households only need a basic service and one that is only a bit faster than that available now - city people that is. Business and rural people will be the big winners. If the industry was left to its own resources as at present those in the bush would be on dial-up permanently.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Bob Geldof Is Uninformed
Bob Geldof doesn't know what he is talking about. How can a person not living in a country possibly know the truth about a country's situation. He has said that Australia is economically stupid for not finding work for Aboriginals. There is plenty of work for them in the nation's premier sports competition the AFL. Seriously though, there is not much work available in the bush where Aboriginals generally choose to reside. A significant proportion of them live in Sydney. There they are offered work, but most do not take it. Many Aboriginals believe that white people took the land from them so they can give money for Aboriginals to live on.
Sport is the main area for career Aboriginals. There are indeed a lot in the Australian Football League and Australian Rugby League, also in athletics. Some turn their hand to traditional Aboriginal art. A few have made it to national politics and some have found a place in the media. Considering they make up only two percent of the population they are not a big drain on the economy. They get subsidies in education far and above that for white people. So entry into educational institutions is not the problem. Job training schemes are available even in the bush.
Only city born Aboriginals live fully "modern" lives. These are Aboriginals who have had no experience of Aboriginal culture and do not know to which tribe they belong. Some of these would marry, settle down and buy a house on a mortgage for example. The Government is in the process of building new houses for long lease to Aboriginals. The cost of living in them will be greatly subsidized, but of course ownership will return to the state after 40 years.
Aboriginals living in the interior live by consuming native fauna while still taking unemployment benefits. The Intervention experiment has been a disaster. It was instigated by the Howard Government ostensibly to stop sexual molestation of minors and to improve Aboriginal diets. Neither has improved with Intervention for two reasons. First there was no connection between income and sexual molestation. Second Aboriginals have such low incomes and food is so expensive in the bush that they still buy the cheapest most filling foods. Controlling the income of only a portion of the population is discriminatory anyway and should not have occurred.
Bob Geldof should live in a country before he passes judgement upon it. Just because his ex-wife made off with an Australian is no excuse to "kick' the country.
Sport is the main area for career Aboriginals. There are indeed a lot in the Australian Football League and Australian Rugby League, also in athletics. Some turn their hand to traditional Aboriginal art. A few have made it to national politics and some have found a place in the media. Considering they make up only two percent of the population they are not a big drain on the economy. They get subsidies in education far and above that for white people. So entry into educational institutions is not the problem. Job training schemes are available even in the bush.
Only city born Aboriginals live fully "modern" lives. These are Aboriginals who have had no experience of Aboriginal culture and do not know to which tribe they belong. Some of these would marry, settle down and buy a house on a mortgage for example. The Government is in the process of building new houses for long lease to Aboriginals. The cost of living in them will be greatly subsidized, but of course ownership will return to the state after 40 years.
Aboriginals living in the interior live by consuming native fauna while still taking unemployment benefits. The Intervention experiment has been a disaster. It was instigated by the Howard Government ostensibly to stop sexual molestation of minors and to improve Aboriginal diets. Neither has improved with Intervention for two reasons. First there was no connection between income and sexual molestation. Second Aboriginals have such low incomes and food is so expensive in the bush that they still buy the cheapest most filling foods. Controlling the income of only a portion of the population is discriminatory anyway and should not have occurred.
Bob Geldof should live in a country before he passes judgement upon it. Just because his ex-wife made off with an Australian is no excuse to "kick' the country.
Bob Geldof Is Uninformed
Bob Geldof doesn't know what he is talking about. How can a person not living in a country possibly know the truth about a country's situation. He has said that Australia is economically stupid for not finding work for Aboriginals. There is plenty of work for them in the nation's premier sports competition the AFL. Seriously though, there is not much work available in the bush where Aboriginals generally choose to reside. A significant proportion of them live in Sydney. There they are offered work, but most do not take it. Many Aboriginals believe that white people took the land from them so they can give money for Aboriginals to live on.
Sport is the main area for career Aboriginals. There are indeed a lot in the Australian Football League and Australian Rugby League, also in athletics. Some turn their hand to traditional Aboriginal art. A few have made it to national politics and some have found a place in the media. Considering they make up only two percent of the population they are not a big drain on the economy. They get subsidies in education far and above that for white people. So entry into educational institutions is not the problem. Job training schemes are available even in the bush.
Only city born Aboriginals live fully "modern" lives. These are Aboriginals who have had no experience of Aboriginal culture and do not know to which tribe they belong. Some of these would marry, settle down and buy a house on a mortgage for example. The Government is in the process of building new houses for long lease to Aboriginals. The cost of living in them will be greatly subsidized, but of course ownership will return to the state after 40 years.
Aboriginals living in the interior live by consuming native fauna while still taking unemployment benefits. The Intervention experiment has been a disaster. It was instigated by the Howard Government ostensibly to stop sexual molestation of minors and to improve Aboriginal diets. Neither has improved with Intervention for two reasons. First there was no connection between income and sexual molestation. Second Aboriginals have such low incomes and food is so expensive in the bush that they still buy the cheapest most filling foods. Controlling the income of only a portion of the population is discriminatory anyway and should not have occurred.
Bob Geldof should live in a country before he passes judgement upon it. Just because his ex-wife made off with an Australian is no excuse to "kick' the country.
Sport is the main area for career Aboriginals. There are indeed a lot in the Australian Football League and Australian Rugby League, also in athletics. Some turn their hand to traditional Aboriginal art. A few have made it to national politics and some have found a place in the media. Considering they make up only two percent of the population they are not a big drain on the economy. They get subsidies in education far and above that for white people. So entry into educational institutions is not the problem. Job training schemes are available even in the bush.
Only city born Aboriginals live fully "modern" lives. These are Aboriginals who have had no experience of Aboriginal culture and do not know to which tribe they belong. Some of these would marry, settle down and buy a house on a mortgage for example. The Government is in the process of building new houses for long lease to Aboriginals. The cost of living in them will be greatly subsidized, but of course ownership will return to the state after 40 years.
Aboriginals living in the interior live by consuming native fauna while still taking unemployment benefits. The Intervention experiment has been a disaster. It was instigated by the Howard Government ostensibly to stop sexual molestation of minors and to improve Aboriginal diets. Neither has improved with Intervention for two reasons. First there was no connection between income and sexual molestation. Second Aboriginals have such low incomes and food is so expensive in the bush that they still buy the cheapest most filling foods. Controlling the income of only a portion of the population is discriminatory anyway and should not have occurred.
Bob Geldof should live in a country before he passes judgement upon it. Just because his ex-wife made off with an Australian is no excuse to "kick' the country.
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