From: "Rohan McLeod" <rhn@jeack.com.au>
Peter Ross wrote:
"Rohan McLeod" <rhn@jeack.com.au>
but smaller nations than Australia seem to manage. ........................snip Food for thought:
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/new-zealand-edges-ahead-of-australi... --- "NZ's digital economy contributed $2 billion in exports last year and as four New Zealand start-ups prepare to list on the NZ stock exchange - Gentrack, Serko, Orion Health, Vista Entertainment - twice as many as last year, Australian entrepreneurs are wondering exactly what they put in the water."
But it's so hard to believe; here in Australia we have ideological malice constrained by shear stupidity; operating according to pure time tested economic fatalism ! Just can't be right...........:-)
Here you have Rob Oakeshott who had some first-hand experience. He has a slightly different tack - it's not just stupidity.. http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/topic/politics/2014/08/09/rob-oakeshott-h... "The rules are simple: fight the bastards, bankroll the other side of politics, cause them damage until they learn to ignore treasury and finance advice and start listening instead to that grubby leveller in politics – money. Whether it’s tax or carbon or gaming, this is the policy inertia of Australia today. Money is beating our long-term standard of living to death. It has sent many necessary policy reforms to the doghouse, and it keeps many others on the short chain. Our key decisions for the future of Australia are now being outsourced at a level never before seen. Parliamentary democracy is going through its own sort of privatisation. Bigger dollars come into the party coffers at exactly the same time as less and less of the necessary work gets done. We are trapping ourselves." ------------------------ Regards Peter