Amykingswinburne’s Weblog

A few bits and pieces from my researchUniversity funding from the Federal Government has been reduced by 30% between 1996 – 2004. Compared to the rest of the world that has increased funding by 48%.Australia does well in research. Australia only makes up 0.3% of the world population but produces 2% of the world research.The recent apology to the Aboriginal was highlight by a stat that say 21% of kid in the NT reach a grade 5 reading standard compared to 89% for the rest of Australia.The Rudd government is purposing high speed broadband for everyone which would make the internet 100 times faster. I view that the Rudd government are now treating the internet like bread and milk and that it should be available to everyone for cheap.There is a new thing in Marketing called neuromarketing where they track brainwave while making purchases and have found that men really ain’t into products that use sex as a tool but just blue runners instead. Lastly Alan Jones who has his own talk radio and has been know to say the wrong thing  ie Cronulla riots/ Cash for comment still is able to broadcast its not what you say its who your friends are.