so who in australia still has a job?

2013 maybe the Chinese year of the snake but its shaping up to be Australians year of losing their jobs.

We are less than 2 months into 2013 and everyday, there is another company going into liquidation, cutting staff due to reduce demand or offshoring jobs to cheap labour countries. Some recent examples include:

* Wettenhall transport: Adminstrators appointened, 200 jobs threatened.
* ANZ: 70 jobs from their wealth creation division being outsoruced to India. Over 500 jobs gone in 2012.
* QBE: 700 jobs planned to be outsourced to the Phillipines.
* Westpac: 134 jobs being outsourced to India.
* Mothers Care retail: in Administration, some staff have already lost their jobs, more job loses expected.
* Freedom Furniture: 30 jobs lost in their furniture making division after it decided that all furniture it sells should be imported.
* Rosella Sauces: 100+ jobs lost / at risk after Rosella went to Administration.
* AAPT: looking at slashing hundreds of jobs due to low margins and a falling customer base.
* Telstra: 650 jobs going from it Sensis business.
* Origin Energy: will cut an additional 350 jobs, in addition to 500 already flagged, during 2013 as it faces falling profits.
* Iluka resoruces: 200 workers will be sacked from Iluka, a miner of mineral sands used in high-tech metals and paint pigments, after weak market conditions forced a 33 per cent slide in full year profit.
* BlueScope Steel: 170 workers going from its Western Port Steel mill, this ontop of almost 1,000 people who lost their jons in 2012.
* Boral: 700 jobs going, due to weak demand and import pressures.
* RIO: More job losses expected in 2013.
* BHP: More job losses expected in 2013.

I am sure there are many more.

What will Australia be like in 20 years?? Ford, Toyota and Holden will most likely be gone.

The situation is an embarrasement and a disgrace.

It seems only the politicans have any real job / benefit security and they are largely resposnible for making this mess!