[jonesboheim]

Why dont they just get their mathematicians from India like we do?

[68skylark]

I don't know how things work in Australia. But when a newspaper complains about "underinvestment" in the U.S., I start worrying about my wallet, and new proposals for counter-productive government spending.

There are plenty of ways to make schools more effective, and these good ideas are long overdue -- more money usually isn't one of them.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Australia's future looks truly bleak!

I imagine a windswept desert devoid of any life but a few wottle bushes and a single two-lane highway.

Along that highway drive crazed anarchists in search of secreted caches of slide rules and HP41C calculators....

MAD MATH

[AmishDude]

Academia likes to focus their money on fraud (stem cells) or threats of disaster (global warming). You hear arguments about "applicability" but I usually think that it's that most people just don't understand it. People just fail to understand both the power and universality of mathematics. All real science starts with math.