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Australia’s New Space Priority
Australia has finally unveiled its bold plan for interstellar leadership.
Predictably, it involves no rockets, no spacecraft, and nothing that might actually leave Earth.
It does, however, involve a $528,491 grant so that the University of Newcastle can develop an “interstellar Indigenous policy.”
Because nothing says spacefaring civilisation like a government grant to make sure our hypothetical, imaginary space explorers don’t hurt anyone’s feelings while floating through the vacuum.
No this is NOT satire.
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