X-Flames

A place for flaming commentary on things of interest to me. Politics, economics, possibly software. Since I have opinions on everything, I fit right in to the blogosphere. Hope you enjoy your time here, and it possibly makes you think about something differently!

Friday, November 7, 2008

ABC Learning Centres - too important to fail

The Australian government has decided to allocate $22m to bailing out the ABC Learning Centres, of which apparently 40% are not profitable. ...

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Global Financial Crisis - Too much Capitalism?

Apparently the financial crisis was caused by unrestrained greed and fear . You'e got to be kidding me. The root cause, in the US, was ...

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Education Spending

In the car today, I heard a report on the Australian national broadcaster's radio station (abc.net.au) about the rate of spending on Go...

Friday, August 1, 2008

Governmet Ads

I saw an advert on TV tonight for the government. Here in Australia, it seems to be okay to advertise government policy. Not sure where that...

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Free Pre-K Education

I see this on eduwonk : But there is a bigger disconnect here: Where’s the big agenda and the resources? I’m hardly a throw money at the p...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Fair Taxes

Scott Adams recently posted on "Fair" taxes. A suggestion was to tax the rich at 90%. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/?EntryID=71 Ap...

Sunday, June 15, 2008

18 Months Paid Maternity Leave

There have been a number of articles recently about the need to do more for women in the workplace. Amongst the ideas floated was this one -...

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