Australia should not have to take a back seat to anyone, we have some of the most innovative and capable people in the world in many fields.

Too often, the government puts Australian interests last, the number of inventions and developments that have been sent offshore for production is scandalous. Australian companies are usually overlooked when government departments buy car fleets and equipment, imagine getting coinage done offshore when we have our own mints and while we have unemployment in Australia

The hypocrisy of Australian politicians is disgraceful, to give lip service to becoming the clever country, while introducing secretive legislation that achieves the opposite, the 1979 NIEO inquiry was held under the secrecy of a "D" notice.