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A Bit of History: What might have been - the Painless Rescue of the Pyramid Group    

The 1999 Capital Gains Tax Changes were a Hoax

Five lots of Fees: Gravy Train Hurts Australian Investors

Choice Examples of Gobbledegook

New Housing Proposal is hopelessly flawed

United States Presidential Election 2000

Politicians love Diversions

Date Formats

APRA needs to lift its Game

Negative Gearing Defended

Education in Australia

The ABS Attitude to the Internet is Unfair

Blind Trusts

Calendar Reform

The Royal Mail - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Ethics in Politics and Business

Murderers have Double Standards

Reforming Company Tax

Bad Tenants

Public Liability Law Reform is a Disgrace

Religious Intolerance

Profit is not a Dirty Word

Strong Steps Needed to Fight Inflation

Equity Demands Tax Indexation

Freedom Needs Eternal Vigilance

Time to Rethink State Taxes

Public Service Pensions Need Closer Study

Lack of Ethics and Inefficiencies in the Life Insurance Industry    

Losers all Round    

Charging for Propaganda    

Plain English    

The Cost of Justice    

Ensuring the Accuracy of Links    

McLibel: The greatest corporate Public Relations Disaster ever    

From an earlier version of the Book Understanding Estate Planning:

Planning too far ahead can sometimes have its downside - as one couple found out to their cost.

In 1954 they had purchased a headstone and had allowed the mason to engrave it, showing the first two digits of the year of their deaths as "19".

They asked the mason what would happen if they did not die in 19-something, but he assured them that they would.

In 1999 they were both still alive and in excellent health, but the carver had been dead a long time.

POSTSCRIPT: JUST HOW BIG IS AUSTRALIA?

Question: If each person living on earth today were given a square plot of land,
such that all plots were the same size and the division absorbed
the whole of the Australian land mass, what size would the side of each such square be?

Answer: About 35 metres.

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