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In article <Z1%ed.38052$5O5.30796@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Stan Pierce wrote:
> 
> "DBDriver" <DBDriver@iig2.com.au> wrote in message
> news:tK_ed.38035$5O5.29994@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> Back on topic though, I think a slush fund (eg. The Prime Ministers Trust)
>> or the like would be a real winner. This could be allocated by the PM
> yearly
>> as a direct incentive to Uni's to focus on the big public research issues
>> the Aus needs to address countrywide in the coming years... Salinity,
> Water
>> and Energy. Ideally the PM would set the agenda of concern (and region of
>> concern) and have the Unis tender for the award - but in a colaborative
>> approach.
>> RJ.
> 
> I think the point has come for a seige attitude towards water and energy.
> Not just research in Uni departments.  Treat the problem as as a war
> effort... in other words DO IT NOW.
> Get big industry  to see that *they* will benefit by the expansion of
> projects.  Just make it all Home Grown...all Australian effort.
>  Even let big business draw up projects that will financially benefit them
> and give guarantees of price and finishing time.  Then give them tax breaks
> of several years to get started.  This would give a psychological boost in
> society like Hitler created.  The whole world would be watching and that
> alone would give the edge to succeed.
> It all has to start in the mind.
> Energy and water are the NEXT BIG THING.   Australians  could make the world
> sit up and gawp if they set their minds to it.
> 
> 
> 

Yes what we need is a Todt organisation with all the DSPs, dole bludgers,
single mothers, unemployed etc. marching off to plant trees with sloped shovels.  
Then we will be able to water the lawns and golf courses automatically day and
night; rain, hail or shine.

P.M.
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