The US went down this free trade path and were conned by the promise of a huge chinese market they could then sell their goods too. What happened was the US corporations saw an opportunity to close down US factories and relocate them to china and rest is history. Be alarmed not alert - we are going through the same process. In fact it is a lot worse for Australia because it has already lost a lot of its manufacturing capacity.

freediver wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 8:48am:



Dos it? Why? Because you're ideologically opposed to it? Isn't it better Aussie are actually working?

Having unemployed saves taxpayers NOTHING. What we save in subsidies we end up paying in social security benefits

freediver wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 9:14am:


FD you must be a very rich man with no financial worries for the rest of your life, otherwise you are just a fool that thinks he is rich.

First of all if you HAVE to work to survive like most of us you can kiss the unions arse that you are getting a good wage and only have to work 40 hours a week otherwise you would be working 16 hours a day, every day of the week for a dollar an hour.

Unions are responsible for your CURRENT job conditions and entitlements.

Globalisation is bad for all nations cause the greedy oligarchy only care about money and profits, shifting your job my job and most Australian jobs to low cost centres of shore is preferable to the oligarchy who wouldn't even blink an eye lid as to how your or my family will survive.

Show me a nation that has prospered under globalisation and isn't in debt...!!

Do you object to slave labour...???

What about child labour.....????

Let go of the stupidity that is blue red or green and look out for the whole of Australia, not just yourself but your neighbour as well.

Its called a fair go.

freediver wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 9:14am:



not forgetting their free pass to a life time of rewards on the front benches of the labor party..

why keep propping up car companies that have already said we are gone by 2017 anyway no matter what you do...


it makes sense to some..

I dont worry about them....they think it makes them look compassionate and caring... of course all the while ROME is burning....but dont anyone  tell them...

freediver wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 9:14am:


Does that apply to all of the corporate welfare handed out to people who hoard property ?

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 10:59am:


The way Australia is transitioning into a bullshit service sector selling cups of coffee to each other they will be lucky to still have the skills to make pulverised sheep sh.t

Sir lastnail wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 11:23am:


The economic cycle may turn in favor of the white trash of Asia again. But their skills may have declined to the bottom level menial service industry, giving each other hand jobs and changing adult diapers.

The Chinese are taking this Country by stealth.  Buying our farms,  our firms, our real estate.....,

Try doing that in China.

The stupid Politicians will turn this Country into third world white trash with the Chinese owning our sorry arses.