Mr Tony Shepherd, PRESIDENT of Business Council of Australia, has an article in todays Herald Sun. ( 15th Feb. 2012. Melbourne, Australia ). He talks about the need to fire up Industries Boilers, our workforce, read those with a proper job, need to become ultra efficient, increase their productivity, compete in overseas markets. We need to train more apprentices. etc etc.
My questions; Where are we going to train these apprentices? In China? So that they can take up a position in China? To supply Australia with Goods and Services?
If the Banks are our friends, my interpretation of where he is coming from, why are They Hell bent in creating mass unemployment?
Mr. Shepherd, where have you been since 1980? So Australia could maintain it's standard of living, we stopped manufacturing nuts and bolts and shovels and picks and tools and pistons for motor cars and irragation pumps and valves and etc etc.... I know, because I made them.
Mr Shepherd, I don't wish to be disrepectful, but please do not write articles along those lines. Don't dance the Modern Waltze around important issues, you are coming across as a person who is more concerned with how the Share Holders are going to make out if we, the workers, don't take our finger out. There is no point in continually raising dead horses to gallop ahead. The truth is there's only a little bit of petrol left in the tank, and the Democracy that we purport to practice in this Country is , and has been for decades, sacrificed to Multi- Nationals whose Boardrooms are overseas. The Steam Train has left the Station mr. Shepherd.....westwind.