the government will not put the necessary resources into R&D because the payoff is well beyond the next election cycle, but Australian private enterprise has also been slack in this regard
too much focus on short term results, not enough on long term wealth creation
we have some great scientists in this country and a great research organisation in CSIRO we really should be kicking goals
if we don't other countries will, we can count our property market riches only to realise too late that we have become a backward nation
