[LINK] Einstein's fridge an example for NICTA?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Stewart Fist wrote:
> Possibly an even more interesting 

than what?

example of government funded research was
> the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory (CSL), which did all that amazing research
> and product-development on non-commercial drug treatments like snake and
> funnel-web spider anti-venenes.
> 
> And in these days of potential biological terrorism and bird-flu, the CSL

one could suggest that these threats may only be a result of its 
privatisation....

whatever did happen to bird flu?

> would have become a key arm of Australia's defense capability, if it had
> remained in public ownership.
> 
> Unfortunately, in a rash of pure Thatcheristic privatisation, Paul Keating
> gave the whole establishment to a few of the organisation's top managers for
> a song.
> 
> 
> 


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