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Friday, November 03, 2023
Friday, December 08, 2023
Do not be misled. Western Australia is one-third of the country, also one third the size of the USA. The Shire of Dundas in length eclipses any county in Texas, but the town of Norseman is the entire population (check out the population distribution at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_of_Dundas )
The solution of the shire buying a supermarket differs in no way from the Bonavista council buying a supermarket.
This strikes me very much as a Co-op in the UK sense of the 1950s.
Saturday, December 09, 2023
"And when you've got more people in work, working more and earning more, then that has implications for the tax take. We want people to earn more. That has implications for the budget but our primary reason for wanting that is so that people can meet the cost of living and provide for their loved ones."
So was quoted Jim Chalmers, Australia’s federal treasurer in Interest rate hikes are hurting households but there’s a way bigger drain on our finances going unnoticed — your tax bill
Saturday, January 06, 2024
Modern fisheries crises present special cases of the boom-and-bust cycles common to natural-resource-dependent communities. The Faeroe Islands, an affluent North Atlantic society that is among the most fisheries dependent on earth, experienced a crisis during the 1990s after resources became depleted through a combination of over fishing and environmental stress. Unemployment and business failures ensued; out-migration, mainly by young adults, altered the size and composition of the islands' population .
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
While researching in a different field I came across this article about the closure of the BHP steelworks in Newcastle NSW. The BHP Newcastle was my first paid job in computing 1968-1970. Make what you will of the two images below.
There is a full article in PDF form here .
The year I started work (1968) was the year that the Western Australian boom in iron and related ores took off. Today Western Australia accounts for 98% of Australia’s iron ore exports. For the past fifty years iron ore has been shipped to Asia to make a quick buck, and Asia’s efficiency at converting ore to steel has undermined the Australian steel industry so much as to close it. (in the late 60’s I was told that BHP was Australia’s largest private company, with its financial worth exceeding that of the state of Victoria)
You can draw parallels with the 1992 cod moratorium, but Newcastle today appears to be booming. Why is Newcastle different from Newfoundland?
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Public school education costs provides figures of $ AUS 92,000 “Putting a child through public school from prep to year 12 in a major city is now estimated to set families back more than $92,000, according to new data from Futurity Investment Group. These estimates blow out to more than $195,000 for Catholic schools and more than $315,000 for independent schools.”
Public (“free”) |
Catholic |
Independent |
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|---|---|---|---|
92,000 |
195,000 |
315,000 |
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p.a. (13 years) |
7,100 |
15,000 |
24,200 |
At time of writing, one Canadian dollar was the equivalent to 1.12 Australian dollars. So:-
Public (“free”) |
Catholic |
Independent |
|
|---|---|---|---|
92,000 |
195,000 |
315,000 |
|
p.a. (13 years) |
7,100 |
15,000 |
24,200 |
$cdn |
6,300 |
13,400 |
21,600 |
Note the $6,300. My first estimate of high school costs as $5,000 p.a. for capital costs, not personal expenditure by parents.
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-06/short-term-rentals-airbnb-housing-crisis/103400820
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/bankwest-to-close-60-branches-in-perth-wa/103555124
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Events planned in Gander for total eclipse of the sun Gander has prepared for the solar eclipse on April 8th; the video says that they are hosting a three-day program April 6th, 7th, 8th. For weeks I have been wondering why Bonavista isn’t hosting. After all, Gander is on the edge of the path of totality, whereas Bonavista promises a full four minutes of totality.
Maberly is, I think, on the centre-line of the path of totality.
The St John’s astronomical society is going to Gander. Why is it not attracted to Bonavista?
Consider not so much the loss of revenue (restaurants, B&B etc) but the lost prospect of Bonavista being “On the map” for years to come.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/ghost-towns-in-tasmania-gormanston-princess-river/103633078 These towns died, like most mining towns across Australia, because they had a single source of business – a mine.
Diversify! Is the message. A clutch of small businesses offers a better springboard to a town’s success that a single major industry. Bonavista has a Hospital as one of its few major employers. A crab packing plant is the other.
Suppose that for every ten small businesses started, one went on to employ ten people. 180 opportunities suggests employment for 180 people, and that can mean 180 families. Expanded schools, …
Thursday, April 18, 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/pay-day-mr-luke-springer/103645188
Monday, May 13, 2024
Universal credit claimants must seek 18 hours work
Monday, June 17, 2024
Of the UK's core cities, Birmingham has the highest number of people claiming unemployment support, with 12 per cent of residents relying on government benefits , compared to just five per cent in London.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Swedish town's attention-grabbing campaign to sell land for price of a coffee could save it
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
“ … with one study finding parents typically spend about $240,000 on each kid from birth to age 18. “.
These are Australian figures (1 CAD = 1.1 AUS)
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Why it's 'very hard' to find work in Canada
Nite the single quotes. Does the articl want to say “not REALLY very hard”? If there are no jobs in existing businesses, then the answer must be “create more businesses”; perhaps each business starts off as a two-man team …
Monday, September 30, 2024
Cruise Ship Visiting Corner Brook Today
(1) When was the latest time that a cruise ship docked in Bonavista?
(2) Did the ship’s passengers come ashore?
(3) Why don’t cruise ships visit Bonavista?
(4) Would a cruise from st John’s to Bonavista and back offer a chance to see icebergs, whales?
St. John’s seeing cruise ship “The National Geographic Explorer cruise ship is making another stop in St. John’s today.The ship docks this morning at 6:00 a.m. and will remain in port until 8:00 p.m.It carries 154 passengers and has stops across the Maritimes and Newfoundland.“
In the past five years, where have cruiseships visited (ports) in Newfoundland? Why do they visit those places? Why not have a small-ship that visits (say) twelve coastal locations around Newfoundland?
Sunday, October 06, 2024
Ultima's $1 real estate sale was supposed to boost its population. But did it work? “Mr Lee said a town needed to have either work prospects, or an enticing aspect for people to come and retire in a town.”
Friday, October 18, 2024
How a rail trail revived the historic gold mining town Lisa Millar grew up in
Our town is dying from the inside out
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Inside highway town Plainland's housing boom after Woolworths set up shop Not an exact image of Bonavista; “ … the tiny town of Plainland on the adjacent Warrego Highway — the main thoroughfare between Brisbane and Toowoomba” is in a differenty position from Bonavista, at the end of highway 230 that runs the length of the Bonavista peninsula. Still and all it is worth considering the impact of a Costco or a WalMart in the town of Bonavista. Even a scaled down version, initially, might well attract customers. I’d be there looking for cheap cans of tomato paste.
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