Well I say ENOUGH. We don't need your "learning" and "research" and "knowledge". We in Australia can make our way in the world perfectly well without it. After all, we have all sorts of wonderful minerals and things buried in the ground that our workforce, without any namby-pamby "science", is uniquely qualified amongst all competitors to collect - in that our workforce is here. You can't set up a "mining centre" in Mumbai where cheaper workers can dig out the ore via teleconferencing, can you? No? Then don't worry, we can't lose those jobs overseas. And, according to my limited understanding of scientific principles (even at school I knew how unimportant it was), something buried in the ground is almost certainly infinite, so those resources will never run out.
We don't need to be a "clever country" - why can't we be the stupid country and be proud of it? Why can't we aim to be the country that allocates the least of its resources to developing new technologies through which we can improve our quality of life and from which we can as a nation profit? That seems to me, as a stupid person myself, to be an extremely good idea.
Anyway, how do we know the CSIRO are actually working on positive things? Do you understand what they've been doing recently, average person in the street? No. Well then, let me suggest to you that they're doing evil things and working on ways to wipe us all out. Not so disturbed by the government cutting funding now, are you?
CSIRO scientist plotting something evil
It always fills me with sadness when I see young, talented maths and science-minded people ending up at government food research labs working for the betterment of mankind, instead of devoting that analytical ability to becoming economists and bankers.
What a waste. Thank God our new Prime Minister is doing his best to put a stop to it.
