Benbradley, what a load of old cobblers that is!
China's growth has slowed from ~7.6% in 2013 to ~7% pa today [ie not much at all really!].
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp-growth-annual
http://www.google.com.au/publicdata...tp_kd_zg&idim=country:CHN:IND:JPN&hl=en&dl=en
But companies including BHP and RIO have swamped minerals markets with excess supply in what some allege is cartel-like behaviour, apparently aimed at making smaller operations uneconomic [just ask Twiggy Forrest what he thinks about it]. And to think that Tony Abbott even let them off the ETS / Carbon Tax & the MRRT; costing taxpayers countless $Billions!
As if that's not enough though, Abbott launched his wars against the renewable energy sector, against the manufacturing sector, against the science and research sector and even against the public education sector [pre-Abbott, our third largest export earner]. Oour economy has copped body blow upon body blow from Abbott's Government.
Well what a surprise that at the time sharemarkets overseas rocketed to record new highs as economic recovery strengthened overseas, that the only developed economy on Earth to get the staggers is governed by Tony Abbott.
Even people overseas know we're in trouble due to Abbott's shambolic, ideologically paranoid government [read at own risk]:
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