individual and ttbn,
The idea that Australia is uncompetitive is a myth. Before this crisis we were exporting more than we were importing.

how the world ends its reliance upon China is a huge question.

After all, very few nations have in the last 10 to 15 years.

Australia being competitive in wage terms? yes, but competing with China would require slave live wages. as if Aussies are going to accept that.Even the Americans do not.

Great question to write about though, as i have for over ten years.

Pity no one ever does anything about it though.

Aussies suffer from being a very luck country with a lot of stuff in ground.

Dear Alison Jane,

You say; “The left media, ( NYtimes, Guardian, 'heir-BC' et al) have been feed us raw Chai-na propaganda, they too need to be held accountable after this crisis is on the way out in 6 months time!”

Bloody hell the loony rightwing fringe is really hitting its straps today. Utterly ignore the deluge of rightwing media which is being consumed daily you seem deeply affronted by the few sources of balance left in the media landscape. Stop being such snowflakes.

Did you really want your president to be allowed to say when asked about a possible pandemic in the US; “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” Or to have PM Boris 'I shook hands with everybody' Johnson being permitted to downplay the virus for weeks to go unchallenged.

Just imagine what it would have been like if we only had compliant media of the type you are advocating. I will tell you what it would look like, China. Or in you boorish vernacular 'Chia-na'.

And this really is the rub isn't it. Hard rightwingers like yourself crave authoritarianism and this is the chance to have it more deeply imposed on our country.

that is right, some of the right winger commentators are an absolute joke.

TBH, i would rather listen to the ABC if i had to choose out of Sky and the ABC.

Both have extreme bias, and both are supported by generosity.

in fact, i would say that the ABC would do much better than Sky if it had to rely on private sponsors

Well argued, erudite and educated! We do need to reset our economy up for independent self-reliance and with cheaper than coal, affordable dispatchable energy whose name cannot be mentioned!

There are a lot of silly folk in this space, making silly, ill-informed statements about things they know SFA about!

And at the head of that vanguard are the antinuclear, anti-development monumentally stupid, green activists and their preferred utopian, unachievable, impractical goals!

The covid-19 virus may be the opportunity we've needed for so long now, to get out from under the Chinese undue influence and dependency!? And we should take with not a moment to lose or waste!

We can be completely independent and make all we need here for ourselves! And given we adopt a cooperative capitalism mindset and set to it, we can become a nation that exports to the world and as a creditor exporter! And whatever we export needs to be value-added or finished products/produce!

The only real impediment to that outcome are tinned eared political recalcitrants with their own self-serving agendas?

If there's another more logical and credible explanation, it's one that escapes me. Insanity perhaps?
Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

Doesn't take long for SteeleRedux to hector another poster rather than dealing with the subject. Mind you, the 'hectoree' does a fair bit of that herself.