At successive elections political parties have managed to sidetrack the big economic issues and have insread hoodwinked the electorate with silly divisive policies and blatant pork-barreling while the media were more interested in picking a winner than illuminating the big economic issues confronting Australia in the next decade.
We badly need a new Political Party with a far reaching economic plans for Australia that clearly outlines how/when/who can industrialise Australia and take us into the 21st C by adding value to our resources, increasing our GDP & shareing it with all Aussies and building up a warchest of trade surpluses over time so that we're less reliant on foreign capital. We own the shop but we allow others to skim the profit!
Once in government, this party should sack the entire Dept of Industry & the Dept of Natural Resources and rebuild these two vital departments with accomplished experts that can mould the necessary strategies to acomplish the Governments Plans and lead/adapt & succeed in the face of an ever changing world. Germany & Japan did it from war ravaged countries so why cant we do it with everything an emerging industrialising country could ask for!
We are only a population of 25 Million with enormous natural wealth and surely the benefit of being Aussie shold be all about equity in these amazing properties.Instead the recent Corvid-19 has been a salient reminder that over 6 million Aussies and their dependants (say 2.5 to 1) are merely a few pay packets away from the bread line. This is a National tragedy , IMO, and unless the average Aussie is virtually brain dead, he/she will want a better deal going forward given the realisation that the current system falls well short of a Fair Go".
