Invest the money in overseas teachers & in a National Service scheme & in no time industry in Australia will pick up with an educated & committed workforce. We can't keep expecting good products/productivity with the present mentality. We all know what to call trying the same thing & expecting a different outcome.

Shorten suddenly sees his chance will arrive much sooner
YEBIGA,
Here's a look into the crystal ball-Shorten who ?

This whole issue is only reinforcing a few things.

Bill Shorten is inadequate.
Abbott has done the right thing with the motor industry.
Napthine is doing the right thing with SPC Ardmona, and O'Farrell is doing the right thing with the drought, as the states should.
As Hockey and Abbott grow the non mining economy, including agriculture and address the debt, the economy does't go into recession as the next mining boom kicks in as the world economy picks up and the Royal Commission and the corruption trials start to hog the headlines...well ... labor will be in opposition for years to come.

the ideology which is applied nowhere except in text books, Australia alone is to implement. Who needs automobiles or manufacturing when you can just be the world's biggest quarry. I suppose this passes as visionary. When the entire world is trying to move into high tech, Australia alone is reversing history and returning to agriculture and the Stone Age.

I suppose this is what Hockey meant by calling it the end of the Age of Enlightenment?

Before we become too exulted by this ideological break through, we should perhaps at least take a moment to consider that once the automobile industry and the associated component manufacturers leave it is near impossible they will ever return. All the highly trained technical engineers in the this industry will have to look for work overseas. Similarly many engineering courses in the country can no longer lead to any career here.

This is a significant intellectual loss to Australia and entirely at odds with being a clever country. Attaching our entire economy to old low value industries should give us all cause to pause

YEBIGA,
Intellectuals are largely ineffectuals = a huge drain on our purse. It's work & production that creates the wealth many of you suckle on with the left corner of the mouth whilst condemning it with the right corner. The worker will always out-do the intellectual in usefulness, it just doesn't sound that sexy.