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>Also, we have a fully functional NBN now, to suggest the changes to the original rollout have somehow ruined meaningful potential growth and innovation is completely fanciful.
No, not by reference to the initial pitch - which is wall we're really discussing. We just have various internet connection methods, which is very much not the same thing.
>we have a very high tax burden
No, we don't.
>an absolute quagmire of pointless red tape that make getting anything done a nightmare in this country
We don't have this either. We do have a lot of red tape, mind, but I'd dispute that it's "pointless." The issue of any regulation is that it's normally introduced to address a safety measure, or wrongdoing, for a particular instance. Twenty years later, with most people complying with the regulation, it's natural for those who don't remember why it was introduced to say "Why do we need this? Nobody does this thing anyway!"
But if you remove it, sooner or later someone **will** do the thing which caused it to be introduced in the first place.
It's a cognitive fallacy about regulations which have existed for 'living memory.' It's rather like people saying "unions don't do anything" when - in reality - they gave us weekends, maternity pay, sick pay, leave, the 8 hour day... I could go on... but all those things are now baked in, so 'living memory' makes people think employers were always just generously gifting them.
>Anyone who has ever tried to start a business in this country can attest to the fact that it’s nearly impossible
No, it isn't. This is a literal nonsense. People start businesses every day.
>some of the highest taxes in the world
Sure, the top bracket is higher than some countries in the world. It's lower than other countries in the world. We're in the top fifty taxing countries. But assuming a median Australian wage of around $70-90k, that person is probably paying approximately the same as they would in most of the first world. We aren't, in any way, an outlier - so I mostly just fail to see why this matters.

It’s not crap, listen to chalmers and Albo and they way they speak, they have a hard on for taxing people who’ve dared have some success.
Also, we have a fully functional NBN now, to suggest the changes to the original rollout have somehow ruined meaningful potential growth and innovation is completely fanciful.
All those government programs you refer to pale in comparison to getting the basic settings right and we have a very high tax burden and an absolute quagmire of pointless red tape that make getting anything done a nightmare in this country. As a business owner I see this day in day out. And I’m not anti regulation, I just see that 75% of the rules we have in place don’t actually protect consumers or achieve what they were meant to do. But we never repeal regs that work we just add more layers to the mess and make getting anything done impossible.
Anyone who has ever tried to start a business in this country can attest to the fact that it’s nearly impossible and we wonder why innovation is lacking? And then for the few who succeed they get hit with some of the highest taxes in the world.
These views aren’t well received but it’s no surprise given the proportion of people in the country who are the recipients of government funded jobs and programs.

>do you really think we’d be way further ahead in innovation and entrepreneurial growth if we’d had majority labor governments instead of liberal?
Yes; I do. Or, even, if we'd had Turnbull in power for a lot longer (the only decent LNP leader of the last quarter century, imo).
Why do I say that? I can't predict alternate futures, and the ALP is far from a perfect party.
What I believe is:
1. the NBN was an ALP policy with sound foundations that the LNP effectively argued against on the basis of 'technology is expensive and new' - the ALP's pitch was incredibly forward thinking;
2. Scotty tossed Malcolm Turnbull's agreement for French submarines in the trash;
3. Tony Abbott trashed the Australian Interactive Games Fund;
4. commitment to free trade agreements and deregulation weakened Australia's capacity to compete in visual media (television and film), while they also opposed the 'Streaming Requirement Bill' which would have forced streamers to hold Australian content on their services.
>The current government is doubling the tax on innovation and risk taking. They are the living embodiment of tall poppy syndrome and anti-aspirational spirit.
No, it isn't. It isn't doubling a tax on 'innovation and risk taking', not least because such a tax doesn't exist. The rest of what you wrote is equal nonsense. The *Innovative Business CGT Concession* was introduced for exactly that reason.
Your final paragraph is just nonsense.

NBN, OHI, and UHS super bullish. Rotation from tech to value finally happening