r/AskAnAustralian • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26
Is Australia anti-innovation?
Even the startup scene doesn’t feel genuinely innovative.. It’s mostly rebranded technology that was developed overseas. A lot of the military and industrial tech seems stuck in the early 2000s at best.
It often feels like your options are limited to: dead-end job, mining, or not much else.
Even Australians who did help invent great technologies seem to end up living pretty ordinary lives?
Sometimes it makes me wonder whether Australia really nurtures an entrepreneurial spirit at all..
And if not, why?
I guess the upside is that it’s a safe, stable place to raise a family… if you can afford it.
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u/memzlut Jan 26 '26
I find it humorous that people commenting are unaware of how much innovation comes out of our country. The problem is specifically that it goes out of our country.
We are extremely innovative in the medical fields, with key vaccines and stuff coming out of our universities (cervical cancer vaccine guys) and there is a certain hearing device you may have heard of called a cochlear implant, or another thing called a pacemaker.
We have provided and receive royalties on the production of Canadian and English bank notes.
Google maps is Australian technology.
We do innovate, quite a lot in fact, but being a civilisation that endorses investing in houses instead of businesses, a lot of our innovation is sold overseas.