I heard an interesting podcast that basically spells out mostly why our country is heading down the gurgler , it pretty much is in line with my thoughts generally and probably a lot of what you guys think too i suspect .
One of the interesting facts mentioned in podcast was that our manufacturing in the 60s was at 22 % of the the countries gdp and it was now at 6 % .......and that imo is a disgraceful statistic , and testament to the direction our country has been steered down by the pack of dipsticks (all of them over the decades ) in Canberra .
The podcast via the ABC radio on the ockams razor section you can listen too on your pc by hitting the download button and it will stream instantly , or if you have the abc app on your phone (mine is android , but iphone may do it too i guess ) .
it goes roughly ten minutes and is well worth a listen imo.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...ountry/7869268