“So rather than augmenting supply with water you cannot sell at a profit, you simply impose restrictions and constrain demand. Because you have no competition, nobody can undercut you.” - Malcolm Turnbull (Brisbane Institute-July 2006)
Nurse Training and Patient Care
Updated on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 08:43AM by
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How things have changed in the health field over the last 20 years or so and not always for the better. While medical science is developing at a pace that is at the same time absolutely breath takingly brilliant, and enormously expensive, our ability to administratively manage health has actually gone backward, at about the same speed.
Canada: Losing Water Through NAFTA
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Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada lost control over its energy resources. Now, with “NAFTA-plus”, it could also lose control over its freshwater resources, say experts. Canada’s water is on the trade negotiating table despite widespread public opposition and assurances by Canadian political leaders, said Adèle Hurley, director of the University of Toronto’s Programme on Water Issues at the Munk Centre for International Studies. A new report released Sep. 11 by the programme reveals that water transfers from Canada to the United States are emerging as an issue under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The SPP — sometimes called “NAFTA-plus” — is a forum set up in 2005 in Cancún, by the three partners, Canada, United States and Mexico.
When credit becomes debt
For anyone who has had even a passing interest in Australia’s economy for the last few years would have been getting concerned that there was a bit too much easy credit around. You only had to take note of the unsolicited credit card offers that turned up in your letter box to know that someone was throwing money around, possibly even carelessly.
Law and Order...One set of rules for all Australians
On 13th September 2007 at the United Nations General Assembly session in New York, Australia together with the United States of America, New Zealand and Canada voted against the acceptance of a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. A majority 134 countries supported the Declaration while 11 countries abstained from voting. These countries were Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russia, Samoa and Ukraine. There are 192 members of the United Nations, which tends to indicate the 34 countries for one reason or another just didn’t attend. It would be interesting to know which countries these were. The Declaration had been before the Assembly for over 20 years and as the former director of the Inter-American Indigenous Institute, said “Many governments signed it as a formality, just to get it out of the way.”
The Highwaymen
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Why you could soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and Spanish builders for the privilege of driving on American roads.
Quarantine Double Standards....
Updated on Monday, September 10, 2007 at 10:48AM by
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Compulsory reading for all Australian Primary Producers There are times when you must genuinely wonder just who our Government is working for. In the days of Labor’s Hawke and Keating the joke was that they were busy building level playing fields for the rest of the world to screw us on, but believe me, the construction technique of Hawke and Keating has now been turned into an art form by the Coalition.
