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Message 1704773 - Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 1:27:40 UTC
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How infantile childishly stupid can Australian politics descend to?

(As seen by my opinion as ever...)


Spew up on this latest political stupidity for the blind no-cares politics:


Australia threatens to pull buckets of astronomy funding

A political impasse is putting at risk Australia's participation in the ginormous Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope*, along with a slew of other major research science projects...

... the National Research Alliance says the funding brinkmanship is putting at risk 1,700 research positions, and threatening the shut-down of long-running projects...

... Apart from the researchers directly under the wing of NCRIS projects, the open letter says the facilities funded by NCRIS feed into the work of 35,000 local and international researchers.

The letter notes that since facilities can't be mothballed for any significant period, “the government will be effectively decommissioning high-cost public infrastructure that in many cases has years if not decades of productive working life remaining.”

Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt told local radio the political impasse is “childish”...




Politics Australian style all set to smash their own education and science to spite themselves?...

Rather than trashing their future, the politicians there really need to get an education!

Only in Australia?!
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Message 1704822 - Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 5:20:38 UTC - in response to Message 1704773.  

Only in Australia?!

Why yes, they let Japan's whale fleet operate!
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Message 1704839 - Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 6:35:40 UTC - in response to Message 1704822.  
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Only in Australia?!

Why yes, they let Japan's whale fleet operate!

Maybe they are not getting enough kickbacks from the whaling fleet to fund such scientific endevers?
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Message 1704957 - Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 16:30:25 UTC - in response to Message 1704839.  

Only in Australia?!

Why yes, they let Japan's whale fleet operate!

Maybe they are not getting enough kickbacks from the whaling fleet to fund such scientific endevers?

Or maybe Sea Shepherd forced them to spend all the science money on whales?
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Message 1705356 - Posted: 26 Jul 2015, 20:07:27 UTC

That's what you get when you have a Ten Pound Pom running the country, and very poorly at that. :-(

Who is affectionately known to us Aussies as, Tony "the Mad" Abbott (or "Mad Monk" for short), for many reasons (very few of them good). ;-)

Thankfully we go back to the polls next year. :-)

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