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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Streets paved with gold?
An apt cartoon from NT News cartoonist and Troppo blogger Colin Wicking As Colin Wicking acutely observes, the debate about responsibility for appalling conditions in remote indigenous communities has degenerated into a predictable federal/NT slanging match A similar … Continue reading
Of guns and constitutions
Hail to the Chief? There are garbled reports of a stand-off for control of East Timorese military forces between President Xanana Gusmao and Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. It’s suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Politics - international
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Microsoft and open source
An obvious and powerful way for closed source shops to compete with open source software is to strategically open source. That is they can release bits of code and ask those people who are prepared to, to contribute code either … Continue reading
State of Origin I
What a game! The amazing thing about State of Origin football is that so often lives up to the hype. NSW won 17-16 over QLD but with the Maroons all at sea during the first half you could have been … Continue reading
Posted in Sport-general
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Adam Smith’s ‘oratorical’ theory of market exchange as communicative reason: next installment
I came across this review of a new book called The Economics of Attention courtesy of Economic Principles. It sounds like fun. Written by a English academic specialising in style and rhetoric (when he’s not being an expert witness in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Literature
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Rapping on race (instalment 297)
As frequent Troppo readers will know, I’ve been banging on about Aboriginal affairs issues for a very long time. I’m pleased that my obsession has at least momentarily been picked up by the mainstream media in the wake of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics - national
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Shopping malls – the Gruen connection
Speaking of how to cut tax to maximise economic growth, how do you design shopping areas to keep everyone shopping? As some Troppodillians will know, the Viennese architect Victor Gruen gave us the shopping mall. My Dad thought he may … Continue reading
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