The single greatest policy any pollie could ever implement would be proper taxation on gas/mining/oil companies. Completely absurd, but not surprising at all to me that it isn’t in effect though, with Murdoch media and all. Imagine how great this country could be if we had Norway levels of taxation on mineral assets.

I know you just said you shut up about it, but I’m currently in a junior sysadmin role and was wondering what area of IT you’re in?

I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Denmark, small population with fewer news sources makes thing spread VERY quickly. Not to mention, they are very patriotic. I’ll ask some Danish friends about it and report back.