Australian Greens don't believe Silicon Valley can save the world
If there's one thing that Australia's two main political parties agree on, it's that replicating Silicon Valley on local shores is a Very Good Thing. The governing Liberal/National coalition and opposition Labor party are both advocating more spending on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching and back tax tweaks to replicate American arrangements felt to foster startups. If we do these things, we're told, a few weeks from now a new generation of coding-capable kids will come up with lots of great ideas that put a rocket under Australia's economy. Casey penned the piece containing that quote in response to the surfacing of the old Tweet below. And she follows up with the "overthrow of capitalism".
May-12-2016, 04:45:28 GMT
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