Kampark seems delighted by Singapore's downfall in the face of the Chinese 'flu. All that conservativism and death penalties are no match for it. Let's concentrate on our own problems and political incompetence, loss of freedoms, police surveillance outside shops, threats of 'covid passports', and Scott Morrison.

Kampark seems delighted by Singapore's downfall.
ttbn,
One would think that by now you simply wouldn't expect any different from that author !

I'm sorry but, the problem that has always been ignored there here and everywhere, has been poverty and its flow consequences when it is ignored by the arrogant head buriers who invariably exploit it to the max.

And in their imperfect response to a pandemic, failed a particularly vulnerable migrant group. And instead allowed them to remain in crowded dorms. And come and go to work they needed to just barely survive!

Covid spreads and mutates in carriers! And needs some contact to allow that! Albeit, denied by some so-called medical experts. Who claimed it was relatively stable and ignored the aerosol transmission in close quarters, hotel quarantine.

When only island quarantine is fit for purpose for a killer virus that has resulted in a worldwide death toll that required mass graves. And could have been avoided if, fit for purpose, island quarantine, was the first line of defence.

Fortunately, we now have a couple of extremely powerful and promising therapeutics that first and foremost, protects the user from blood clots and offer some level of protection from the virus. And applied 3 times a day as a nasal spray.

We could be setting up to manufacture millions of doses and we should, except we are led by crimson fools? Whose combined medical could be written on the back of a postage stamp, using a crowbar dipped in tar for a pen.

The second, an antiviral that is injected and kills 99.99% of all coronaviruses including the common cold. And without significant side effects. Again we need a head start getting this to manufacture, here and now as billions of doses we can distribute/sell to the world ASAP.

All that is missing is the political will and an energy policy that's fit for that purpose. TBC.
Alan B

individual,

I know. But he's a regular who who has a fair range of options for us agree or disagree with. Today, for instance, he is the only one.

Cont.
The fit for purpose energy policy is MSR thorium. And can be very safely retasked as a nuclear waste burner, waste we are paid annual billions to store!

Bob Hawke state in one of his last interviews, [and here I paraphrase,] that failing to accept that plan for us to be the world's premier nuclear waste repository, was to his eternal regret, given the economic advantages we could have enjoyed along with the inflow of billions of annual dollars we could have earned by just being more pragmatic and less fearful.

No, the sky will not fall if we were to become the world's premier nuclear waste repository. And if burnt first as proposed, reduce the subsequent half-life to just 300 years!

I can assure you that all I've proposed can be done very safely with little if any risk, but with a huge economic upside. And that any such reactor built here can be so shielded as to produce less radiation than escapes from either a coal-fired power plant or a gas one.

That stealing from such a reactor would require enormous resources, given it operates in a molten state and at around 70C.

That the alleged corrosion problems have been sorted as has the tritium bleed off!

Moreover, the waste product of MSR thorium is far less toxic, is around 5% and eminently suitable as long-life space batteries, that burn up with reentry!

Coal produces far more toxic waste as does the manufacture of solar panels that are themselves constructed with many toxic materials that are destined to become future landfill 25-30 years from now!

And that turbines need to tun for 30+ years just to offset the carbon created in their manufacture!
Alan B.

If we are to become a manufacturing hub exporting among other things medical therapeutics, we need several things, the first being a fit for purpose, publicly-owned energy sector. The second, genuine tax reform that is entirely unavoidable above a generous tax-free threshold and never ever includes bracket creep.

And that my friends is a flat tax of just 15%! It's huge tax relief for those paying their fair share of tax and as proposed, doubles annual revenue! And resisted on all sides of the political spectrum, given the political servitude to this or those political masters/special vested interests/media moguls with messiah complexes, who would rule the world?

The final piece of this fit for purpose resuscitated manufacturing sector and to the absolute max possible, is, cooperative capitalism as modest employee-owned co-ops, funded and facilitated by government. that then maximises employment economic growth.

Plus, just to keep it out of the hands of foreign exploiters who, avoid our tax system, asset strip and repatriate profits! Always take much more than they ever give!
Alan B.

Always take much more than they ever give!
Alan B,
Yes, Flat Tax, no negative gearing & promotion only by way of merit !
We need to rid ourselves of the Peter Principle in the Public Service !
Gap Year (National Service)
We'd wake up to a wonderful Nation the day after the above are put in place !

Here's the thing, we need to some say, reopen the borders to foreign workers? Why? Because they can't get Aussies to do those jobs?

Why? Because they can't hack heatwave conditions that would result in many cases of heatstroke? But more than that, the wages are just slave labour wages in so many instances and some industries are rife with wages theft and take it or leave it, substandard accommodation.

Then there is payroll tax and company tax! And all too often an energy bill that is higher than the wages bill! And made so by the passengers it asked to carry as investor drones demand higher returns and capital gains. Assisted by deaf, dumb and blind pollies dancing to the donor's tune and that of vested interest/ foreign investors.

We need mobile shade and cooling innovation in heatwave harvesting to ensure the workers can complete a full days work and we need to lift accommodation standards to that we'd visit on our own rallies/kids.

And if we need more skills, let's train up local talent to employ our own!

Foreign workers, we've needed just suppress needed wages growth? And allow labour-hire companies to rip off folk who don't know what the award rate is or what the minimum wage rate is. Clued-in Aussies are not going to touch that!

Covid and the required border closures has lifted some blindfolds and comfortable complacency. People need to be able to earn a decent wage, so that being required to take 2-3 weeks off is no longer an impossible ask! And it never ever should have been!

We need to embrace cooperative capitalism to ensure those we ask to earn all our wealth for us! Have some incentivising skin in the game! And we need lower energy, tax and transport costs that are very doable if we remove/ignore the aforementioned special vested interest etc!
Alan B.

I don't think we need a wages growth, what we need is a salaries reduction ! After all, it's all about balance. Higher wages only push up undeserved salaries !
Qantas realised that now with their 2-year salaries/wages freeze.
Alan Joyce for manager of Australia perhaps ?