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NSW only gets $100m for the west metro, while Vic­toria is set to get $3.5bn for a metro rail tun­nel in Mel­bourne. Dis­ap­point­ing, but it’s hard to say the Vic­tori­ans don’t deserve it.

10 May 2009 by Enoch Lau | No comments

Len­ovo wins $150m NSW schools deal: It’s great to see the NSW gov­ern­ment giv­ing form to the “digital revolu­tion” by provid­ing laptops to school­chil­dren, but the dom­in­ance of Microsoft and Adobe soft­ware denies NSW kids the chance to see bey­ond the Win­dows strait­jacket — and tax­pay­ers more bang for their buck.

16 Apr 2009 by Enoch Lau | 2 comments

One in 10 Tas­mani­ans racist: So, 46.6% of people in NSW believe that some cul­tural or eth­nic groups don’t fit into Aus­tralian soci­ety. This sort of fig­ure is bound to shake off any naïve belief that Aus­trali­ans have fixed the scourge of racism. I guess, though, it wasn’t alto­gether sur­pris­ing given the brouhaha at Cam­den and Bass Hill. What would you do to cre­ate a more tol­er­ant society?

29 Sep 2008 by Enoch Lau | 4 comments