The Australian Economy never ceases to amaze me. From middling Manufacturer to sandwiched between Uganda and Pakistan in terms of economic complexity in just 20 years.
What do you see on the horizon #AUStriches? Are we going to start adding value to our Iron Ore? Become a nuclear power and develop worldclass machinery to enrich our Uranium? Maybe develop a chemicals industry to rival Germany with all our natural gas? 
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I see more of the same.
To achieve any meaningful direction change we will need a bipartisan approach which seems like a pipe dream. We also need politicians with vision and are not so concerned with the next election cycle and woke bullshit.
We are sadly lacking in both fronts.
I agree that not a lot will change any time soon. Maybe some smaller industries will pop up but I don’t see anything significant on the horizon. And whenever we do have anything innovative here it is inevitably lost overseas.
And yeah I don’t really feel that we have had any sort of strong leaders with real vision in politics for many years.
Nah, will probably get more efficient at digging rocks out of the ground though.
And I guess we still have education and tourism, right?
I fear we will forever remain consumers of US IT services, including cloud, AI, quantum etc.
More of the same for the next 10 years probably… once hyper-bitcoinisation kicks-in though I’m hoping we’ll get a proper ‘great reset’ of the whole bullshit political system & finally see some innovation & forward thinking.
Fuck.. So we EXPORT Crude..But still have high prices at the pump!!
Fuel excise. Prices are high because Government want to sting you every time you open your wallet so you can never build wealth and become independent of their system.
Go look at the Teals bitching about LNG - Japan are buying our shit and re-exporting it because they have a fleet of tankers. We now have ZERO, I repeat, ZERO Australian flagged merchant ships.
If a real Covid hit tomorrow the country would grind to a halt in a week and be MadMax within a fortnight.
