help needed to save our manufacturing.

so NSW has done it again?

they also ordered $20,000,000 worth of railway lines from overseas.

No the article states it was the private firm LendLease that organised contracts with thw steel supplier.
Though i suppose that the government could have written australian steel into the contract with LendLease

That article is also from 2014...

Cheers

Dan

Thanks Disco.
Interesting about the "private supplier".
Pickles.

It's a bit of a coup out. If there was a stipulation that the Steel had to be sourced locally, the contractor would have had to do just that.

Pathetic isn't it.

Treasurer Scott Morrison puts preliminary block on the sale of Ausgrid to overseas investors - 9news.com.au


Finally they have realised that our interests in certain cases must come before the $$$ in their pockets. How long until they wake up about other sectors that our neighbours and competitors have gone out of their way to protect, buy and grow in their own interest at our expense!

You know what's funny, a Certain Fury Mutual Expression Unity;) group ran an ad campaign stating the same thing as Morrison ,but where called racists by Morrisons , member of the same choir ,state equivalent!:o
Any clearer and it would no longer be mud but a breach of forum rules.

And another $2.3 billion to be sent overseas with not a cent spent here.
Another mass of jobs down the toilet.
NSW inter-city train fleet to be built overseas - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Disgusted.

A very short-sighted decision. It appears to ignore the many benefits of building the trains here. This kind of narrow-minded assessment is undermining our economy.

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According to news reports, the successful bid was 25% cheaper. If the government had accepted the higher bid, they would have been criticised for pork barrelling.

And there would have been more than half a billion less spent on hospitals, schools, roads, and other capital works - that because of they are fixed do necessarily mean local jobs. And, in fact, it is likely that a larger proportion will end up in worker's pockets, since manufacturing these trains locally would probably involve buying a lot of overseas manufactured machinery - the fact that there would be no certain ongoing work for this is likely to be why the higher tender, with the capital cost being fully (less resale estimate) being accounted for in the tender; the Korean bid almost certainly uses existing facilities.

No decision would have kept everyone happy!

John