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The shameful neglect of Australia's legacy of space facilities : Comments
By Brendan O'Reilly, published 23/7/2019While Australia played its part in 1969, we need reminding of how Australia (especially the ACT) squandered its heritage from NASA.
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Where the focus invariably descends to a contest to win the next election and the endless one-up-manship and betrayal that emphasises and underlines just that.
Therefore, makes the future and our prospects for it, very much of an irrelevancy, when weighed against personal power and the party's prospects, 3 years hence!
So, we have gone from the third wealthiest nation on earth and a creditor one at that to somewhere south of a largely ineffectual one, somewhere south of number thirty, and one mired in record foreign and domestic debt and overcrowded gridlocked cities plus an infrastructure deficit, at least thirty years long. This gives the illusion of being better off!?
And us little more than a toothless tiger that's virtually defenceless, as this party or the other porkbarrels their way to yet another winning of power, as the masses are placated with the morphia of the masses. sport.
If you told any visitor of this past our great big and shining mineral booms, then pointed to how well we'd increased homelessness and unmet need! The ever-widening gap between the haves and the have nots! They'd look at us as if the inmates were running the asylum! And not be too far wrong!
Tell them we tested nuclear weapons, launched rockets and they'd say your joking! I mean, we could have lead the world in alternative peaceful purpose, nuclear energy and with the least fatalities of any power generation provision and potentially the lowest costing and safest.
Denied along with with our lost in space, space legacy by the morons who valued personal power and the business as usual party politics above all else, except maybe servitude to powerful vested interests? By their fruits (outcomes/results) ye shall know them!
Alan B.