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Originally Posted by Big Damo

We have the same issue at work, lets be honest, everyone including me wants more for doing less, I was having a chat to my supervisor and he mentioned the same thing. We're an auto elec business but we're more of a manufacturer, we produce emergency vehicles for the whole country.

I understand where we're all coming from on the boss side of things, I mentioned one thing:

If its so bad why don't you fire everyone, and ship the entire operation off to China?

He didn't have a response.

They already make our furniture for our vehicles and our wiring looms, why can't they put them together?

Why not sack everyone and ship it offshore?

Well I have been in that situation where I could have done so but like many Australians I believe in this country and usually do the best I can to make it a better place.

I talk it up when overseas rather than berate it.
I train and employ Australians rather than import fully trained people.
I spend most of my money here and will buy Australian produce before imported when available.

I am a bit worried that the old Australian adage of "looking after your mates" has been replaced by the "stuff everyone else it is all about me" mentality that appears so often on television.

Yes are goods are more expensive than other parts of the world but our wages are also higher, our conditions better, our hospitals and ambulances are basically free and we support more bludgers per head of population than anywhere else on the planet.