and everyone has a big mouth and is full of ideas until the **** hits their fan.
I will say it again: management spin about competing globally means you go down to the lowest common denominator. That ultimately means health care, pensions everything. We or even the western industrialised world cannot compete with China and we shouldn't try.
Australian wages and product pricing takes into account the social infrastructure in place in Australia as prices do in China, i.e. there ain't no social infrastructure.
Qantas today, NAB tomorrow. Think about it.