Exactly! And the forecast tourists are staying away in droves!

All we've seen thus far is a plan to have a plan?

What that plan should include is getting industry moving again by the state developing and supplying cheap publically owned and supplied energy, like say thorium reactors connected to micro grids supplying the world's cheapest industrial electricity!

[Foreigners/private players are just likely to keep the present margins and the extra profits!]

And assist the entrepreneurs among us with fair dinkum tax reform and simplification, coupled to the rollout of fibre to the enterprise to allow them to source markets and economies of scale all over the globe!

I mean it's all well and good to make stuff for the local market but what we need is to market our manufactured products around the world where the sales of economy to make the price structure more than competitive!

And from where I sit that sounds like a can do plan?
Rhrosty.

Rhosty,
Thoruum reactors would not produce the world's cheapest electricity. They don't even have a clear cost advantage over conventional nuclear power.

But hypothetically if they did, it wouild not attract any tourists to the Blue Mountains.

without simplifying a complex issue,
the last time the aussie dollar was less than 80 cents US, we had 2 million more tourists visit Australia than 2 years ago.

At 70 to 80 cents for our dollar, this will mean Japanese/Korean/USA etc tourist will choose Australia to holiday rather than somewhere else.

Not to mention our clean air/food/water, our stable government, no civil wars, safe airlines and strict quarantine and great weather and scenery means we are and will remain one of the best places to visit.

So, I take this "experts" blog with a pinch of salt