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Lolwut?

No way is Australia (or NZ) economically-freer than the USA or Germany, that's hilarious.

Methodology must be "what selected State Department employees feel about this country".

We not freer than anywhere in EA / SEA, except Myanmar and DPRK.

#Australia's "Economic Complexity Index" sits between Mali and Uganda, and our entrepreneurs and inventers flee to USA / Singapore / PRC as soon as they get funding to commercialise (a few eccentric holdouts notwithstanding, mostly in Defence or similar protected industries).