Lop-sided Asian free trade deals hurt Oz car-makers, says Bracks

[joolz]

Steve Bracks is such a hypocrit. Just 4 years ago he was wanting to half the tarrif on imports to 5%. We all know what that would do to the local industry. Why buy local when the imports are so much cheaper..

http://www.theage.com.au/national/ca...0818-3xnp.html

[joolz]

Originally Posted by turbodewd

Well our unemployment rate is around 5% so clearly its not a total disaster.

That 5% is flawed as its only going by the poeple on unemployment benefits, does not take into account the casuals getting minimum hours of work per week.

[music189]

Originally Posted by music189

No wonder Victoria was in the ----- when Bracks was premier what a genius, talk about stating the bleeding obvious


Imagine if we did tit for tat tax on utes Hi luxs etc would double in price overnight, be good for Ford and Holden utes!

In ten years time when we import all our vegetables etc the government will work out that they should have helped our farmers out and be pro active and stop foriegn counties buying all the farmland for their own food security cause now (in ten years time) all our food production is being sent OS and we have to buy it back

Quess what our brilliant Government is looking at now? selling the farm to China unbelievable they must go NOW

[BHDOGS]

You can change the government but do u believe the liberals will change the deal
Raise tarriffs increase handouts to the car company's they've already said there gonna ditch it when they get in so bringing them in will just kill holden and ford quicker but it's ok tho becoz they will get rid of the carbon tax and replace it with tony abbots parental leave tax for big business

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by joolz

That 5% is flawed as its only going by the poeple on unemployment benefits, does not take into account the casuals getting minimum hours of work per week.

The unemployment figures are calculated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics based on a survey of 30 000 households, not on unemployment benefits.
Up to the mid 1980s two sets of unemployment figures were released,
one for the ABS and one from the CES (Commonwealth Employment Service)
The CES figures were always higher than the ABS figures so the Govt of the day instructed the CES to cease publishing figures.
Since then we only have the ABS figures.
Your point on the 5 % figure being flawed is right on the money unfortunatly and so much is based on this flawed figure.
Bill.