Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordinary Australians.

Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to speak the lingua franca of services. This is immensely important to customers; just as HTML enabled the explosion of the Web, SOA is doing the same for business applications.

China allowed Australia to diversify away from Japan as it hit its slump.

The Australian model - which was a fair degree of liberalization but not the full Chicago school treatment - did better.

Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our success. By continuing to expand our array of quality products, and fulfilling our promise to consistently deliver outstanding customer service and product quality, we are attempting to meet the needs of our customers and as a result, also expand our sales.

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.