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Originally Posted by Steffen
Before dumping on the government let's not forget that it was NASA who cut the funding in the first place. The Australian government is now expected to fund an unexpected and unbudgeted for expense. From the article:
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Steffen.
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There was a similar search run by Dr David Steele in the 1980's,which was canned by the Howard Government.
I sent a letter to the science minister of the day asking that the funding be restored and recieved a reply from a secretary saying that the minister was not concerned at being hit on the head by an asteroid while he slept.
So you can see both sides of politics are not clean when it comes to funding science.
The science budget was severely slashed under the previous coalition government.
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