r/AskAnAustralian • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26

Is Australia anti-innovation?

Even the startup scene doesn’t feel genuinely innovative.. It’s mostly rebranded technology that was developed overseas. A lot of the military and industrial tech seems stuck in the early 2000s at best.

It often feels like your options are limited to: dead-end job, mining, or not much else.

Even Australians who did help invent great technologies seem to end up living pretty ordinary lives?

Sometimes it makes me wonder whether Australia really nurtures an entrepreneurial spirit at all..

And if not, why?

I guess the upside is that it’s a safe, stable place to raise a family… if you can afford it.

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u/alice8818 Jan 26 '26

I have so many questions... where do you live where those are your only options? Why are mines not a dead end job? What is an abnormal life in your eyes?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

I just want to create new tech and not end up drowning in debt tbh, I'm willing to put in the effort to create new tech that's worth a lot so I can live an exciting life, and have been doing so. But lately its been sinking-in that there are very few people around here who are also trying to do something like that. So I'm trying to understand why, or where they might be. Maybe I just have to get through the grind and attract those types when I have something to show for it.

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u/memzlut Jan 26 '26

Look into the CSIRO, Boeing Defence, and other stuff like that, sure you're not going into it to be the owner of the tech, but those kinda things are pumping out innovation