Australia’s leftist government issues a new policy statement on space
The leftist Labor party that is presently running Australia’s government today issued a new policy statement on the nation’s space industry, focused on trying to encourage its growth.
You can read the statement here [pdf]. Though it is mostly filled with meaningless bureaucratic and leftist jargon, including an an “acknowledgement” of the primary land rights of the aborginal population (or as it calls them, “the many nations of First Peoples”), the statement has one item left to the very end that suggests this government recognizes its bureaucracy is slowing development.
After many pages of gobbly-gook that has little substance in reality, that last action item is the following:
Action: Advance regulation and international governance:
- Evolve domestic regulatory frameworks to support current and emerging
Australian space activities, ensuring safety, security and national interests
while enabling entrepreneurship and innovation.- Shape international governance by contributing to global rules and norms
for the safe and sustainable use of outer space.
It appears the Labor government recognizes the regulatory framework in Australia is slowing development, and is at least willing to say it wishes to fix the issue. At the same time, it also vows its continuing allegiance to international globalist regulations and the need to make space “safe and sustainable.”
These two goals are generally opposed to each other. How Labor will square this circle is quite unclear, but at least it appears it is aware of the regulatory issues. Its ability to fix them however will I think be hampered by that party’s very “woke” focus. For example, the statement opens by endorsing ancient aboriginal religious beliefs, but never once recognizes the very basic western values of private property and law that built the country that presently exists.
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Oh, good grief! They’ve got “land acknowledgements” in Australia as well…..
Here in Canada, there’s hardly a public event or institution that doesn’t have them.
The whole point of these “acknowledgements” is to discredit Western Civilization and make the savage tribal culture of the past the dominant culture of today. It is vile beyond belief, but it is what the intellectuals of the west have decided must be done.
What on earth do the aborigines have to do with space . Oh, I KNOW, , they want a payout (bribe) for the use of their ‘sacred lands’ for launch facilities
Evolve domestic regulatory frameworks to support current and emerging
Australian space activities, ensuring safety, security and national interests
while enabling entrepreneurship and innovation.
Shape international governance by contributing to global rules and norms
for the safe and sustainable use of outer space.
Bob, they are not contradictory. Item 1 is doubtlessly within the benevolent hand of government guiding the whole effort. As I stated before, ALL Labour parties are socialist. It’s in their DNA. They may SAY they encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, but watch what happens to private enterprise or anyone who tries to make an honest buck in space outside of government or government sanctioned monopolies.
I agree completely. I just wanted to note that the Australian Labor party is at least making positive noises about reducing regulation. I don’t expect them to do it, however.
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