On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps a change of government could improve things.
We have had a change of government (and note: we have been talking federally on this thread all the time). The new government stopped a lot of the existing R&D spend to re-evaluate the situation and consider new ways of investment into Australian R&D. The review has been undertaken publicly with an ability for anybody in the country to submit their point of view and suggestions for improvement. The submissions to the review are public and can be seen at http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx . If you and David have so many issues with the way the last and the current government are/have been managing R&D investment in Australia, I am amazed that you did not make a submission to this review and provide constructive input such that it may be improved. More generally speaking: I have recently discovered a tendency in Australia that I am starting to really hate. We are very quick at cricising the government and any sort of institutional work that is being done. But when the opportunity comes to make constructive input, all that is being heard is more criticism and bashing and finger pointing and saying how much brighter and greener it is in other people's gardens. It is simply not true that things are so much better elsewhere - we have a very solid industry here and some solid R&D work is going on. We have a lack in taking the R&D work in ICT (and yes: it is mostly a problem of this industry) into production and making the most of it for Australia. Rather than continuing to be negative about it and blame everyone else for not getting it right, maybe we should analyse and actually find out why this is the case. I think that we should give this government and this review a chance to get it right and I think we should contribute constructively to getting it right, instead of already bashing an activity that hasn't even started yet. I you're one of those people who throw up their arms in the air and claim defeat before even having tried to make a constructive change, I don't want to hear from you. (This is not a reply to Marghanita, but rather towards the way in which this thread has been received both on the SLUG and the LA mailing lists). > ...and for good measure one I drafted in 1998. > Submission on Ministerial Council Statement - Towards an Australian Strategy > for the Information Economy > <http://www.ramin.com.au/marg/acssub.html> This sounds like constructive input and I will have a look. Thanks a lot for that pointer. Best Regards, Silvia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
