Thread: Nappies To Asia

While I dont disagree - we do have to be competitive and if we are not then we suffer.

Its a bit of a philosophical argument, do we want (on a macro scale) our people to be doing menial tasks (making nappies) or do we want them doing smarter stuff. The thorn in the argument is that the bloke that was making nappies last week is unlikely to be building code for the shiny widget this week.
It's difficult up-skill our labour resources at the same rate as the market demands it.

Regards,
Tote

Hmmm,
We used cloth nappies on both our kids.
We tried the disposable ones when traveling, but it was more hassle separating the biodegradables from the combustibles than it was worth.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Hmmm,
We used cloth nappies on both our kids.
We tried the disposable ones when traveling, but it was more hassle separating the biodegradables from the combustibles than it was worth.
Cheers

'combustibles'? - you burnt your nappies?

Originally Posted by Tote

Its a bit of a philosophical argument, do we want (on a macro scale) our people to be doing menial tasks (making nappies) or do we want them doing smarter stuff. The thorn in the argument is that the bloke that was making nappies last week is unlikely to be building code for the shiny widget this week.
It's difficult up-skill our labour resources at the same rate as the market demands it.

Regards,
Tote

We have around 800,000 unemployed and disability pensioners with capacity to work. Most are low skilled/unskilled/obsolete skilled. The only way to get them into the work force is via manufacturing. Only manufacturing can provide large numbers of jobs for the unskilled and low skilled. Tariffs are not needed. Tariffs only advantage the company owners who raise their prices to the limit the tariff will bear and become inefficient, stop research and innovation and don't update plant. What would be more effective is to tell importers that this is your import quota but you are allowed to sell as much as you wish. you just have to make it here, employ Australians, and leave some money behind in Oz. A good example would be motor vehicles. Only say 15% of an importers sales can be imported CBU or SUP. The other 85% must be made or assembled here imported as CKD.

Tote, menial tasks are better than no tasks.

Aussies are priced out of the manufacturing market......just have a look at all the news at the moment on the budget, everybody want more.

If huggies stay in Aus....price per nappy goes up....they no longer can compete, they close anyway.

Going back a few years we had a fair bit of industry and factory jobs in Geraldton that employed hundreds of people that have now since vanished.
They have either gone overseas or have moved to Perth unfortunately for various reasons.
One example is the crayfishing industry.
This used to have hundreds of boats fishing the coast between Dongara to Kalbarri and many of these fished the Abrolhos Islands that required 5 carrier boats to service them and 4 factories to process the crayfish and service the fishermen during the season that employed hundreds of people.
Now there is only a small number of much bigger boats fishing much larger licences and None of the crayfish are processed here as they are sent "Live" to Perth, This industry now only employs a much smaller workforce locally.
Pretty much the same thing has happened to the farming industry as most of the smaller farms have now been turned into large holdings that don't need as much labour to operate and many of them No longer run livestock (Too much bother) which in turn has killed the export meatworks here which also had a large workforce.

Its called "Progress" But unfortunately it hasn't been of any benefit to the local workforce unfortunately

Originally Posted by trout1105

Going back a few years we had a fair bit of industry and factory jobs in Geraldton that employed hundreds of people that have now since vanished.


Its called "Progress" But unfortunately it hasn't been of any benefit to the local workforce unfortunately

Sort of what i was trying to say , Substitute Australia for Geraldton and at the end of the day we as a country will end up the same , "where too from there " ?? . Bit like trying to understand " does space go on forever ", the more you think about it the more it does your head in . I supose in the end Globilisation will work or we go bust .