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Labor's view of Australia - a nation of shopkeepers?

By Arthur Thomas - posted Tuesday, 21 April 2009


Sustainability

In what?

Outside the resource-reliant chain, just who are these major employers of Australia's manufacturing industry with the untapped potential to provide these "jobs, jobs, jobs"?

Community?

Which means?

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What the Rudd Trio fails to sing about, or even comprehend, is balance and reality.

Credibility and the Australian electorate

Labor has yet to learn the Australian elector is not a mushroom (kept in the dark and fed b---s--t).

Crisis management

Australia is facing an economic crisis and needs a realistic crisis management plan and the Labor Musical Trio's reliance on consumer spending to revitalise the economy is out there with the fairies.

Jobs

So, where are these jobs, outside the retail trade?

As always, hospitality is experiencing yet another downturn. There is of course the yet to be costed high-speed broadband project that will provide "thousands of new jobs" over a yet to be defined period in the yet to be defined future.

So again, what industries will create these jobs?

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Our once vibrant manufacturing sector, decimated from outsourcing and low priced imports, is no condition to respond to the Trio's challenge.

With demand for resources in decline, support industries for this sector are experiencing increasing layoffs, not creating new jobs.

So where will the new jobs be found?

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Arthur Thomas is retired. He has extensive experience in the old Soviet, the new Russia, China, Central Asia and South East Asia.

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