Why did a Northern Kentucky city official spend time Down Under?
I was involved in the International City Management Exchange Program. I sent in an application and submitted a work objective last year and was fortunate enough to be selected to travel to Salisbury, in the Adelaide region of southern Australia. I spent most of the time with a colleague who is a local government official there. He will be coming to Fort Thomas for three weeks in September as the other half of the exchange program. Q: What did you learn about Australia? A: … Australia is a very different country from the U.S. It has a population of about 18 million people, but over 90 percent of the people live in 1 percent of the area, mostly along the coast. There are vast areas of nothing but desert, bush and mountains with almost no water. Q: What are the similarities and differences in Australia’s government? A: Well, the people I dealt with kept emphasizing that Australians don’t pay taxes, they pay rates. I had a hard time telling one from the other, however…. Perhaps the maj
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