This is my second time to visit this
page about this award and my urge has become stronger that the age
restriction would not be helpful to finding real and the best
solution to the population sustainability issue.
While it is clearly good to encourage
young people to think about it, the smaller feasibility area does
constraint the optimal results, unless the best result in the
unrestricted optimisation coincides with this smaller feasible area
optimisation.
If Mr Dick Smith is not only interested
in encouraging young talent but also in finding the best solutions,
then the award should not be restricted to young persons aged 30 or
below.
Having said that I would have to say
that Mr Smith's setting up a award for such a social and policy issue
is outstanding thinking and should be highly commended.
Australia will definitely be a better
place if more awards for solutions to important social and policy
issues, such as mitigation of floods and bush fire damages in
Australia, practical and optimal taxation and social welfare,
Indigenous education, health and economic participation, optimal
monetary and fiscal policies (i.e. why Australians have to pay so
high interest rates), why Australians have to pay so much higher
prices for virtually many things (i.e. the price differences between
here and that in the US)?
It would be nice to award practical
solutions and people who make outstanding contributions to practical
solutions to important social and policy issues.
Both the public sector (government) and
the private sector including private citizens should join such effort
to improve Australians' welfare and well beings.
The public services and bureaucrats
have their roles, but experience shows that many real constraints
(such as political, operational and organisational constraints) have
put a significant limit to their roles.
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