Made in Aus - poll., page-19

sorry - I assumed that you were championing a return to the past when you wrote this

''we used to manufacture much of our needed white goods, food, furniture, cars and so much more..... Keating's globalism opened us up to competition and so some businesses complained about the difficulty matching the imported goods prices so Howard told them to "go offshore and take advantage of the lower wages in Asia" .... so off they all went.

a bloomin' disgrace. instead of helping businesses to adapt to the global market Howard was happy to see them leave Aus.

seems to me that the plan now afoot is more repairing of the failures of Liberal lack of interest in economics or the market.''

I've no resistance to seeding new and high tech industries

refining and added value to resources ----------- well, I await confirmation that I'm wrong and in precisely what areas before I have an opinion

as almost all resource companies are foreign owned ---------- I would come from a different perspective IF those resource companies were Ozzie owned - including with government having a large part of the ownership - like many nations have

that would be different - but, it's also only one factor.