dex100% correct.The "corner store" was dead long before Howard...

dex

100% correct.

The "corner store" was dead long before Howard got in.

Australians want to but everything as cheaply as they can get it.

But want to earn as much as they can.

All perfectly understandable and normal.

But with free trade and globalisation, something has to give.

Look at Holden. Hundred of millions of government assistance, but they will not and cannot last.

Wages too high, ecomomy of scale too small, it just doesn't add up.