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By virtue of the fact that Atlassian chose not to list in Australia they have sent a message to government. Turnbull appears to be the kind of prime minister who could make Australia more tech-friendly, so fingers crossed.

The best option for a rising tech company in Australia remains, unfortunately, to purchase outright a flailing listed mining company and invert, a la 1999. This is where the "scammy" feel of listed tech companies comes from.

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Begging a vulture capitalist who is owned by the far right of his party for help seems a bit silly.

Nevertheless, on this particular point, there is more reason to be optimistic about Turnbull than the last 3 prime ministers.

Malcom Turnbull is the guy who, for purely political purposes, messed up the planned upgrade of our absolutely terrible internet infrastructure. Now instead of having fibre, we have a bunch of crappy technologies that supposedly will also cost more and take longer to roll out.

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