Trouble at Mill with our Sans Culottes (sans-culottes meaning “without knee breeches” -the radical and militant working-class people of late 18th-century France. As the driving force of the French Revolution, they distinguished themselves from the wealthy elite by wearing long trousers instead of the fashionable, aristocratic silk knee breeches (culottes)).

April 20, 2009, during an address to the State Library of South Australia in Adelaide. [1]

A two-speed future?

We set to work, we announced a plan, we said we were going to have a National Broadband Network, we said we’d invest up to $43 billion, we actually believe this is the infrastructure of the 21st century, just as railways, roads and the rest, telegraph, were in the 19th century and in the 20th century..

The challenge of managing two-speed economies both nationally and at a global level is to find a compromise..

This is an important investment for the future, from which each of the businesses represented in this room will benefit enormously, in ways which the economy at large hasn’t by and large thought through yet. New ways of doing business, new ways in which you can actually sell products across the tyranny of distance which has so far haunted so much of our small business community, or those which are geographically isolated from major markets both here and abroad. This is a fantastic innovation. Also for the way in which Government does business in delivering basic and efficient services and saving public finance, for example in simply the ability to transfer electronically and at speed, patient controlled electronic health records..

A holistic approach, looking at supply and demand both on a local and national scale, and in terms of interconnected economies, will always be necessary for those making decisions at the level of economic policy..

The aim must be to stimulate growth in areas facing economic slowdown whilst trying to avoid over inflation during an unexpected resource boom. This requires a dynamic approach, and one that must be fine-tuned constantly..

This article was originally published 9th June 2017 by ICAS. You can read the article and see the full edition here.

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Prime Minister Speech to the Business Council of Australia Canberra 22 June 2010..

This is a turbo-charging piece of infrastructure which this Government has brought about and is important because unless we have infrastructure at global standards, unless we have skills at global standards, we will not have productivity growth at global standards..

The Cartesian psycho-babblers..

Sweden’s contribution to Age of Romance raison d’etat Philosophy (Warrior-prince European adventurer scientist explorer poet & ‘maiden-deflowerer’ psychopathology 1492 – 1509 to the beginning of the 21st century of the common era noted to have been Rene Descartes contracting pneumonia and obligingly dying and at this precious moment in Ten-thousand years of humanity organised in highly soil-and-garden-management productive FOOD-SECURE lands with recognisably representative citizen-participatory pre liberal-democratic central administrations I’ve momentarily lost track & sign & aegis – my goat-skin, my kabarlic masonic or Royal & Ancient Order of Mental Juvenile Bidden Buffaloes Goat-skin – my Kingdom for my goat’s-kin, man – of the @Substack Cartesian Randite male-ego youkneeverse crappola contributor here but am sure we’ll catch up ..

John Blundell

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