Two Oz current (12 April 2010) news items to make you think:
* ‘Medical radiation is estimated to trigger about 400 cancers a year here’.
* ‘The richest 1% of taxpayers – now 9.8% of all income; in 2002-3 they earned 8.8%. The 15000 ‘super rich’ – 0.1% (incomes $693,000+) = 3.6% of taxpayers (up from 2.7% in 2002-3, and the highest level since the 1920s and the 1950 wool boom)’
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