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Old 26-09-2017, 10:28 AM
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Per chance I bumped into the Chair of the "Space Industry Innovation Council" while attending the PM's Science Prize awards night at Parliament House a few years ago.

It was like the Hospital with no patients from "Yes Minister".

These possums have been busy drafting legislation for Australia's Space industry for a while...I believe their last budget was some $80 million of taxpayer funded dollars.

As for their launch schedule...well...the ones they are supposed to oversee...there were around half a dozen or so in the decade they have been about. Most were balloons I believe. Poor buggers must have been working 24/7 with that sort of high pressure and cutting edge launch schedule.

That said, they have not been sitting idle: we have lots of legislation now to cover any wannabe Buck Rodgers daring to go to orbit from Aussie turf, see:
https://industry.gov.au/industry/Ind...activites.aspx

So now we are going from a Space Council to a fully fledged Space Agency!

Oh Pleeease....really??

Rob Sitch and the Utopia team could have such a field day......

Last edited by Peter Ward; 26-09-2017 at 10:31 AM. Reason: typo
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