Dear Peter Chewb,
I spend a lot of time in China, Europe and have just returned from the USA and Canada and also an unwanted stop in Fiji because QF26 broke down. I am sure what you say is true but until you have worked for the australian government and been made redundant because you are over 40 or one of the party faithfuls want's your job you don't know what australia is really like. May I suggest you ask the steel workers from Wollongong or a car worker from an australian car manufacturing company how secure their jobs were/are.
Many manufacturing jobs and companies are wound up and shut down at the whim of the australian government because one of their university based advises says it is not efficent enough to keep going so the company moves overseas and so do our jobs. Workers in the airline industry are now being treated like the rest of us.
