Well David, that is a very interesting take on things. But I would have thought that tax re-distribution should be all about what sort of country you want to live in. Spending all the tax where it is earned will impoverish the rest of the country and reduce their capacity to become wealthier and pay more tax. So the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. What a great idea. Then you could have a revolution that usually happens when you entrench such inequality.

David, I have this idea for you. What about if all the tax collected were to be spent on Sydney? That would encourage the whole population of Australia to move to Sydney and there would be no reason then to worry about whether one region of Australia gets a fair deal over another.

So what is that David, you don’t think much of my idea? Well, in all seriousness, it is no worse than your idea.

Well Agronomist, if we did encourage people from the rest of Oz to move to Sydney, we might be able to find someone who spoke English in Parramatta, when asking for directions. That would at least improve Sydney.

On the other hand, have you ever been to the coal mining areas of Queensland, the main area keeping Queensland's nose above water. They have had a quarter of sweet stuff all spent back in their districts.

If even 10% of the money spent on Gold Coast roads, earned mostly by coal, were to be spent roads in the coal fields, the people would not know themselves.

As for Tasmania, we should offer it to new Zealand. They may just be silly enough to take it off our hands.

On the other hand, perhaps we should make them live on what they actually produce. They would damn soon be harvesting those trees. I for one am sick & tired of paying for their green stupidity.