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The sad reality of ‘Buy Queensland’ : Comments
By Graham Young, published 18/8/2017Queensland’s new beggar-my-neighbour state purchasing policy, apart from being a dog whistle to neo-protectionist One Nation voters, guarantees falling living standards for all of us.
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As for wages blow outs, it's not wages which at 16% of the cost of manufacture/production killing our economies. But rather, the prohibitive and rising cost of energy driving business into bankruptcy or offshore!
Now, you can blame many entities for this problem and point a finger at gormless pollies, who'd likely be challenged running a chook raffle, let alone a multibillion dollar economy.
Simply put, we can have coal fired power and a growing robust economy! Just not both simultaneously! Nor can the energy market be left in the hands of indolent unimaginative government nor price gouging, tax avoiding, profit repatriating foreign nationalists, with debt and dividend servicing part of a highly profitable business model! With we Aussies, the chained to the millstone, captive cash cow market tasked with ensuring that the government or foreign entity, snout deep in the trough, keeps chomping and slurping away in this (arrested development) gravy!
If we are to build a new power station let it be a walk away safe molten salt thorium reactor, like the 350 MW FUJI that Brazil is contemplating? With affordable power back in play and wages maintained at sensible levels by the cooperative capitalist model. We can lock horns with any economy anywhere!
After that, what is the most pressing is affordable water! And that relies on new space age innovation and deionization dialysis desalination. that #1/ provides 90% potable water, #2/ at quarter of the cost of traditional desal! Thereby providing cost effective irrigation wherever pipes can be laid!
The time for talk/endless prevarication and blind leading the blind or the captives of mindless ideological imperatives is over! Just get on and do it! J.B. Petersen would!
Alan B.