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Senin, 14 Februari 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.

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Senin, 02 Agustus 2010

Stop Press: CSIRO Develops New Broadband

It looks like Labor will lose the election. One thing is of great concern to me. That is the loss of the new national broadband network. Tony Abbot believes that private enterprise will fill the gap and make the leap. Without new technology this will not happen, particularly as Telecom still controls the copper wire network. The recent American CEO of Telecom did have one thing right about the Australian communication market - one company is shackled to the government but it still controls the whole market. Literally, when Telstra sneezes all the minor telcos don't just get a cold: they get the flu.

Ironically, a public company holds the one and only key to Australia's hope of catching up to the rest of the developed world. CSIRO has developed a way of high-speed computer data transmission in the 6 gigabite range. It is not only superior to existing Wifi, developed in Australia, it is 99.9 per cent loss free, that is, it doesn't lose anything to a cable connection. 4G is a toddler in comparison. CSIRO is looking to link up with private investors.

Importantly, in regard to broadband, CSIRO has made a submission to the NBN Senate Select Committee saying testing has confirmed potential to deliver a 100Mbps service in remote regions of Australia at a pittance of the cost of other technologies. Work is already being done on a microwave 10Gbps 50 kilometre test. At the moment the target is provision of service to remote regions, but it could become a front line system.

It is ironic in the past how new concepts have arisen to fulfill human need when required. In this instance, though, the advance has happened too late to be incorporated into the NBN as launched. Senators were informed late in the decision-making process and were really thrown off guard by the information. Patents have only just been filed. Senators virtually guaranteed government funding if private sector funding is not secured.

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Rabu, 19 Mei 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.

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