Australia is booming on mining and all else including NSW is going to ruin. NSW is the only state lacking long term mining resources. Further, its citizens are too well-off to work hard to make wealth for we politicians and our corporate buddies.

A message from Macquarie St to all NSW citizens earning less than $500k pa:

You MUST LOWER your STANDARDS to INCREASE OUR CHANCES.

To that end we will be immigrating 2 million Indians to Western Sydney over the remainder of our Government and by hell we'll have rickshaws solving transport problems, people cutting down trees to solve the energy crisis and cardiac surgery & childbirths at the local Deli before you can blink

When salaries are competing at $2 per hour and WE political and corporate leaders are making $100Million + bonuses then you will know NSW and Sydney are MAJOR worldwide centres of excellence.

Humbly yours,

Barry O'Farrell

Prime Minister, NSW Inc.

...Quite frankly, "Marko Beljac" describes in here a reflection of Mannheim’s analysis of modern society in his work published in 1935 as “Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction”. Part of that description was the negatives of laissez-faire capitalism and the use made of “strikes of capital”.

Q)- # Will neoliberal economic reform actually ever end? #

A)- Only when the banks go broke; but the majority will be long gone from starvation, and will not be the witness!