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by vacri 4407 days ago
My vote is for extracting us from agreements with the US that import their broken intellectual property/copyright laws. We don't collect dollars from their movie industry, so why prop them up?

Apart from that, make sure you get the message across that investing in startups now means a greater payoff later - the diametric opposite of Hockey in the article saying that businesses should only stand on the products they make [today]. There is no recognition of overcoming barriers to entry in Hockey's remark. You can even paint startups as individualistic underdogs (which Australia loves) against Hockey's vision of entrenched big players only.