: A day of confirmation

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After a long wait, today we got back an answer from Australia’s Ausindustry, the peak government body set up to help develop and grow business in this country.

We expected no better, only because I know for fact that government bodies here have a habit of handing out cash to con men, charlatans, minorities and projects that never had the chance to go anywhere. Maybe they like a tall tale? Who knows. This has been a bone of contention with me for many years and today is the day that confirms what I have always thought, after I read through the list of applications that received wads of cash to do (for many) what they should be able to do without holding out their hands. Fuck knows we have.

We are very proud to do what we do in Australia. The people we work with to do it too are very proud. What’s more all know we are in the minority, in a country that seems determined to think that it can get by selling either dirt or its limited services to the world; it has yet to figure out that it can’t. I also know that we (as in the collective we) do what we do in spite of the so called government, not with its aid.

A set back? No. I honestly never expected anything when we put in the application, because I (quite rightly it seems) already predicted the types of applications they’d be sucked in by (and they were). In some ways it’s only more fuel on the fire. Pissed off? Sure.

 

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