@polocross58 wrote:Quote: letter was ' in line with expectations'
What a pantomime when Indonesian ministers have laughingly admitted Indonesia's been spying on us for decades
Yes, I'd like to stop live exports. I'd like us to become self-sufficient. I'd like an Australian government -- ANY party -- to provide incentives to manufacturers prepared to produce our needs right here, in Australia. I'd like to see the millions of shipping containers filled to the brim with mass produced rubbish to be sent from our shores and forced to cart their stuff home
I'd like to see Australians being provided cheap gas and fuel, instead of putting Aussies in the work-house so we can provide ultra-cheap energy to Asia
I'd like to see full employment in Australia, which would happen if Aussies produced their own stuff, earned a wage from producing their own stuff and bought the stuff and to hell with rubbish imports that even the Salvos don't want
Currently, corporations are being provided incentives by Asians to set up slave-factories in Asia. Corporations are creaming in the profits while Aussies are being forced to submit to Centrelink for jobs which don't exist -- farmers are forced to sell the farm because Chemtrail droughts have sent them bankrupt -- allowing Saudis and Asians to buy our irreplaceable faming lands. And the government wastes my time with pretend concerns over posturing third-worlders who've been spying on us at the same time we've been providing them billions (WHY?) and training them on our lands in preparation for their future invasion
Cattle are raised and fattened for slaughter
So are we
that all sounds very attractive, but I wonder if it will also sound as attractive when you realise that if we stop all the imports of the cheap rubbish and try to produce all our consumer goods here we will not be able to afford them, unless we also reduce the wages to to the workers to the slave wages o/s. Not to mention that if we do not buy anything from o/s other countries will not take our exports.
The government has no option but allow foreign investment in farms because plainly there is nobody rich enough to afford those huge stations like Cubby. That was on market for years and years, and there were no local takers.
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As with many, I'm of an age to remember when Australia produced most of its own consumer goods. I also remember when there was genuinely full employment -- one to half a percent unemployed
Yes, things were more expensive. People had to save for what they needed. Items were such good quality, they lasted for years, decades in fact
Australia had an enviable quality of life, said to be at or near the top
And despite what you've written, the vast majority of homes had only one income earner -- the man, husband, father. He alone was able to support his family, educate his children in the days of little to no government subsidy -- with enough left over to save and to take the family on holiday at least once a year
Washing machines and ovens etc. were made in Australia, BY Australians, with good Aussie steel.. They lasted twice as long as planned obsolescence in most instances. Some are still running. Compare that with the imported rubbish of today which breaks down after 18 months if you're lucky
