http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com Observations on Life and the World Around Me Sun, 20 May 2012 18:59:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/312/environment/312/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/312/environment/312/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:48:30 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=312 There has been a lot of debate about the population forecasts for Australia. Many of them are about environment and sustainability. If anyone looks or investigates the arguments more closely, it is less about environment and more about an ageing population. And that is scary. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/312/environment/312/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/300/uncategorized/australia-and-cultural-change/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/300/uncategorized/australia-and-cultural-change/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:56:08 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/300/uncategorized/australia-and-cultural-change/ Culture evolves and transforms all the time. One day something is taboo. The next it has become an icon. One of the cultural phases that Australia has gone through has been this one. Whether you want to believe it or … Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/300/uncategorized/australia-and-cultural-change/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/295/business/overseas-workers-and-the-economy/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/295/business/overseas-workers-and-the-economy/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:43:41 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=295 Outsourcing is one of those issues that gets a lot of media coverage and it’s been particularly rampant of late. The problem is that it has a lot of repercussions for the Australian worker and the government. The practice of … Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/295/business/overseas-workers-and-the-economy/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/278/politics/investing-in-nothing/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/278/politics/investing-in-nothing/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:27:48 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=278 This is a story about how one person can fool so many people into believing he has a product that he doesn't actually have. In the case of Firepower, it was a pill that would reduce the emissions of petrol. And how so many people believed him. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/278/politics/investing-in-nothing/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/269/politics/global-connections-and-disconnected-communities/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/269/politics/global-connections-and-disconnected-communities/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:01:37 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=269 Social isolation, particularly among the elderly, is fast becoming a serious problem in many western societies and the problem isn’t necessarily related to geographic distance. In fact, some of the saddest examples of lonely lives and deaths have been found in some of our most built-up locations. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/269/politics/global-connections-and-disconnected-communities/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/263/politics/silly-economic-theories/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/263/politics/silly-economic-theories/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:28:01 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=263 Unemployment figures and interest rates both reflect a government’s economic management capability and no matter what the story is out in the real world, it is the story that is on the front page of the daily newspapers that really counts. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/263/politics/silly-economic-theories/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/254/environment/the-economics-of-waste/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/254/environment/the-economics-of-waste/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:17:38 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=254 The amount of food wasted globally is scandalous but our economies have really become dependent on over-consumption and that is where most of the problem lies. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/254/environment/the-economics-of-waste/feed/ 9 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/240/environment/cash-free-lives/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/240/environment/cash-free-lives/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:34:39 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=240 When 26 year old Katherine Hibbert from the UK, a journalist, lost a job and found her rent was going up she headed for a life on the streets. The experience was a good, if not challenging one and led to a life she now enjoys and prefers. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/240/environment/cash-free-lives/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/233/politics/a-fair-working-australia/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/233/politics/a-fair-working-australia/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:16:40 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=233 “Fair Work” does not go as far as it should in looking after the worker and certainly doesn't revert to standards of two decades ago. It does however address some of the pitiful arrangements the past administration cast on the Australian worker. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/233/politics/a-fair-working-australia/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/204/environment/religion-in-global-politics/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/204/environment/religion-in-global-politics/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:15:35 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=204 Religion plays a big part in the lives of millions around the globe. This must give many of these religious leaders enormous influence in world affairs, something that can’t be too bad a thing provided the influence is used to better the lives of the most vulnerable among us. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/204/environment/religion-in-global-politics/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/185/environment/colourful-copenhagen/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/185/environment/colourful-copenhagen/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:38:48 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=185 The current Climate Change conference in Copenhagen has been reported as the largest conference in UN history where politicians and officials from 192 nations have gathered to resolve the international pollution problem. Can they do it? Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/185/environment/colourful-copenhagen/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/150/environment/baffling-us-with-science/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/150/environment/baffling-us-with-science/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:39:31 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=150 One of the policies that helped Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party win government back in 2007 was a commitment to environment protection and preservation. Now public opinion has started shifting as the costs of committing to an international Emissions Trading Scheme are starting to emerge and more concrete issues are taking more of a priority. . Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/150/environment/baffling-us-with-science/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/141/politics/morality-boat-people-and-the-financial-crisis/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/141/politics/morality-boat-people-and-the-financial-crisis/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:42:06 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/141/uncategorized/morality-boat-people-and-the-financial-crisis/ Anyone with the slightest religious beliefs, despite what religion it is, or an affinity for the importance of morals and values in society must wonder at least sometimes how we incorporate morals, values and a social conscience into modern society. … Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/141/politics/morality-boat-people-and-the-financial-crisis/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/132/politics/superannuation-and-the-casual-worker/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/132/politics/superannuation-and-the-casual-worker/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:43:12 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=132 Left out of superannuation discussions almost entirely are the dwindling accounts of the nation’s casual workers. This group, while being almost entirely ignored when it comes to the subject of superannuation, is far from insignificant. Even modest estimates claim casual workers represent more than a quarter of the entire workforce. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/132/politics/superannuation-and-the-casual-worker/feed/ 1 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/118/politics/the-unemployed-and-cyberspace/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/118/politics/the-unemployed-and-cyberspace/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:50:27 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=118 The statistics may have caught many senior economists by surprise, many of whom had predicted total employment to decline by 10,000 in September, but it means little to those who have found themselves out on the scrap heap and into the long haul of searching for work Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/118/politics/the-unemployed-and-cyberspace/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/106/politics/japan-overthrows-conservative-rule/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/106/politics/japan-overthrows-conservative-rule/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:29:42 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/106/politics/japan-overthrows-conservative-rule/ Now another major player in world politics has turned its back on conservative rule and the new leader in Japan has come to power with ambitious promises. The new government leader, Yukio Hatoyama, has promised to focus spending on consumers, reduce the power of the bureaucracy and cut wasteful government spending. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/106/politics/japan-overthrows-conservative-rule/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/94/society/women-and-gangs/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/94/society/women-and-gangs/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:15:20 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=94 There is a new wave of violence and it has nothing to do with men. It is women who are now joining street gangs and choosing victims to pick on. According to an article in the “News of the World” … Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/94/society/women-and-gangs/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/61/politics/jobs-status-and-earning-money/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/61/politics/jobs-status-and-earning-money/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:45:16 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=61 Lately, there seems a real trend for some who have done really well to boast about the menial jobs they did before they found success. Recalling a variety of jobs he did in his younger years including cleaning, flipping hamburgers, working in a supermarket and pulling beers, our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd admitted on radio that cleaning loos in a sawmill was probably the hardest one. Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/61/politics/jobs-status-and-earning-money/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/48/environment/wasting-food/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/48/environment/wasting-food/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:03:51 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=48 World food markets are mostly, but not entirely, a legacy of the market economy, the globalisation of world trade.  Although the obsession to ship food products around the world is just one of the reasons behind  the alarming amount of … Continue reading →]]> http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/48/environment/wasting-food/feed/ 0 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/39/politics/social-change-in-japan/ http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/39/politics/social-change-in-japan/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:46:58 +0000 http://socialpages.worldblogosphere.com/?p=39 Many of the Japanese are so disillusioned with life and so appalled by how corporate greed has ruined their lives they are flocking to the Communist Party in droves and turning their backs on capitalism. 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