Yeah yeah, but we go nowhere fast, just resting on alleged historical laurels!
What we need as never before, and or at long last, is a vision!
A vision that looks well beyond the next election cycle, and finally puts Australia and Australians first!
In this the so called Asian century, we need to open up our vast arid inland, to major economic development!
To that end, we need to crack on with rapid rail, linked to roll on roll off, rapid turnaround ferries; and given our largest markets are Asian, operating out of, our northernmost port.
And we need to finally, start to invest in our own people and their better ideas.
And if that means picking winners, then we just need to just crack on and just do that.
And if the current political class just aren't up to/for it, then we need to change to those, who are at least capable of just that much!
And all of this needs to be preceded by; and is completely reliant on huge tax revision, monumental reform and quite massive tax/trade practice simplification!
Simply put, only the most dense numskulls, believe you can outsource growth!
Yes there's some growth in foreign outsourcing, only, just not here!
Understand yet?
God give me strength, patience and time!
Rhrosty.

Hi Rhrosty

I had a word to God and he reckoned he can give you strength if you organise Macedonia's first Thorium power reactor. This is to replace Macedonia's pre-Alexander donkey.

God reckons a Thorium reactor would be cheap, easy and quick and I'm sure you agree.

Pete

Pete, you really do need to read the book, thorium, cheaper than coal!
Thorium reactors are small enough to be mass produced; then trucked on site as wide loads.
We have plenty of thorium and enough to power the world for 700 years?
In fact much more than our reserves of uranium, and to date, have treated this resource as an (still recoverable) industrial waste, in the process of garnering rare earth minerals; or titanium, mined from mineral sands!
And once you have stoked these thorium reactors up, you may not need to use very much more thorium over the operational lifetime, and even then, just a few hundred kilograms of thorium.
And all while coal-fired power burns millions of annual tons, of an increasing expensive fuel!
Just compare the fuel bill Pete! I know which I'd rather pay!
You? Who would have guessed?
But then they say, a fool and his money are soon parted?
To date, successful thorium prototypes, haven't been much bigger than 50 MW!
Which means they aren't suitable for the great white elephant of a national grid; but comparatively small micro grids, where they can and do, provide power for less than half the cost of coal fired power!
And nowhere is it written we can't have more than fifty or sixty?
In fact, a hundred would match any current 5,000 MW power station; and for half the cost of that centralized model!
They are neither new nor untried, but rather fifties technology abandoned, because there was no weapons spin-off!
You'll have a nice day now, y'hear.
Rhrosty.

Hi Rhrosty

I'll have a look at http://youtu.be/ayIyiVua8cY the youtube based on the book "Thorium Energy Cheaper than Coal" by Robert Hargraves.

Regards

Pete

Fantastic article Mr Andreevski, well said!