Because the largest part of Australia’s manufacturing industry is the processing of food and fibre off the farm, a high priority of industry policy must be to secure rural and regional Australia. Many Australian farmers have had negative incomes, or lived on barely subsistence incomes, for years. This will worsen because of the long-term downward…
Recently, the Prime Minister called for 20-year vision projects to build the Australian economy. Of vital importance is the development of Australia’s water supplies. Based on the popular assumption that Australia is a “dry” continent, greens, bureaucrats and politicians have pursued the policy line of least resistance on the looming shortage of water. They have…
Deregulation of the Australian economy has done more than seriously undermine local industries and create a growing underclass. It has led to unprecedented intergenerational theft, as Pat Byrne reports. One of the great human virtues is to strive to leave the world in better shape for the next generation – more peaceful, better organised, more…
GETTING ON TRACK: A Business Plan for AustraliaSociety for Australian Industry and Employment Paperback RRP $19.95 plus p&h (Available from News Weekly Books) A new book, Getting on Track: A Business Plan for Australia, calls on Australian governments to re-build industries and generate meaningful employment in Australia, in the face of declining rural and manufacturing…
