+x+x+x+x+x+xThe LNP only way of making money - selling off your resources and assets to foreign companies and countries will make sure it will never end.
I’t would be great if we had more production here, but we’ve had 15 years of a government that was anti progressive industries and ideas.
thank the unions of the past pricing us out of the factory labour rates ridiculously and our stoopid Govs of the past subsidising trying to keep it here.
Agree with you wholeheartedly selling off to offshore mobs is wrong, that should have been stopped 25yrs ago might I add and more.
Yeah yeah blame the unions. When a person in China will work for $10 a day it's a bit hard to compete. Would you work for $2 an hour? I doubt it.
Don't forget it's the free market that decides what and where to produce something.
China is not a free market. The market is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. They control the wages of their workers. They control the value of their currency. They control the terms under which foreign business do business there. They abuse their title of emerging economy.
I'm talking of manufacturers here that shipped production off shore because it was cheaper.
And "offshore" means China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, none of which are free market economies.
The global economy is not a free market economy.
Understood but when our manufacturers go off shore they are doing it based on free market principles here.
What the politics are where it's getting made are irrelevant. We can't compete so business takes their business off shore.
It's like people blowing up at China buying our farmland. Who's selling it to them? That's right, the farmers.