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So Holy Thursday banter:  workforce participation data shoots the luck country out of the sky; NSW is a basketcase — but strong on retail; and Minister for the internets Stephen Conroy rocks out the big ones with Kevin’s new national broadband networked intergalactic Oz extravaganza (suck it up, Telstra).