Aussie $ collapse, page-39

Yeh they rely on a shovel because its easy, bad long term policy but easy. We then in turn rely on countries such as china, because of the proportioned amount of trade with one country to keep our standard of living high which to my mind is also bad policy. Why don't we have policies so that we don't have to rely on any other country? don't we have everything we need in our land to stand on our own two feet?