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If South Australia had just arrived in the world, red and wrinkled and mewling, what would we call it?
Something to reflect our pride – FreeSettlerVille, perhaps? Or our aspirations – New Melbourne might suit. Or something that highlights the diverse range of South Australian attributes, from bogan frenzies to Old Adelaide Family pretensions – Taylyah Ashton-Smith, maybe?
Back in 1999 advertising ‘guru’ John Singleton declared the name South Australia “boring” and suggested ‘Bradman’ instead. It may be that having six or seven wives gives one a rather low threshold for boredom – although his enthusiasm for cricket shows he is not entirely averse to the concept.
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Monday is Queensland Day, a commemorative 24 hours that has a history older than most white-man milestones in our country.
It is older than Federation, older than electricity, but undervalued because we don’t quite know how to celebrate the best place in the world and aren’t big on causing a commotion about ourselves.
Queensland Day acknowledges the birth of Queensland in 1859 as a self-governing colony.
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A debate about GST distribution in Australia is a debate about our future as a federation. Some states – notably Western Australia – contribute far more than their fair share to the national purse. Others – notably South Australia and Tasmania – take far more than they give.
For example, WA gets about 68c in the dollar back from the Federal Government, while SA gets around $1.30.
It’s obvious that horizontal fiscal equalisation is unfair, and that the GST has moved beyond an Australian ‘fair go’ and more towards an inequitable redistribution of wealth.
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Seems like the Oz seecltors are following the “pick out randomly from the chit” method of selection. And I used to think that the Indian seecltors were assholes during the late 90s. They look like a batch of geniuses in front of these. And they were not even paid. Read more »
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Tim says:
So what you’re saying is… you want to oust the NT, SA - which by far have a lot more to give natural resource wise than NSW or Vic’s endless dirty amounts of coal - and then have Áustralia’existing in two separte parts on each end of the continent? You… Read more »
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