obviously we could start by not buying useless blades for windfarms and unreliable solar panels. We could then produce some base load power at reasonable cost instead of being scammed by numerous layers of rent seekers. Problem is we have a totally dumbed down education system that hides these simple truths from kids.

Runner, do you have any ideas beyond producing cheap energy through coal.

do we revitalise manufacturing, do we crush the minimum wage, do we keep giving tax cut to the wealthy, do we smash welfare.

go ahead, and speak your mind.

same goes for lefties.

i am interested, because my research of such a question is indeed very difficult

Chris,

What are you researching? Do you have a thesis? What discipline are you from?

Perfectly good solar panels are made in Adelaide.

i never start with a thesis.

i have a subject of interest, and then research the different arguments put forwards on the issue.

I would say that Australia's economic future is indeed an extremely difficult task.

but i look forward to writing it up.

all i can do is offer a opinion.

Okay Indy, you want a prime example of the benefits of Chinese aid in Fiji. Outside of the Kings and Queens Hwy, the main road circling around the coast of Viti Levu, the internal roads are mostly gravel. The roads leading into the Highlands are particularly bad, with access to villages through 4WD or sometimes trucks, and in the wet, washouts and landslides are common and the roads becomes impassable.
This leads to economic hardship, produce can't be taken to market, people can't travel freely, the old bus services had to terminate well down as they could never negotiate the treacherous highland roads. At one time Commonwealth aid was being used in the road smoothing program, with locals doing the work, with a private NZ contractor supervising. After the coup Fiji lost its Commonwealth aid, the vital road projects stopped. China stepped in, the road projects resumed, but neither the Chinese or the locals were all that great at road maintenance work, and during the wet much of the work failed. Those Chinese are pragmatic, they hired that NZ contractor to take over once again, but this time being paid with Chinese money. The Fijians are happy, their roads are getting fixed, and do they care if a few Chinese battle ships anchor in Fiji with their guns pointed at Australia and New Zealand, I don't think so, too concerned with more mundane issues, like getting a decent road.

BTW, I was having a chat with a mate in Fiji, Savvy, I mentioned you and your aid, and I asked if he had got a new hoe. "What? What would I do with that?",... I don't know? Hit some of those occasional obnoxious Australian tourists over the head with it." Not that long ago Savvy told me about one particular obnoxious Aussie, while he was working the bar, shook up a bottle of beer and deliberately squirted it all over him. The drunk and his mates though it was a great joke.