Posts by George Darroch
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What can we beat the world at? Being greener than everyone else?
Oh, wait...
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Smaller houses. But still truckloads bigger than the Europeans. Almost three times the size of a British house. Take that, Notherners!
Also, Australian houses are a huge pain to heat and cool, one of the reasons with coal-fired electricity they have the highest emissions of any developed country.
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OMG we need to close the fruit juice gap too!
Yeah, but there is a significant beer gap, bread gap, chocolate gap, icecream gap, in fact just about every type of everyday food that I can think of, New Zealand does as well or better. They do have better Italian, Lebanese and Greek food, but that's because they have more Italians, Lebanese, and Greeks.
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TL:DR. Climate trolls love to spew undigested copy-pasta all over the web.
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Can we cut the cable too?
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I'm reminded about my favourite joke about Don Brash and a parachute right now.
Basically, everybody is jumping off a burning plane, and the last parachute can't be found. Brash sits there calmly to the amazement of others. "Don't worry", he says, "economic assumptions show that if there's enough demand, someone will create one".
The number of bare assumptions in the report just issued is astounding. I happily accept that not everything can be measured, and doing new things means making assumptions. But to take that many liberties? I'm tempted to throw an assumed can-opener at him.
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Whoops, wrong thread.
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Suffice to say that $10k pa would represent a significact cut in most (all?) cases.
Some DPB payments are under $200 a week. All unemployment benefits would increase, by between $73 and $9 dollars - the unemployment benefit is calculated on an age discriminatory basis, because being 24 is clearly less costly than being 25.
Also, 3410, I love your avatar.
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Morgan's other suggestions: dropping the Unemployment Benefit, the DPB, the Sickness Benefit (!) and so on are just loopy, but about what I'd expect from someone who thinks people in those situations deserve everything they get (or don't get, rather.)
What are you talking about? Sick people and those don't need money. If there is demand, the market will provide!
I'm reminded about my favourite joke about Don Brash and a parachute right now.
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I have an idea: if we want to catch up with Australia, why don't we start by looking at what they are actually doing? They don't have low taxes, low government spending, or minimal regulation. Nor have they slashed spending on health and education.
Indeed. Their funding for Commonwealth (of Australia) students is generous. I'm thankful that as a research student I'm considered to be in that category.