darryle; Australia opts for obsolete technology because of our politicians and our corporations- simples!
We buy US fighter jets that are not fit for purpose for multiple times what we could buy others, we buy old generation filthy diesel vehicles about to banned from European roads, we shied away from buying a decent internet in preference for absolute crap that will have to be replaced soon after it's completed, we buy trains that are marginally faster but less reliable than tortoises and we even buy computer software that was invented during the 1980s.
