Seeing that it is apparently OK to talk about anything, anywhere, I would like to say how encouraging it is to see Industry Minister, Karen Andrews, announce that it is INEVITABLE that our supply chain will shift away from China, giving a boost to the reintroduction of Australian manufacturing.

Already, the China virus has the government going about the business of increasing our fuel reserves. It's a disgrace that we have to have a real crisis to force our incompetent government to do something that it should have always been doing.

High tech and pharmaceutical manufacturing is back on the to-do list at long, long last.

It would be nice to have, some day, politicians who are not too dumb or too lazy - as they are now - too plan ahead as they are paid to do, instead of waiting for a catastrophe from overseas to hit us. A leader who stands for something would also be nice; we haven't had one such since John Howard.

ttbn,

Even the Chinese know the Wuhan bat soup virus started in China. They just don't want anybody else to know.