well, one bright ray amongst the downpour was the fact that small businesses get some protection from unfair contract clauses imposed by bigger firms (in effect being treated as individuals). However, for comparison here is NZ budget
http://publicaddress.net/keith/budget2014/HotTree.html#expenditure.real.2014.2315 with 3 biggest growth spots being International Business Growth Services (+$111M) New Zealand Screen Production Grant – International (+$57.7M) Advanced Technology Institute (+$48.1M) so I suppose we'll see smarter hobbits doing the big OE sometime soon :-). Lawrence http://www.linkedin.com/in/drllau On Thursday, 15 May 2014 12:08:17 UTC+12, christo wrote: > > > On 14 May 2014, at 7:40 pm, Geoff Langdale > <geoff.l...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > […] > > > ...showing that inertia and stupidity are bipartisan. > > > > Love it > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.