Australia has an impressive list of innovation or 'actual firsts', but has a bad habit of literally giving them away to other countries because they aren't reco

Australia has an impressive list of innovation or 'actual firsts', but has a bad habit of literally giving them away to other countries because they aren't recognised as innovation (or aren't properly capitalised and developed) in Australia itself until those inventions return from overseas. Old saying: "No prophet is accepted in his own country" WiFi for Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi Full-Length Feature Films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_films Aviation Black Box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder Rotary Clothes-Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist Motorised Lawn Mowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victa Powered Heavier than Air Flight: http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/hargrave.html http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/hargrave.html Sarich Orbital Engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarich_orbital_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarich_orbital_engine