https://theconversation.com/
The national security issue that will hit Australia’s economy
"Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, last year observed Australia is the only country in the OECD without a national plan for science, technology or innovation. The country’s digital competitiveness has been sliding downwards. According to the annual edition of the Network Readiness Index published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Australia slipped from a ranking of 9th in 2004 to 18th in 2013 and 2014."Actually Chubb is wrong here, as Australia already has an overarching "national plan for science, technology or innovation" - it is called the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012/2015 and it produces a simple and direct outcome, which is to shut everything genuinely innovative down, and make Australia so toxic to innovation, that talent will depart overseas, and overseas private sector will treat the country as a pariah. And if anybody fails to abide by this new "national plan for science, technology or innovation", they can be thrown in jail for 10 years to convince them of the folly of their ways.
DTCA 2012 and DTCB 2015 set to damage Australia’s capabilities in science and technology – Bayesians Without Borders - Bayesian Intelligence
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