Oh goody a whole post almost directed at me & from a Mod too.............gee & here I thought I was gunna get banned or have my post deleted...........again !
I own very little Aussie made, my Ford is prolly the main Aussie owned item I have & even that has foreign content.
I don't go out of my way to buy Aussie purely due two things. I get paid at a level that only allows the purchase of cheaper products generally & few products are Aussie made.
I no longer fly a 'yanky doodle dandy' machine but did so as there was no choice for the task at hand (PC12 too me wasn't a suitable safe choice nor was it for AAV thank God ! but lets not go there hey?)
Simply put Aussie made products are mostly too expensive. We want the good lifestyle, the good wages with union protection but we won't pay for it (Aussie stuff) at the checkout as we couldn't sustain that lifestyle. Catch 22 situation!
In a nut shell Globalization means one thing.........choice!
Wmk2