Yeah, I am more talking about putting up some real money towards these missions. We are a rich first world country, would love to see the American space budget

Yeah, I am more talking about putting up some real money towards these missions. We are a rich first world country, would love to see the American space budget cuts made up for more internationally, especially on the science based robotic missions and space telescopes. I would imagine that a lot of the communications stuff has a lot to do with geography and would probably happen without Australian government funding.