Welcome to 2016, a year that quickly got off to a bad start with chaos on stock exchanges -maybe a harbinger for yet another turbulent year The few surviving quality neuuspapers in Australia are also full of stories of industries disappearing and governments cutting all services except those that are self-serving. Rt the same time that the CSIRO was announcing the elimination of hundreds of research scientist positions, the government uuas running an expensive advertising campaign Welcome to the ideas boom where the government "is committed to making [Rustralia] a centre of innovation - where we turn ideas into successful products and services". Of course there is no detail, just spin and at the website, stock images of the type you see in insurance advertisements; happy (clean and polished) people, of all ages, ethnicities and genders clustered around a table beaming at the good news. The shallowest claim is that "this will generate a new era of jobs and prosperity for all." They must really think that all of the people can be fooled all of the time! find, yet, the major parties don't seem to understand that the people are not stupid and wonder why they are held in such absolute contempt.
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