COMMENT, Melbourne — It seems politicians at the State Level in Australia are determined to destroy local manufacturing.
Consistently the Victorian Government in Melbourne, & NSW Government in Sydney import trains & trams rolling stock.
According to The Age, $3.6 Billion dollars of import orders in the last 18 months.
For citizens.
The imported trains & trams often have problem working in different climates, on different rails, and with different power requirments.
Furthermore, the seats in imported trams provide less effective seating, being often too small for the Australian market.
For local manufacturing.
If the Governments do not support local manufacturing then the work will go entirely offshore.The loss of crucial skills & capital is one issue.
More importantly, as an industry manufacturing produces something essential; financial engineering does not.
Like the Carr-Iemma government, Brumby prefers to constantly advertise on TV. The money expended on advertising annually could be applied to actually delivering services.
The 2thinknow view is that trains & trams should be made in Australia. Victoria. South Australia. NSW. Local industry becoming local innovators.
Crisis, Buy Local.
Rather than wasteful money stimulation packages, how about taking money earmarked for imports & replacing them with local product?
Trends haven’t yet moved towards local manufacturing, but a nascent cycle is due.
Let us know your thoughts…
[...] most pressing issue is with Brumby-Bracks Victoria, and Carr-Iemma-Rees NSW. As 2thinknow pointed out earlier today, these Governments refuse to support local manufacturing of trains & trams despite problems [...]