Slashdot Mirror
An Australian Space Agency At Last?
Dante_J writes "In the Australian Federal budget presented last night, as well as big national infrastructure spending, an amount of $48.6 million over four years was allocated for an 'Australian Space Science Program.' Normally a space program is managed by a space agency.
Does this now mean that Australia will follow the recommendations of the Senate Space Science report and give up its rather inadequate title of the only top-20 GDP nation not to have one? With nations like Vietnam, Bangladesh and Bulgaria forming or maintaining space agencies, this government infrastructure is obviously not limited to G-20 nations. Discussions to combine Australian and New Zealand airspace have been undertaken; should that translate to aerospace too, and both nations form an ANZAC space agency together?"
I wonder if this is the start of experimenting with Sheep in space?
Giving IE users a taste of their own medicine since 2005 - http://pods.-is-a-geek.net/
If there were one nation on Earth gullible enough to see a staged moon landing on TV and buy it hook-line-and-sinker, it would be Australia, bless their hearts.
Maybe that's why they don't have a "space program", the "astronauts" thought it was just too easy.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Uhm...
You know that the Labour party creates massive deficits? The current labour government plans a deficit until 2016! You currently have the biggest budget deficit in your history.
I would rather prefer a slightly bungled privatisation than that. Privatisation of state owned/sponsored telecom companies have been through history a major problem (e.g. South Africa's Telkom, split up of AT&T, etc...)
Nowhere did I intend to troll. I thought I made a valid point - in no country was telecom privatisation handled correctly. My country is only now recovering from a disastrous privatisation of the national telecom company. In many ways this is more a problem of the privatisation than of how it was done â" for a long time there will not be sufficient competition.
But I guess the mindless bashing of the former Australian president is more warranted? WTF? The current government is creating humongous deficits until 2016. Every time I see such a deficit I almost get a heart attack â" but I guess privatising a public company is much worse than creating shitloads of debt in the public's name.