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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?"
Well drag me to hell...what does an island nation, sitting well below the equator, need with a space program anyhow.
It's just a matter of time before they learn to appreciate being surrounded by large bodies of water.
I wonder if this is the start of experimenting with Sheep in space?
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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...)
Racist.
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.