Australia’s future in many ways will be determined by its ability to innovate and invent. Innovate being taking what we already know and doing more or different with it and inventing being to bring about something we have not know before.

Both of these are great and we need to continue our long history of giving the world the Hills hoists, Cochlear implants, airplane black boxes, wine casks, electronic pacemakers and so much more and this morning Belinda King of ABC Radio Tasmania and I chatted about where innovation and invention have come from and where it may be headed.

Listen now and then let me know what you think are Australia’s greatest inventions and innovations and what you think may be ahead.