Steve Baxter

But what I see, the big thing I see in Australian commerce in general is the fact that large Australian companies typically don't like buying from small Australian companies.

Yeah.

In the US, large US companies will buy from any small company.

Why is that?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Is it for profit?

I've road tested this past lots of people who sort of agree.

We don't know how to test that analogy.

And then if we do test it and think that's it, how do we then change it?

We don't know how to do that either.

So this is a conversation I want to start having.

It's almost berating large companies to buy off small Australian companies easier.

In my other investment business, the non-military stuff, if...

Someone comes and pitches me and says, I want to sell to Rio or BHP or some other large Australian business.

I just click off and go, yeah, no, not with my money.

I know that will take too long.

They'll get these guys.

And if they do buy, it'll be just enough to keep them alive, like a Biafran diet, like a starvation diet, right?

And that's just bad.