Pay attention Australian taxpayers! Although your taxes went to fund the gear that formed the basis of this legal exercise (whether or not it had any merit - Texans love a little shakedown every now and again), prepare to see the spoils funnelled away to private fiefdoms set up as "spin-offs".

Oh, and the gear you'll be buying in future will include a bit of cash that goes towards the patent licence fee extracted (or extorted - you decide!) by your publicly funded organisation, to be subsequently collected by those "spin-offs".

Hope you all like paying for stuff over and over again, just like those folks in Sherwood Forest!

the liberals aren't in government anymore.

Lets see how much the govt slashes funding to CSIRO