Trying not to be too political but both sides have effectivly destroyed the country by sticking their bibs in without any thought of the consequences.
One side will support anything that will replace unionised workers for no other reason that to starve the other side of it's funds base.
So if that means 2,000,000 out of work due to the closure of the auto industry well that is great news.
The other side actively prevents industry modernising and kept industry running at unprofitable industrial revolution manning levels.
Tomogo Aluminium is the perfect example, forbidden to make anything that was profitable and also to to employ 400 more workers than needed then bought off with free electricity.
Thus management refuses to spend money on modernising with high productivity machinery.
Both of them like sucking in money from overseas because that makes for a "beautiful set of numbers" to quote from Costello, today ,however in the long term the overseas money takes back all it spent 100 fold.
The idiot simple way to look at it is buying an investment property ( which they all have by the bucket load ) .
Do you do it to improve the life of the tenants ? street ? suburb? or do you do it to suck as much as you can for your investment then flog it off at a profit whenever you need some quick cash.
Neither of them will support any Australian technology till it has been sold to a foreign country so no one locally makes a cent except the original inventor if they have not been bankrupted first or in may cases killed themselves because they ended up destroying the lives of all who supported them.
Memtech is the perfect example, the inventors travelled the country trying to sell their 21st century sewerage treatment plants but not 1 single federal governement would commit to install one. They went to every state , every local council that had a sewerage plant till eventually they were bankrupt and sold the technology to a German company and now we have 76 of them working and another 200 to be built, by an Amercian company who pays royalties back to the Germans so no Aussies get any benefit other than cleaner water.
Merv robbed Victa to build the Air Cruiser & Tourer and modified them to meet defence department requirements .
How many did we buy ?
92, but only after Merv was broke and sold the project off to Hamilton Hangers in NZ at a loss who by the way also jacked up the price.
Against advice the Howard government plonked the new airport at Badggerys Creek where it will be a disaster in place of Goulburn where it should have gone for no other reason than to prop up the escallation of Sydney real estate prices which having peaked after the destructive "housing grants" was starting to decline and too many over leveraged landlords ( liberal party donators ? ) might have needed to sell off a couple of properties at insuficient profits to support their lifestyle.
So in place of a new airport at Goulburn which would have made the Sydney -Goulburn-Canberra light rail viable and allowed Goulburn to take overflow from Canberra Airport, it is being built in the Sydney basin where there is already insufficient infrastructure to support the current population let alone the 250,000 extra houses slated for the west, and it will be closed due to fog about 20 days a year.
Then they make a big song and danace about sham "decentralisation" by moving a couple of dozen public servants from Sydney CBD to Parramatta CBD.
