I’m more interested in the new space agency the Govt is looking at setting up. Now that manufacturing is dead and mining being as unpredictable as it is, there needs to be bold vision like this to kick start the economy. You may not explicitly agree with the proposal but after 4 years in power it’s the first actual nation building attempt the conservatives have had.
I've been an advocate for an Australian space agency for over 20 years.
(as long as it doesn't have a covert military agenda)
We had a crack at launching satellites back in the late 60's....Australia was also a world leader in solar technology back in the 70's.
Since then we have basically gone nowhere....thanks to self serving incompetent politicians beholden to self serving powerful corporate lobby groups.
Why our politicians continue to set us up as lap-dogs to the British and American Empires is beyond me.
But, it's not about disconnecting from these two countries, and having an 'isolationist mindset' it's about growing up and taking some real initiative and investing in our country with some vision.
Our political elites have no f-ucking idea how to make sustainable and sensible use of Australia's natural resources, which includes our human resources.
We've had 15 years of the biggest resources boom in our history and what do we have to show for it?
A mother load of DEBT, of which, more than half of this debt has gone into property price speculation.
Our tech entrepreneurs and tech industry either fails into obscurity, is bought out, or it moves off shore.
Atlassian, for example, an Australian software company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sydney with revenue of over $600 million, didn't even bother to list on the ASX, (cos it would be a waste of time) they are listed on the NASDAQ, so as an Australian to buy shares in the company you need an international trading account.
Our stock market has gone sideways for years and the only thing that pushed it higher in the past and is propping it up at the moment is our bloated financials industry and the big miners.
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