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Ed Husic’s sacking shows innovation always loses in Canberra’s Game of Thrones

Short-term political expediency has always over-ridden strategic innovation and industry policy and action in Australia and meritocracy is no match for Labor factional politics.

Sandy PlunkettFounder of Innovation Clearinghouse
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In Australian politics, being the chief advocate for innovation and technology policy has always been thankless and often hazardous, as the sacked federal minister, Ed Husic, was the latest to discover after he was turfed out of his cabinet post on Friday in a factional Labor war.

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Sandy Plunkett is founder of Innovation Clearinghouse and a thought leader in entrepreneurship, technology and innovation systems
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