[thorn bird]

Awww Jeez K,

Your Whimsy Chrissy carol raises a smile, if it wasn't so serious.

Just watching Chris Kenny on Sky tonight and they were discussing ScoMo's news grab about Australia getting into the Space race and he was prepared to throw money, OUR MONEY into investigating the prospect.
All the usual waffle about how best placed we are Blah Blah Blah, innovation, High Tech jobs Blah Blah Blah, investment $$$ to be made, Blah Blah Blah.

The cynical side of me can't help but consider, we already have the shreds of an industry left that already provides innovation, the best of which we've already shipped offshore, there is investment, although the Chinese are the only ones investing. There are high Tech jobs that could be expanded, thrive and generate lots and lots of $$$ but unfortunately its being killed off by YOUR out of control bureaucrats. That industry is called AVIATION, its there, it exists already its not a fantasy. Unfortunately for Australia its shackled by our own stupidity, dying under the weight of Incompetence, ineptitude, arrogance and self interest, by a Bureaucracy you, the Political class, let loose with no checks, no balances, free to drive what could have been a high tech, innovative, job creating industry into the ground.

So I ponder, we already have a kindred industry its called aviation, but your bureaucracy is killing it, let loose on your proposed Space industry what would they do to it?

New Zealand sets the pace, they freed their aviation industry by promulgating clear and concise regulation modelled on the US FAR's and it is thriving, their Space industry has stolen the march on Australia, does that not tell ScoMo Anything?

Great on the rhetoric Sco Mo, but pretty poor on the action.