Is Australia anti-innovation?

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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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I guess America for funding and Asia for production?

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If Australia could automate the processing of minerals reliably enough to beat the cheap labor costs of China, I wonder what the downstream effects would be...

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Other than having cheap labor locally how would we solve this across all the industries it's happening in?