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PhD student Maxim makes $18 an hour to research children’s cancer – it’s barely above Australia’s poverty line (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well duh there’s no profit in curing children’s cancer.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    We used to be a fucking country, man.

    The world has Wifi because of the blue-sky research done at the CSIRO. This resource extraction colony is run by short-sighted deadshits.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The world has Wifi because of the blue-sky research done at the CSIRO.

    Ehh, they like to claim that, but they weren't actually involved in the development of wifi, they were working on another networking radio tech that never went anywhere.

    They do hold a bunch of patents and like to sue for royalties over them though.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    In many ways - that's the point! They had the funding to develop things which would then become the building blocks for other technologies. Blue sky research is research done without a commercial outcome - but enables future projects with immediate application.

    It's the only way we progress.

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