April 2007

Huge amounts of young people take advantage of the first home owners grant when buying or building their first home. What about a change to the first home owners grant to include grid fed energy solutions aswell as a cash payment. If this was introduced, as each new wave of first home owners buy into the real estate market, the phase in of grid fed power solutions will increase dramatically. This will not only save people money but also decrease the base energy load needed by almost every community in Australia. This solution also means that although many people do not have the spare money to spend on these options, it is an accessible option by providing it through the first home owners grant.

The change would need to include environmental first home owner options instead of simply one payment of $7000. Something similar to these options:

Option 1:

$2000 plus 3 grid fed solar panels (installed and connected to the grid)

Option 2:

6 grid fed solar panels (installed and connected to the grid)

This would mean an incredible increase in renewable solutions at an individual home level which will be accessible to all people in Australia.

For the government this would provide lower base level power needed to almost all Australian communities, which means the government can put all resources into the implementation of real and practical clean power solutions to cater for Australia’s needs.

Grid fed power using wind or solar is a massive step into the future however the cost of this technology is still relatively high, which means the majority of people, weather environmentally aware or not, can simply not afford these solutions and do not have the extra money in order to embrace these options.

http://www.originenergy.com.au/home/template.php?pageid=174

I have been planning a new business service for some time now and we are about to bring it to market.

We believe that our approach provides a unique capacity to significantly reduce a small to medium size business’s tele-communications costs, while radically increasing their ability to know and resapond to their customers needs and wishes.  Our service provides end-to-end secure business IT support with radically increased information quality, reduced searching time, eliminate IT Brain Freeze while costing less than many of small businesses pay for their phones now.

We call it Business In a Box - and I will expand on it and add links as I go.

Over the past 10 years or so, we (Australia) have seen a steady decrease in personal liberties in the name of protecting individual freedom.

This is to me is a little like fighting for peace, ( I would have used the other analogy, but I do need to keep this clean).

The one single issue that has amazed me is that of David Hicks and his internment for 5 years without charge with the complicity of the Australian Government. In the end he will server a few more months and be released.

At no stage in the process did we ever know exactly what he was supposed to have done - other than glib comments about him being a “terrorist” - a catch-all to shut up anyone that has the audacity to question the current administration.

To me the treatment of David Hicks means that no one can actually rely on the accepted notion of innocent until proven guilty, something most of us assumed was our unaliable right as Asutralian citizens. My understandning is that it is this one principal that defines our ‘freedom’. By stripping this from Hicks the current Austrlian Government has set a precident that severly impacts anyone’s freedom to disagree with the authorities. There is no guarantee that you or I won’t be treated in the same disgusting way.
We afford legal process to mass killers (Martin Bryant, Ivan Milat, the Snow Town crowd), who have commited crimes that dwarf the Hicks invovlement in ethnic struggle, but add the word ‘terrorist’ and its OK to treat someone any way you please. We didn’t even insist on application of the Geneva convention.

I wholeheartedly support moves to charge and try anyone that seeks to break the laws of the land, particularly if that includes violence. If Hicks broke the law, he shoud be punished, in accordance with the law. But that did not happen. He was punished first with a detailed and coordinated media assault on his character, but no charges for 5 YEARS!!! When,finally, our Government was embarrassed into ‘managing the situation’ (not through due process), we get the spectacle of a forced confession and a custodial sentence, politically determined to minimise the adverse impact on the government’s polling results.

This government, and particularly the PM and Attorney General should hang their heads in shame, as far as I know they are first to subvert justice in the name of trying to defend it.

As an elector and citizen of Austrlia, I demand a full explanation of why this was allowed to happen, and further :

• What crimes are so bad that a citizen of Australia can expect to forego due process because someone from another country thinks so?
• What third party countries are able to kidnap our citizens, hold and torture them without providing legal representation?
• What is the difference between what the Australian and US Administrations have done to Habib, Hicks and others and the Hezbollah, PLO, Iran have done when they kidnap innocent (remember under our laws, Hick and co were innocent until the court case ended, if they got one) people, hold and torture them? From my reading these folk make the same claims of right that the US and Austrlian Governments did.

I guess the old guy I met when I was young was right when he said “There are no good guys in this“.

Well after only 5 years, I have the company blog running. I have only recently decided that we can start to tell out companies story and see what we can do to grow our networks.

It is quite late here so, I will head off to bed now, but I am looking forward to making my notes here.

Back soon…