Australian Oz Ideas and Innovations 2008

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1. After Australia 2020 Summit
2. Loud Music and the Brain
3. a year’s moratorium on crime entertainment
4. Assessing children’s silent
5. Further Links
6. Spelling for international English language schemes
7. The future of English spelling
8. Further experiments to spell sensibly
9. Cutting out surplus letters
10. Quick gidelines for a next step

OzIdeas 2009

New Ozideas for 2009 on can be found at http://www.home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas2009

The Australia 2020 Summit Ideas in Action

Send us your news about practical action outcomes from the Summit, to put up on Ozideas2008. It must not be left as a time of talk only.

Features

Help the Aged. How government, industry, publishing and the media can stop making life harder for the growing numbers of elderly, and help to keep them independent.

Living in society

A Really New Book of Manners that oil the wheels of living

Natural Childcare and Unnatural Childcare

Waste nothing - series in e-magazine Bonzer

Literacy

News about the Literacy DVD, Help yourself to read and spell . . 30-minute program to watch 3 times to clear up
gaps and confusions

http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au. The English writing system in cartoon video to help learners and teachers -
Free to copy and download

Can literacy be made easier? The Psychologist, April 2007

Free help in dyslexia testing and clearing up problems -
An International English Spelling Commission for English as the world's lingua franca. pdf

A pronunciation key for international English language schemes, such as Globish and Basic Global English
ABC picture chart, as used in child-play video

Spelling guides in children's dictionaries

Topical in Australia

Democracy and Elections
• Making elections democratic. At present in Australia voters are not adequately informed, and they do not have a decent chance to vote in their own interests. Costs are excessive and benefit media advertisers. These abuses could be reformed.

History and Australian history - an overall view of time and space.
See also People they laughed at

A crisis of human energy
What is mental energy?

Ageing populations
Making life harder for an ageing population

Your ideas and comments are welcome. The subject title for sending email messages is 'OzIdeas'. Please tell us of any missing links or images. Contribute, make your own links, promote ideas and innovations with projects, sponsorships and competitions.

See also the Global Ideas Bank of the Institute for Social Inventions and its Suggestions Box.

Free help in dyslexia testing and clearing up problems - An International English Spelling Commission for English as the world's lingua franca. pdf

Free help in dyslexia testing and clearing up problems -
An International English Spelling Commission for English as the world's lingua franca. pdf