Ideas@The Centre 35 2012
Vol. 9 No. 35 (September, 2012) Freedom Quote of the Week'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free'.
— Goethe
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Importing Australia’s Asia literacy
| 07 Sep 2012Extra spending to improve Asia literacy is unnecessary because Australia is already well-positioned to prosper as power moves to Asia.
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Productivity Commission misleads on Indigenous expenditure
| 07 Sep 2012
The Productivity Commission’s second Indigenous Expenditure Report, released earlier this week, shows that Commonwealth, state and territory taxpayer spending on Indigenous Australians has risen by 16% from $21.9 billion in 2008–09 to $25.4 billion in 2010–11.
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A plan with no plans
| 07 Sep 2012
The NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan isn’t a plan at all but a collection of concepts and colourful pictograms that contains no concrete ideas about what is actually affordable or achievable.
