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Australia created its own industries as a defence during a small emergency called World War II, when a few wiser heads understood that we had to stand alone, pretty much as Britain did, until the arrival of massive United States forces.
A direct result of that was the seeking of a solid manufacturing base so that Australia would be able, in necessary, to stand alone for a time and even create its own defence mechanisms.
You saw this with the building of the Wirraway reconnaissance aircraft - at one time the ONLY aircraft that actually made it over the Owen Stanleys when much more powerful and vaunted US aircraft did not - and the Boomerang fighter that was made out of the same airframe, shortened and fitted with and impressive armament (same as the Zero), but suffered from the lack of supercharging, and was thus more suited to ground attack than actual fighter action at high altitude.
Many Aboriginal pilots flew Boomerangs... just saying.. our own version of the Tuscagee Airmen.
This lead to such aircraft as the Nomad and so forth, and the CAC Mustangs.
WW II also forced the creation of our own ship-building industries - the same ones that are now vilified at whim by governments of any stamp ONLY because the components the same governments buy for installation are simply not as good as the basic frame into which they are inserted, as with the Collins class submarines.
The government buys foreign s#it that fails, and then blame the workmen when the equipment they are forced to use is below our required standard, and so the government then says the workmanship of the local lads and lasses is no good.
Yet they never say that about our service men and women when they fight the good fight as directed. Would the same armchair critics ever dare?
Now - anyone who thinks that our Defence Forces should go into battle with a numerically superior enemy - which is ALWAYS the case - without adequate, finely honed, totally maintained, totally modern, and fully supported equipment and with total and absolute training and support from their own government ....
.....now leave the room!
Manufacturing slump?
I call it a sell-out of our basic need to defend ourselves against all enemies.
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