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''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
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Thursday, March 25, 2004
Analysis By the Electorate for the Electorate
Stephen Barber and Andrew Kopras take recently published postcode taxation statistics and aggregate them to an electorate basis. Summary information on such items as taxpayers, taxable income, tax paid and net tax ratio are shown for each electorate in Australia. Six tables ranking the electorates by various taxation categories are provided as well as two choropleth (colour coded) maps.
· See Also Taxable income and tax paid in Commonwealth electoral divisions, 2000–01 (PDF) [ courtesy of Successful delivery of professional and non-partisan services in a partisan environment]
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How Do you Feel ... Down But Not Out
The personal, intellectual, and political faults of Sartre are obvious today. Yet how much poorer we’d be without his oeuvre
· Accidental Friends
If you define “miracle” as a one in a million chance, then normal folks observe miracles, including ESP, about once a month
· See Also Australian & American colonies, including New Amsterdam, were rife with utopian loonies, sex deviants, and scary criminals: fine future citizens of the New World...
· Touch and Taste Australia: Dining Downunder: Didgeridoo & Fujara
Sydney Trend every Mittel Earth European Elector approves of!
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