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No it's not being unable to compete, it's being undercut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
Being from S.A you should understand given what's happening to the steel industry.
Basically China dumping products below cost to buy the market and bankrupt any competition. Once all local companies are gone they are free to charge what they want.
Changed it slightly.Quote:
Originally Posted by frantic
Australia is buggered....I don't think we can recover.
Look at the number of mines closing down......
We are too regulated, overpaid, way too developed, lazy, want more, give little.....I cannot see how it can be sustained.
The PM is in a fleet BMW limo nowadays. The Army is into 6x6 Mercedes Benz. The subs they want are from overseas. Next we'll be importing roads and bridges.
Queensland has one of the best railway equipment manufacturers in the country.
Walkers, in Maryborough.
And QR has just ordered 47 six car electric sets, from India:twisted:
We are about to start manufacturing on a small scale. We look like doing it in Australia because we can't get the level of quality we need in China.
Free trade is a myth.Quote:
Originally Posted by loanrangie
It ill never be free trade until workers in source countries have the same conditions and social security as workers here have and I'm not advocating we have a race for the bottom where Australian workers get the same pay and conditions as workers in the lowest paid countries get.
Oh by the way, incase you didn't know foreign workers are doing all of our coastal freight now. We no longer have an Australian Merchant Navy to speak of. One Company has even tried to extend this into a Sydney Harbour operation.
It isn't just our jobs that are threatened It's our sovereignty as a Nation.
When you say we just have to be more competitive you put our collective foot a little closer to the starting line for the race to the bottom.
Our 'sovereignty as a nation' has only existed for 100 years or so. It is a figment of the majority's imagination, a contrivance overlaid on hundreds of stolen nations right across the continent.
Land Rovers aren't Australian made.
It's a quaint idea that the world respects borders. Refugees welcome I say.
Humanity before lifestyle.
We've certainly gone significantly backwards in recent years on Australian manufacturing. I could get political about that, but I won't, as that belongs in the Current Affairs section.