The Qtrly - 6 monthly -What will it say ???, page-15

Sure VBeebles we do earn USD on education to foreign students----and this will continue, but if we discard mining , how will we replace USD earned by that sector. Education will not increase very much at all---certainly not billions extra, which we will need if we give up exporting rocks.
We are very lucky, as a small population in the fastest growing part of the world, which has rocks all the others want.
And we are world best in digging them up.
This is our only reason for our first world status---destroy it, and we will sink along with our $