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Comment on Goodbye and thanks. by Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:06:44 +0000

Thanks Trevor, I’ve enjoyed this blog a lot and will miss it, having said that good luck with everything you’ve got ahead of you and… yeah well basically that’s it.

Thanks and good luck.

Comment on Some good Enterprise 2.0 implementation tips by implementation tips - StartTags.com

implementation tips - StartTags.com — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:59:38 +0000

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Comment on The Liberals face self-destruction by Neil

Neil — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:29:49 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about Robb Kevin. He’s not well and will probably have to quit. The more startling question is: how did Nick Minchin get to a position of influence? the man is a maniac. Really.

Comment on The Liberals face self-destruction by Kevin Rennie

Kevin Rennie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:22:16 +0000

Much as we would like to win Goldstein from the Libs I think Andrew Robb is safe, at least from our side of politics. Who knows which Liberal parliamentarians will cop the chop during the bloodletting season. He will certainly have offended many of the local lay environmentalists. Bayside has a huge bushwalking club for instance and Beach Road is the cyclists mecca.

Comment on Crawford report a dull dud spiced by a big no to John Coates by westral

westral — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:16:29 +0000

Sports funding should be regarded as a health issue both on inputs (fast food & alcohol advertising) and outputs (does it result in a healthier community). If funding Olympic athletes does that fine. If it doesn’t we need to find out what will encourage more people to particiapate in sports activities. We rank around number 5 in Olympic ratings but rank 1 or 2 in the most obese nations so something’s not working and we need to find out what is wrong.

Comment on More, not less, equality needed for economic growth by Croakey

Croakey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:56:10 +0000

Some new research, estimating more than a million premature deaths are due to income inequality, reported at Croakey: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2009/11/13/reads-of-the-week/

Comment on More, not less, equality needed for economic growth by Friar Hilarius

Friar Hilarius — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:33:10 +0000

I recently found that in 2008 the top 83 nations in terms of per capita GDP increased this measure at a slower rate than the bottom 83

Perhaps at glacial lack of speed we are moving to a more equal world

Some evidence that we could be moving to a global average wage for equal levels of skill is seen in the way bids are made for work projects on the internet

I saw where out of work American financiers would bid US$ 100 an hour for work but were undercut by Asians willing to do the work for far less … more strength to the hard working Asians, I say!

My heart does not exactly bleed for out of work American bankers

The book “Globality” sub-titled “Competing with Everyone, from Everywhere, for Everything” by Sirkin, Hemerling and Bhattacharya deals with the increasing mobility of capital in the global economy and trends towards a global average standard of living

My personal view is that Credit has been dis-credited and that the next major move in economics needs to be to a Savings Based funding of affordable growth

This needs to be coupled with the destruction of manipulated consumerism. The new religion of Mass Marketing, a cult practised so viciously in its Shopping Mall Temples, needs to be exposed as the most dangerous cult in the planet.

Buying what we can not afford simply brings forward spending and builds a bubble of demand which can not be sustained as the appetite for credit is stretched beyond reasonable limits

If tax and every other law encouraged savings and we spent only our savings, or better still our interest on savings we might take much more care in starting projects which have social value as distinct from value to the Cult of Consumerism and Marketing and its bogus claim to promote higher living standards

The highest standards of living may well be enjoyed by those who want less rather than more. Certainly they have a greater chance of attaining peace and satisifaction as well as freedom from debt if their needs are less.

There is Life after Debt

Friar Hilarius
http://yourlifeafterdebt.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-lives-for-old.html

Comment on More, not less, equality needed for economic growth by JamesH

JamesH — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:42:50 +0000

Good to see this issue getting a little more coverage.
There has been some interesting work (paper by Andrew Leigh and Christopher Jencks here: http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/pdf/InequalityMortality.pdf) saying that this effect largely disappears if it is done on within-country historical trends; that is, when a country’s inequality goes up or down, its population does not necessarily respond. How to interpret this disjuncture is anyone’s guess; mine is that a change in inequality has to be sustained for a significant period of time and given time to affect the stress and hormone levels of the very young and their parents, which then sets their attitudes etc for the rest of their life. If true, this calls for caution on asserting that changing inequality would have good short-term effects, as opposed to long-term effects.

Comment on More, not less, equality needed for economic growth by Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:05:47 +0000

Thanks Melissa, glad you liked it. Interestingly the authors of the spirit level are from the health side of things and the book is housed in the medicine library at Sydney Uni!

Comment on More, not less, equality needed for economic growth by Croakey

Croakey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:01:20 +0000

Great piece! Inequity is one of the big issues for health. It’s not simply that poorer people tend to have worse health; but they also are less likely to have access to health care or related services. There is a lot of rhetoric within the health sector about tackling these inequities but so much of the action of governments and powerful professional groups only exacerbates them. Perhaps meaningful change will only come when the discussions about health inequities starts to engage powerbrokers beyond health. Another reason why your piece is welcome (and I will put a link up at Croakey right now!)