A short article on a study about how cities/nations invariably massively underestimate the cost of hosting the games when they bid, why the budget blows out, how the infrastructure built to host the games provides a much lower value to the ongoing life of the community relative to other capital developments, and that some sort …

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I’m feeling somewhat in agreement with the idea going around that Australia’s new five dollar note design is a scheme to make Australia become a republic: make a design so ugly that Queen Elizabeth 2 formally requests her portrait be taken off it and dissociates herself from any future usage. Judge for yourself.

Rob Duncanson has posted some information about a teaching week that will be taking place in East Timor in early June. David Burke returns and is joined by: Peter Burke – missionary in Nigeria and financial organiser; Alex Ralston – APWM treasurer and economist; and David Bell – observer. Themes will be Mark’s Gospel and …

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