If - Labor is learning then it's more than the Liberals have done over the last 11 years

Have you seen this Advert from the Liberal Party of Australia?

If you have, you will note that it is the reverse side of an advert for the Liberal Party of Australia which features soft pastel blue and yellow colours.

The colours alone of this piece of badly written propaganda are intended to bring home to the reader amessage of "WARNING WARNING"

Red tends to have that impact on most people and the fact that it is coupled with Black would suggest the Anarchist colours alas of course (for the Liberal Party of Australia that is) it also features a bright yellow colour as well.

This emulates the colours of Australia that have been chosen by indigenous peoples in this country to represent the true colours of both Australia and of course of the indigenous peoples themselves.

In one hit the Liberal Party of Australia has brought attention through its fear campaign to its issues with the indigenous people in this country and it's total disrespect and fear of people who have actually worked for a living and risen (in many cases) from poverty through hard work and effort, to a position of importance.

Will this all backfire for them? Let's hope so!

The people represented on this fear campaign advertisement are genuine workers who have had to struggle to get to university to get an education who have actually WORKED for a living and know what it's like to go without and to achieve success through hard work. They are also people who joined a Trade Union to obtain through such membership the solidarity against oppression and exploitation that is no doubt perpetrated by many Liberal Party supporters.

They then went on to give service to others, at first through running for office in their trade unions, then through election to public office.

Not for them the easy life of being supported by rich parents or a dynasty of rich people and assuming that they have a "right to rule"

Yes they will be learners if elected to government in their Ministerial portfolios.

What a wonderful thing this is! At least they are LEARNING something.

If only the people on the other side had spent the last 11 years in office doing the same thing!

It appears that they have done no learning and now expect electors to be fooled into voting for them AGAIN!

Meet the Boss!

When I see headlines like: "Driverless car wins robot challenge"I start to worry!

"A driverless car called Boss has scooped a $2m prize in a Californian race for robotic vehicles."

"Larry Burns, GM's vice-president for research and development and strategic planning, said developing cars that drive themselves is a key objective.

"Imagine being able to talk on the phone, eat your breakfast, handle your emails, and leave the driving to the vehicle," he added.

He believes cars with that level of intelligence could be on the road by 2015."

OK I am imagining! Let's assume that the technology is taken care of and we have one of these robotic monsters on the road.

1. Who is going to be licensed to drive? - It can't be the fellow eating his breakfast, reading his e-mails etc.
2. Who will you be able to sue when an accident happens? - This time the slurred story of "But offischer, I really wasn't driving under the affluence of incohol, the "Boss" was driving." will actually be believable.
3. Who will have to pay the speeding tickets that are incurred - the manufacturer or the passenger? Or do they send the ticket to the "Boss"
   

These and many other mysteries of life will be interesting to wait for - All I have to do now is to hang around long enough to see what happens!

"Tokyo - Japan's Agriculture Ministry reprimanded six bureaucrats after an internal probe found they spent work hours contributing to Wikipedia on topics unrelated to farm issues — including 260 entries about cartoon robots."

I wonder what we would find if we did a similar check here in Australia?

Considering that we have local, state, territory, and Commonwealth government employees whose combined numbers are probably staggering the total number of person hours that might be devoted to diligent work that has nothing to do with what they are paid for could constitute an interesting statistic.

If it is then possible it would be even more interesting to obtain similar statistics for employees in private companies.

From the statistics obtained it should be possible to provide some answers to the following questions (at least):

1. If Australian workers currently work extensive hours over and above what they are paid for - could we reduce the time they spend away from their families by stopping them from using their company's facilities and time for their own enjoyment?
2. If Australian workers spend time 'working' at things that have nothing to do with their jobs, using their company's facilities and time - to what extent could the costs of the products for which they are responsible be reduced by stopping them from 'working' in this way?

I would like to see the Communications Minister in Australia get to work on this preferably BEFORE the elections here - then we might see whether we can get some cost reductions across the board in our cost of living regardless of which political party finally manages to win power for the next few years.

More buying power or less, depending on who you are!

Otherwise reported as "Aussie dollar hits 23-year high"

While this means that any Australian, under 23 years of age AND going overseas AND buying their currency today, is likely to be told "You never had it so good," it is a different story for some people who are going to be tourists here in Australia.

Tourists already in Australia are likely to be having a harder time than usual IF they did not purchase Aussie dollars when it was low and have been using ATMs to withdraw money from their accounts at home. The decrease of the purchasing power of their home currency is likely to either cause some comments about "how expensive" Australia is.

What of course THEY do not consider is that WE have had to pay heavy expenses in their countries when their currency was more valuable. I reckon turn around is fair play - let the US and UK visitors finally see what it has been like for us when we were over there.

Meanwhile for those purchasing O/S currencies now for use in their travels in the future think in French and silently say to yourselves "Vive la difference"