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Comment Re:Uber isn't collecting GST? (Score 2) 125

in Canada, you don't have to charge GST if you make less than $30,000 in revenue.

$75,000 in Australia. But passengers are paying Uber, not the driver. Uber is evading tax by operating across the border.
Of course they also pay no company tax, insurance, taxi-registration or comply in any way with industry regulation.

If Uber is forced to collect GST, it will then be in the drivers' interest to register for GST so they can claim GST deductions for expenses.

Comment Re:Citation please (Score 1) 187

Can you show that the correlation isn't to poverty, and not race?

All the data shows crime correlates to both of course. Are you confusing correlation with causality?
Suppose the race correlate disappear once controlling for poverty. How much difference would that make? Black people are poorer everywhere. It is not just a local US problem you can blame on the shameful history of slavery. There is no simple fix. But getting rid of handguns and legalising drugs would be a good start.

Comment Re:flooding in 3, 2, 1 ... (Score 0) 126

And in our all our 'political correctness' nobody is willing to talk about the primary elements of the problem, which are kids being brought up in broken homes or no home at all with no family or community support structure. ... the vicious cycle can only be broken

The "vicious cycle" is a myth, or at least a common assumption not backed by evidence. Numerous adoption studies show that the home environment and immediate community has only a small effect in childhood, and that fades away to zero as the child gets older. Parenting is not the problem, even though it looks that way, the science says otherwise. The real "cycle" is genetic, but that is even less politically correct.

    Poor communities in the US don't need iPads, they don't even need more books. Ownership of books is correlated, not causal, to economic success.
What they need is things like a respectable minimum wage, affordable healthcare, child-care, policing, ...

    People who once had a reliable well-paid job on an assembly line might now be stacking shelves at Walmart and unable to afford the rent, let alone a mortgage.

   

Comment Re:Just waiting to be exploited (Score 1) 109

Doesn't matter. For one, NAPLAN is not an admissions test. There is not a lot of motivation for individuals to cheat.
And it is a literacy test, so the accuracy of content is irrelevant.
The test does not need to be especially accurate for individuals. Collectively they provide data to compare classes and schools.

Yes, people will try to game the system. Australia already has lots of after-school coaching classes, full of kids of Asian immigrants, teaching cramming and exam technique. No doubt they are already drilling kids on every smuggled past-paper they can find, even though Naplan results are not supposed to be important.

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