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Great post smurf, absolutely what we need to do, maintaining our living standards by selling everything in the house isn't sustainable.Strongly agreed.
That said, it is also very clear that Australia cannot sensibly remain so closely tied to either China, the US or any other single country. This crisis has made that reality very clear.
My expectation is that Australia's economy will ultimately emerge stronger because of this. We'll be forced to diversify both geographically and in terms of activity and neither is a bad thing. Our business model of simply selling what we've got to whoever walks in the door, which isn't far removed from prostitution as a concept, has reached its end point.
Short term the downside is mass unemployment, investors losing money and massive disruption.
Long term here's the springboard to put Australians back to work in actual higher value industries and to fix the problems we've been sweeping under the rug in the great race to the bottom. Problems like hospital funding, the natural environment including issues of pollution and emissions, house prices and so on are all ultimately products of the economic race to the bottom we've been engaged in.
If I was to try and fit our predicament to any previous historic example then once the virus is sorted I'd pick 1945. A war won and a focus on rebuilding our industries as the obvious path forward both practically and economically.
Just quietly, Trump polls look like he is gone. And thank God. I don't think I could listen to you lot drone on about it for another term.
Well if that is correct, it will be business as usual, send all the manufacturing to China and low wage Countries.Just quietly, Trump polls look like he is gone. And thank God. I don't think I could listen to you lot drone on about it for another term.
Polls don't seem to give any real guidance in recent years. I might be wrong but I didn't think he won on the polls last time. Last Aussie election polls were way off track. If polls are saying he is gone, well then I would get ready for another Trump Term.Just quietly, Trump polls look like he is gone. And thank God. I don't think I could listen to you lot drone on about it for another term.
Enter The Drago... errr, the dementia patientFair enough
Any chance you have come to the view he may not have been/be a good leader for the US and the world in general ?
Or is that a bridge too far..
He tried to hobble China, Russia and Iran, redirect manufacturing, protect borders. In my opinion he did more right then he did wrong.Fair enough
Any chance you have come to the view he may not have been/be a good leader for the US and the world in general ?
Or is that a bridge too far..
7 points behind I think. And an economy on its knees. If I didn't know better I'd say the democrats were behind the coronavirus.Polls don't seem to give any real guidance in recent years. I might be wrong but I didn't think he won on the polls last time. Last Aussie election polls were way off track. If polls are saying he is gone, well then I would get ready for another Trump Term.
Did it settle the issue for you?
Did it settle the issue for you?
That is true and it is obviously the official line being taken, so it is pointless debating whether it was made in a Lab or natural circumstances.Well, it was a scientific paper, unlike the opinions of some amateurs.
Fake news. Nice try.
This kind of bureaucracy is the sort of thing I've zero time for.These breweries aren't washing their hands of the corona virus.
A lot of data on this site:Anyone have a chart on where we stand on deaths to infected compared to other nations?
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