Ideas@ The Centre 9
Vol. 4 No. 9 (April, 2009)-
Indigenous education ‘gap’ a cover up for policy failure
| 17 Apr 2009Governments have been setting targets to ‘close the gap’ in Indigenous education for the past 20 years, and yet literacy and numeracy have not improved
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Happy Tax Freedom Day!
| 17 Apr 2009A tax is ‘a compulsory exaction of money by a public authority for public purposes, enforceable by law, and is not a payment for services rendered.’ At least that is the way the High Court defined it way back in 1938
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Aussies are stupid and can only dig stuff up
| 17 Apr 2009Ever since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, economists have been trying to understand what makes nations prosperous
