womble wrote:Zappa wrote:bigrich wrote:[due to poor management , and idiotic green policy, manufacturing has been dying a slow death for years, mining and agriculture are propping this country up . so the regional "red neck" vote matters, and they feel trivialised by inner city "educated progressives" , when it's the regions generating the wealth for this country
Diminished Industrialization is a western phenomena due mainly to high labor costs and upward commodity prices. Couple that with competing overseas imports and global trade, we'll hardly see any industry starting up again. Carbon emissions and greener policies are play but a small part in our industrial producing capacity and the governments set targets, revise them and kick the can down the road. Libs are more aggressive than Labor but they both do it.
Agriculture is our main export and helps keeping basic items in check but as for mining and mineral exports, we're hanging off the coat tails of China.
If China reduces is resource needs of finds them elsewhere we're screwed. If there's a 10% downturn in resource and energy demands in Asia, we're screwed.
Let's not forget we also export Professional services, IP , business services, technology and some pharma.
Education is also one of our major exports. And we depend on it to educate our own.
We have an absolute crapload of foreign students here.
And then you get all these mongs saying “Oh no look at all the immigrants.
Uni model is out dated. Most lectures can be on the Web. Students don't need to come here to sit in a room to listen a lecturer when they can do that in their own country via zoom.
My experience is the biggest cheaters were overseas students.
I've lectured at university and these days I'd throw half of them out.









