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Here in Australia we just didn't have the population to have a large global influence. We had a population of around 7.5 million in 1945, compared to the US tha
by someNameIG 1y ago
Here in Australia we just didn't have the population to have a large global influence. We had a population of around 7.5 million in 1945, compared to the US that had about 150,000 million.
- femto 1y agoWe also emulated the British centralised model, with the Weapons Research Establishment. Like the British, Australia struggled to get research out of these centralised labs and into products: computing (CISRAC, 5th computer), satellites (WREsat, 7th nation in space), ...