Australia short end of a very shitty stick

For awhile now I have been wondering why so many good inventions go overseas. Well the reason is tied to the government and Australia's amateurish financial sector.

The Australian government has the long held belief that buying items from overseas is far better, we buy ships planes, bombs everything.

In WW2 we had an arms industry, we had airplanes now what do we have?

We are a vassal state of the American Empire and our only purpose is to consume.

So the government is responsible, the current administration obviously received some form of kickback from the states and Howard still had to suck dick (case in point we are in Iraq and have no business being there).

Our finance is amateurish except for the monster sharks of Macquarie who believe that because our Government is stupid they can charge us for our own roads. If you are mining you can get all the money you need, doing something interesting well those only happen overseas anyway why would an Australian invest in that?

If Australia wants to become more than a source of raw materials then there has to be some serous investment by mid level financial institutions.

Ill tell you why, because it has other impacts. Investing in creative endeavors be them scientific or artistic diversifies our culture.

My final word to those morons in Canberra why did we give the Americans our plasma engine? It allows you to make efficient spacecraft do you think we could have kept it or heaven forbid licensed it to the highest bidder?