How is important to Australian people and the manufacturing sector that we should buy Australian?

Or

It doesn’t really matter even though will cost jobs, livelihoods and personal pride.

Stuart Ulrich
Independent Candidate for Charlton

It is important to buy australian goods to keep capital in Australia, but if there is a chinese product that is $5 and the Australian one is $7, which one are people going to buy; just remember that for the $5 product theres still a profit event though they had to pay to ship the product, and pay customs fees.
The Australian company has 2 options produce the items cheaply and improove the quality, or go bankrupt. the reason the whitlam government got ride of most of the Tradiffs was to make Australian products more competitive.

I just buy whatever is cheapest. If the Australian product is of the same quality but more expensive, this is a reflection of the higher cost of labour or doing business in Australia. There is a labour shortage in Australia, which means there are more than enough things for Australians to do for which the market can support the high price of Australian labour (ie higher wages). We might as well get some dirt poor Asian who is struggling to feed his family to do the boring, nasty jobs and let Australians move on to the more lucrative jobs. Everyone benefits, and anyone who loses a job should not have too much difficulty finding a new one.

There are plumbers around who won't get out of bed for under $1000 a day. Anyone who complains that Australian jobs need protecting and the the poor people overseas can just go hungry is really jsut defending some kind of incompetence. Now is the time to expose our industries to full competition, not coddle them.

So one would have to say that since Kevin Rudd is the leader of the ALP that his policy on inductrial relations and Australian product if he has one is a sham,lier,hypocrocy,decietful.

So the ALP is not out to support workers,the manufacturing sector or families.

So one would also have to say that wages will be going down further so Australian Product can be competitive.

So anything that comes out off his mouth is nothing but crap.
Anyone want to by a Kevin07 T Shirt made overseas by low paid workers, supported by the ALP and unions.

Stuart Ulrich
Independent Candidate for Charlton.

Tapp,

Your foaming at the mouth doesn't reflect well on independant candidates.

Free diver was only pointing out the very well established benefits of trade. High Australian labour costs at a time of near full employment suggest, as FD says, that Australians have sufficient to do that "contracting out" some of the "low end" manufacturing work is sensible.

An Australian company producing widgets for $7 here, that can be produced in China and imported to Australia for $5, really should be looking to put their capital into higher skilled industries where Australia's competitive advantages lie.

Think about it. Where is the sense in utilising Australia's much better educated workforce to manufacture T-shirts, even for Kevin and the ALP?

If you truly aspire to represent this great country as a member of Parliament, please make it a point to study a little economic theory. There's enough ignorance in Parliament already.

I am not fumming at the mouth of posters.

I am fumming at the fact this moron is saying believe in me but dont buy australian, i dont so why should you.

I dont believe in workers, or the manufacturing sector and the unions have said nothing and their are many out their who are still gullible that he is there for you.

You best tell those in the clothing business.
As a matter of fact I found a 100% owned, made and produced supplier today and at good price so kevin rudd only did it to say to us stuff australian product buy overseas.

I understand freediver and our other poster but kevin rudd is standing up for workers.

Hello

and being a independent candidate at least i will say it and speak the truth on the matter.
will you.
So what we can do is say labor isnt concerned about wether you make it here and by the way your jobs no longer exist.