Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 4:50 pm "Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oy Oy Oy" redneck types

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 4:11 am Sorry Rex, no matter what these three clowns ^^^ say on Rupert Murdochs Sky loopy loop, it means very little to me.

Bloke on the left - one of the grubbiest and most openly corrupt Labour party politicians that Australia has ever produced. Long retired. An out and proud self confessed liar and a whiskey faced fat toad. i saw him a couple of weeks ago driving a dirty ten year old Holden.
Bloke in the middle - a hate promoting shock jock. Former aust rugby coach who was once arrested for having sex in a London public toilet with a rent boy when the team was on tour.
Bloke on the right - a fundamentalist christian redneck member of parliament who an inquiry last year found had spent a full 1/3 of the past few years mongering in Angeles Phillipines instead of being busy representing his constituency back home. Paid for by the Aust taxpayer. AFP found he had a reputation there for being particularly fond of very young girls.

I don't take my guidance from blokes like that.
Self promoting egoists more interested in feeding red meat to the hounds rather than coming up with meaningful solutions.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 6:37 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 4:38 pm

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 2:53 pm Prevent Chinese from studying in Oz, diversify your markets and say screw China.

Approximately $12 Billion (AUS) is brought in by Chinese students studying in Australia every year. How can you diversify your markets when you are selling so many resources to China?

Our resources and services whether that be uni education, barley, coal, iron ore, wine, beef whatever.. has a value in the market. Now it is the case that Australia has gravitated in the last 20 odd years to China to a point where 38% of all our exports go there because presumably they either paid a higher price, take higher volume, sign longer contracts whatever.. But nevertheless what we have to offer has value and wanted by other countries.. not just the PRC..look at the other emerging SE Asian countries Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines et al. We already do good trade with Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

But when a customer becomes feral in the sense that they threaten to cancel those contracts and/or boycott your products coz we don't necessarily follow and agree with their ideology and propaganda and set up Australia as an example to the world by punishing us, then, it seems that we are better off as member BKL said above.. to diversify our markets elsewhere and reduce our dependence on them.

Now, that may mean short term pain to move to different customers and supply lines and even perhaps accepting lower prices for some of our goods or terms that are not as favourable. However, I do think that Australia does need to wake up and realise that accepting best price and volume from 1 key customer adds a lot of risk. Something that is becoming clearer and clearer in recent times. If we diversify, in the longer term we won't have to kowtow to any one country and we will better off for it imo.

Clemen wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 7:04 pm Donald Trump as an empty suit