"In this age of plenty (for that is what it is), the only way to save the world from hunger is to distribute wealth fairly. Food is no good if it is stored in the guarded caves of Utah, or in the counting houses of Egypt (reference to the story of Joseph in the Old Testament).
For instance, in Australia we produce enough wheat to feed every Australian family with 1000 tonnes per year. What do we do with the excess? - We export it so that we can increase the cash in the country to help buy all the other necessities of life. Again, the issue is one of economic and political exploitation.
GM is good for Monsanto et al. As to its benefit to anyone else, I suggest you read about Pottinger's cats.
(I will add a reference to Pottinger if anyone asks for it)"

70% of that wheat goes to feed animals that are bred in inhumane circumstances who have no voice, who also don't need no be here to feed every australian as every australian can live off a vegetarian diet...I agree the only way is distrubute all of our valuable resources evenly in the world...and it should start with the grain being distrubuted evenly to HUMANS and stop breeding billions of animals who don't even need to be here and eating our grain! Share and be compassionate to all beings is the answer here, not GM crops

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I would be curious to know what the "big interests" you mention actually are. I am an a radio amateur (VK7NML) and as a Tasmanian resident am well aware of the disastrous effects that BPL has on the radio bands. There are many users of the HF radio band, including us, marine radio, Citizen's Band and many others, both commercial and not. BPL blankets most of the HF band with noise, meaning that we cannot hear any radio signals at all. Furthermore, BPL is susceptible to the effects of local radio transmitters.

This is just a short summary. For a full explanation of the troubles brought by BPL, have a look at http://reast.asn.au/vk7bplwatch.php which is a well referenced and researched overview of what has been observed from the Tasmanian trials, including marketing and cost considerations.

It is not at all the case that this technology would solve all our problems if only everyone else got out of the way -- it simply wouldn't.

Your standard DSL is by far the most cost-effective and reliable way to get the broadband performance to the most people. The infrastructure is in place for people who live in towns. For others more far-flung, wireless internet is the way to go, or satellite if you're very remote.

There are two major factors that are holding back Australia's Internet service -- our high cost international links, and Telstra's price-fixing on consumer ADSL. We should have 10+ Mbit ADSL2+ on every exchange, but they prefer to draw it out, offering their plans at extortionate rates and making use of a concept called a "download quota", which is completely unknown to people in other countries.

International infrastructure and more telco competition are what will solve Australia's Internet problems.

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