Bring back Australian industrial infrastructure!

[thefoxaroo]

(This is a British cartoon, but it's nonetheless perfectly applicable to Australia too).

Comments

[dhlawrence]

Revitalized industrial infrastructure could be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, Australians will be working again so the jobs will be good. On the other hand, a revitalized industrial sector combined with what you tell me about Australia's immigration policy could turn you into the new sweatshop of the world. Be wary.

[thefoxaroo]

At present the opposite is true. There's a Simpsons episode that's especially pertinent, where Mr Burns was recalling his childhood (presumably in the 1930's) where workers had no rights at all, then he compared it to modern times where unions and strikes greatly altered the balance of power in favour of employees