The recently elected Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, is holding a brainstorming session this weekend to come up with future policy ideas.
He has invited 1,000 of the country's "best and brightest" minds (which naturally includes Cate Blanchett) to the two-day summit.
Rudd has expressed the hope that it will "shake some new ideas loose from the tree".
The suggestions so far are a mixture of the serious and the bizzare. They include:
- Send more people up to Darwin to take advantage of the higher rainfall there
- A euthanasia kit for the frail
- Dump the Queen as head of state
- A ban on the sale of alcohol to the country's indigenous population
- Raise the smoking age to 40
- Free crayfish meals for everyone
- Jukeboxes for nursing homes
We'd like to know how you would make Australia better? Throw out all the poms is not an acceptable answer.
