Word: a100
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...young boy, Adeang used to watch the country's fleet of new planes roll up and down the island's runway, and its cargo ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford to pay him and his fellow ministers, including the nation's president, $A100 a fortnight. Even the minister must rely on relatives catching fish to feed him and his family. It's a sorry fall from the 1960s and '70s when phosphate exports brought the 21-sq. km republic wild riches. Now the wealth, and most of the phosphate, is gone, squandered in poor...
...reform; the Opposition has trimmed its radical urges in hopes of creeping back into power. The tax system remains a mess; it's neither fair nor simple nor good for the economy. Investment in the future is miserly. Students should be getting better teaching and facilities for their $A100,000 university degrees. The spread of broadband - which will be a dynamic tool in the new economy - is woefully slow. But it's not that kind of election. Perhaps next time the economic ideas contest will be more inspiring. It certainly will be more urgent...
...Cassette-Corder TCM-453V could turn up in a Swallow show soon. If so, its speed control could prove useful. The pace with which Swallow has risen in the art world is staggering: in 1999, aged 25, he went from being on the dole to winning the $A100,000 Contempora 5 Art Prize in Melbourne, followed by a white-hot career based in Los Angeles and now London. That rapidity contrasts with the stillness of his work. With his best-known piece, the head of Darth Vader made from layers of charcoal MDF board (Model for a Sunken Monument...