I recently stopped using a cheap $65 twin hotplate because it started to wear out after 5 years.
I saw an australian made one advertised as being commercial quality & I forked out $360 + $25 postage from melboune.
Needless to say when I got it there was no light to indicate that power was on & the top started sagging so the oil in the pan runs to one side on a perfectly level bench top.

I got so fed up with this "australian made commercial quality" product that I mothballed it & ended up with a Kogan Induction stove hotplate for $ 39 which is the best hotplate I have ever used.

Bleeding Aldis! beggars importing all that foreign food! beggars, they know shoppers will buy the cheap stuff
Radios we do not make them here, cost three times the price to buy if we did.
Yes Alf Garnett thinks it is our governments fault we buy on price
Business come about when proofit can be made.

//now days every second thing appears to be made in China or someplace else.//

Hang on, where is the other half of everything built once you've excluded China and not-China?

'Built in Antena'.
Is Mise,
You're lucky to get hold of that Tv because as far as I know Australia doesn't have a trade agreement yet with Antena. ;-)

They tried but the typo blocked it.

Is Mise,

I thought about how many things that I buy are made
in Australia. My fruit and vegies are. My meat and fish
are. My honey and cheese and dairy products are. My
cakes and bikkies are. So in all I guess it's our
food products as well as our services -
that are predominantly local.

As for having so many imports? That's the result of Australian
manufactured products having priced themselves out of the
market. And of course the government has a lot to do with
that by allowing cheap products into the country. For example
tourism - it's cheaper to go to Asia and the Pacific than to
have a holiday in Australia.