Sorry to say it but unless you are into houses or holes, Australia’s no entrepreneur’s paradise, aviation or otherwise.
This nation is so heavily overweight in resi-backed mortgages and mining that a lid is kept on any breakout development of other industries. Government knows this, in fact they drive it. Develop the regions with industry and you seriously risk an immediate fragmentation of the voter base and the power base. Develop regions that can independently trade with each other and sustain themselves and you weaken electoral control. Australia’s ‘time’ passed 20-30 years ago for industry or houses.
A tiny, fledgling LCC start-up has no power at all to influence an economic evolution. We import skilled labour and choose not to home-grow our local expertise. We just love the money today, tomorrow never comes. Ask yourself why most inland regional cities barely grow their populations. And if you believe it’s a water thing, sorry it’s not, rice and cotton have boomed in the last 20 years in areas never ever thought possible for these crops.
For mine, when you see a government genuinely implementing industry-growing policies that draw money away from at least the housing sector and drive it into industry it’s time to launch a new airline. Nations that export-grade manufacture and don’t base their prosperity on Ponzi-immigration schemes stand some chance of future whereupon the even distribution of wealth substantiates the true meaning and intent of the term we hear every day - Commonwealth. The economy becomes balanced and empowered and capable of industrial development. Airline entrepreneurs are then in with a chance.