by Patrick J. Byrne
With the death of Holden, the disruption of global supply chains by covid19 (coronavirus) and the United States’ fundamental “reset” of its foreign policy towards China, Australia must now rebuild its manufacturing and rural sectors in the national interest.
Together, these events uncover the disastrous cost of misplaced free-market doctrines and radical free trade policies, on the belief that mineral and rural exports would earn enough to pay for the vast array o…
