From the "lucky country" in the 1960s to the "clever country' two decades later...perhaps it's time the Australia of the new millennium was rightly recognised as the innovation nation. FOR A COUNTRY with such a small population, inventions and ideas from Australia exert a massive influence. Worldwide, untold numbers of people navigate their way around using Google Maps. Air travel has been improved by the black box flight recorder, now in every commercial aircraft. The bionic ear is bringing the miracle of sound to the profoundly deaf. The first cervical cancer vaccines have already protected many thousands of women from a frequently fatal diease. And the potential of the technology that drives wi-fi networks has only just begun to be tapped.
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