After reading today’s Crikey I felt I couldn’t let Guy Rundles article pass with comment.
Whilst Scandinavia does fly in the face of some of Friedman’s prescriptions. Milton’s explanation of why is quite reasonable.
Scandinavians are culturally industrious and Scandinavia is ethnically homogeneous (although this is changing). Their industriousness means they can afford the welfare state and [...]

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Sitting on the Number 8 tram on Melbourne’s St. Kilda Road certainly is an interesting experience. Trams catch the mood and feel of Melbourne like no ther form of transport. They amble down the middle of the street they are amongst the traffic, yet they are not a car or a bus. They are not [...]

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Basketball riots in Los Angeles, football riots in Belgium. The weekend seemed to be full of mob violence, destruction and thuggery. Grown men on rampages of destruction. In the modern world, it seems that for all our technical achievements, our ordered society, and our high culture, we have not come that far. Just below the [...]

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 Well the World Cup is over! Australia are champions, and for the fourth successive occasion the northern hemisphere teams are licking their wounds after disappointing campaigns.
There has been some speculation as to the reasons for the southern hemisphere’s domination of rugby in the last 15 years? And if in fact the gap between the hemisphere’s [...]

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Surfing through the internet recently I participated in a poll rating the recent World Cup. Filling in the form I wanted to rate RWC ‘99 as excellent, I’m Australian. But honesty prevailed, I scored it a poor rating, despite my bias.
The problem I had with it as I have with all rugby lately is that [...]

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