Re:It needs a clue first (Score 1)

Did you read the actual pdf report from the government on this?

1) lots of name dropping, lots of this senator is pushing to get this stuff looked at.
2) it was initially requested iirc in June to be completed no later than October and then pushed back to November (ie we don't really care about this and are dragging our feet)
3) it is liberally interspersed with pop culture references and song lyrics (I shit you not) to keep the attention of the readers (idiot australian politicians) and to impress upon them the important of space, technology and science in general.

These three points alone are enough to summarise the situation quite well, but the basic takeaway point for this entire debacle is that Australia is a shithole.

I live here, I know this.

We waste tons of money on shit like the australian institute of sport, provide inordinate amounts of media attention to useless shit, and basically ignore our entire sci/tech sector, about a year ago I heard one snippet from a US media source on a tech created in an australian labratory to drastically increase the production of energy producing refined uranium using lasers instead of the current contemporary gas centrifuge technology. I have hardly heard about it at all since, maybe five or six times, and never once has it even been mentioned in australian media.

This country exists to churn out petty bullshit about sport and celebrity and feel good about our half assed left wing touchy feely hug the environment protect the children ain't life in australia grand bullshit, expatriate me as soon as possible to Switzerland or someplace sensible.

Oh, I forgot, no such place exists.