Wow, and with crap like this, Labor wonders why they didn't win the election.
Labor and the unions killed manufacturing in this country. Slowly strangling it to death whilst the Liberals looked on and laughed. Now they propose to waste billions of our money trying to revive it? And worse still, it must be some ridiculous fruit-loop variety that appeases the Greens?
Make no mistake, Australia should be making steel, copper, and their downstream products. That includes cars, computers, and even ships.
But the way we operate our workforce, economy, and financial system just isn't conducive.
The Chinese plan their economy 50 years ahead. Our pollies can't even plan 3 years till the next election. We glory in our "strong dollar" and feast on cheap imported crap and bali holidays, whilst China uses their resultant financial reserves to buy our country out from under us.
We insist that the meth-head drop-out sweeping the factory floor gets paid the same as a degree-qualified Engineer. Which is great, until neither of them have a job.
And even the lowest paid worker is taxed to buggery. When you buy an Australian product, ultimately most of the money is going to the government. And then we wonder why we can't compete.
As for EV's, well, ignoring all the usual foot-stamping tanties from the Laser-Disc brigade, its quite simple. We'll buy them when they make sense, and not a moment sooner.
And by that I mean when they
actually make sense, not when some keyboard-warrior claims they already do. When Trixibelle can open her Hyundai app and order up an e30 for the same price (features and functionality) as an i30, she'll do so. (And naturally progressive types and local councils will have already led the way.)
And yes, with our clear advantage in the production of steel, aluminium, copper, nickel, and lithium, Australia should be at the forefront of this technology. ROFL.
But we won't be, because the Labor party doesn't have the balls to make the necessary changes, and the Liberal party doesn't care.
