the abc mentioned howhards minesterial info
was released from 86

interesting search results

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=wages+howard+archives+release&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

its hard getting into his burble

but did notice these bits

Ministers believed Australians would accept thousands of Indochinese refugees if the nation's obligation to help were explained.

A submission from Mr Howard in June 1980 said government spending as a proportion of GDP was the same in 1979-80 as in 1975-76 - the last year of the Whitlam government - at 38 per cent, compared with 33 per cent in the five years to 1974-75.

In 1980, the Treasury did not foresee the downturn that pushed the developed world, including Australia, into recession just a year later.

But Mr Howard did point to one major reason for it - large wage increases.

well he fixed that

In other words.....the smartest people that control the world, are the one's that's killing this planet that you have to inherit after they have finished with it ,and that's the plain simple facts of the matter, which effects you.

And what are you doing about it? Nothing.

1...They make you pay for your education......not to smart in my realities. If they want the best of the best....your education should be for free.

2...I have friends that come from low in-come families, and these students have some of the highest in-tels that would put most upper level people to shame.

Funny old world:) isn't it.

BLUE