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• Regional currency
• Improving politics - A TV and radio serial at 8 p.m. in which Ministers of the Crown in turn present the work being done in their department, and finally the Leader of the Opposition stating the opposition case where it differs. The advantages are many.
• Population - A UN Convention on the Right to a Child
  13 draft FACT SHEETS about the World and Australia now available as pdfs to complete and use
• World population tables, compiled from the American Census Data Base
• The Australia 2020 Summit, The Fringe Ruddfest Radical submissions on the 10 topics
• Cutting carbon emissions
• Concepts that are needed
• Alternative thinking that is needed
• Improving economics
• Communication
• Imagining Peace
• Poverty and Population Publications - a selection
• Comments on events 2006

CONCEPTS that are needed - Words are swords, and memes run around the world

• Economic and political concepts for the future
• Economic concepts for the future - and Economic Concepts for the 21st Century
• Social arithmetic - assessing generalisations by actually counting
• Imagine peace

ALTERNATIVE THINKING to help solve current problems

• World Dilemmas- Globalism, Tribalism and Civilisation
• Population - population crises and cycles in the past
• Population tables and graphs (PDF)
• Population dilemmas and the population tsunami
• Poverty prevention
• Ageing populations need not be disastrous
• Climate disasters - Responding to the present and the possible future
• Sorry Day - When it is a Sorry Day for today, rather than for what happened yesterday.
• Wasting our heritage
• War criminals - the suppliers of arms and mines
• Water - more precious than oil
• Green, profit and jobs - Maintaining profits, jobs and quality of life in a world without waste, preventing climate change, and saving the world's resources. Impossible?

IMPROVING POLITICS

• Left and Right in politics
• Socialism - when socialism is stupid
• Capitalism - when capitalism is stupid
• Elections - more democratic alternativs
• Government alternativfor Australia - an Ozroypublic - the solution for republicanism and monarchism - the Greatest Show in Government and on television

IMPROVING ECONOMICS

• Jobs for the future
• Jobs that are needed
• Inventions that are needed
• Jobs - Fair work for the unemployed
• Jobs - Fair pay for the 'working poor'
• Regional currency
• Workers in failing businesses
• Multilateral Agreements on Investment - Alternatives
• Taxes alternativs - /taxes.htm and /taxes2.html
• Insurance Reforms needed, - insure.htm and Limited liability - limliabl.htm

COMMUNICATION

• News alternatives -News we would like to know. /newslik.htm
• PEACE - it can be imagined
• Peace - Index of Peace pages -/peaceindex.htm
• A United Nations PEACE PACKAGE of 19 UN Resolutions to help achieve peace -/peaceun.htm
• Peace marchers demonstrating for peace, not just against war -/peacmarch.htm
• War - Landmines as war crimes - /minecri.htm
• War crimes - Weapons of Horrible Destruction - /peacecrim.htm

POVERTY AND POPULATION

• Economic concepts
  
• Alternativ jobs for the future
  
• Preventing poverty
  
• Notes on population growth
  
• Further notes on population growth as a coming tsunami
  
• Population - Cycles and crashes in history
  
• World population growth - graphs (and see pdf)
  
• World population growth - tables (and see pdf)
  
• An ageing population is not disastrous

Link: See Wecandobetter online pages

and links of interest