How on earth can Australia compete with A manufacturing powerhouse like China,
The problem with present Oz politics (and the US and Europe
I might add) is that the wrongest people imaginable are in
power at a somewhat critical time in history.
Ozland could have risen tremendously by taking the obvious
advantages that opened up to it in April 2008, and become a
extremely influential regional economic power with a trade
surplus that would've even been the envy of China on a GNP
basis. But of course that never happened, and a safe bet it
won't happen should the opportunity ever arise in the future,
if the locals continue to be influenced by idealogical left wing
crap instead of sheer hard-nosed no-nonsense pragmaticism.