England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax. - George Orwell
if you haven’t got the 15-odd minutes to watch, it may be worth reading the transcript of this exploration of what Australia’s experience with foreign (Chinese) investment might have been like - based on the New Zealand experience…
many Australians may not have noticed it - in fact, it’s practically “unAustralian” to actually poke your head up and have a look around at what the rest of the world has been up to - even those just across the ditch - but New Zealand has recently become a major (the world’s largest) exporter of Dairy, worldwide (to be fair this commodity, like so many others, is currently suffering from a tragic case of oversupply)
probably just a coincidence… think nothing of it…
I’m sure China couldn’t possibly have anything at all to teach us about stuff like… I dunno… creating value-add products, or supply-chain… -and I’m sure we’re better off breaking up large portfolios like Kidman and selling off properties to individual farmers who are mortgaged to the eyeballs and would have no hope of being able to hold on if there was, say… I dunno maybe a drought or a fall in commodity prices - rather than some large corporation with deep pockets
right?
because… National Interest!!
like those crazy expensive not at all obsolete submarines we desperately need instead of… education and stuff…
Trump is the Republican contender.
My prediction of what he’ll be saying a year from now: I’m the biggest feminist around. I got the first lady elected to be president of the United States. Hillary can thank me for that."
