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03-04-2020, 11:36 PM | #1081 | ||
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Always try to buy Aussie as much as is possible. I always buy Canberra milk every week.
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03-04-2020, 11:49 PM | #1082 | |||
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Good part of town, pensioners ? I love Buy Australia but not easy anymore. Think how many differing lines in Bunnings - would be aussie made ? Not many. Harvey Normans etcetcetc.... Sad. Hopefully this virius is a window of opportunity for Australia to get some of its country back in the comign future. Wake up pollies, get smarter.
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03-04-2020, 11:57 PM | #1083 | |||
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I try to buy both Aus made and owned as a priority. Also FYI, LION owns the controlling stake in Canberra Milk. LION is owned by the Japanese. Bega does own a 25% share, so it is a little bit Australian. Riverina Fresh and Norco are both Australian.
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04-04-2020, 12:03 AM | #1084 | ||
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Aldi have started selling Norco milk
I dont know about anywhere else, but the Maccas south of wollongong are now selling 2 litre milk, english muffins & hamburger buns in the drive thru, for those not wanting to risk it & go to the supermarket
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04-04-2020, 12:04 AM | #1085 | ||
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It's going to be a long road back for Australia if we wanted Australian manufacturing. It's been disappearing from 1980 - it took 40 years to go so it's not coming back quickly.
Business owners, government and the people have been OK with it going with the general belief that manufacturing doesn't suit our size, resources and other abilities. Everyone's been told to get a job in mining, trades, hospitality, tourism, retail, admin,clerical,it, business etc and leave the manufacturing to 3rd world companies for decades. I'm surprised that the gov is throwing so much money out for welfare right now but they've never wanted to spend money on the australian secondary industry. If you want to buy Australian your only guarantee is with primary produce (meat and veg). So much packaged good has moved to NZ! or even Europe rather than make jobs here. Since when did they have a higher ability than here? If there's going to be a long recession with millions of unemployed then a think about secondary manufacturing by the gov needs to done. Do something about it for a change. Make more steel here and other end products rather than just export ore. Maybe do something about our water supplies. Hell annex the holden and ford factories and make some electric utes |
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04-04-2020, 12:05 AM | #1086 | |||
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04-04-2020, 12:13 AM | #1087 | ||
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At least if you were going to kick off manufacturing again it can be started in a much more efficient setup rather than old factories and methodology.
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04-04-2020, 12:13 AM | #1088 | ||
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That is the marker. We are roughly at 18% of GDP in bailouts at the moment.
They doubled the dole where as before the debate was about about $50 or so bucks which to be fair would be structural budget issue where these measures have sunset clauses. That's how you know **** is ****ed up when a conservative government is spending this much. A small budget surplus evaporated into a massive deficit. As far as I'm concerned as long as we can keep the unemployment rate under the rate of spending, that will be a win. Last edited by MITCHAY; 04-04-2020 at 12:19 AM. |
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04-04-2020, 06:50 AM | #1089 | |||
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04-04-2020, 09:20 AM | #1091 | ||
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04-04-2020, 09:23 AM | #1092 | ||
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04-04-2020, 09:43 AM | #1093 | ||
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It's owned by a British company. That company was acquired by the Chinese a few years ago though.
You just can't escape the Chinese, unfortunately.
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04-04-2020, 10:20 AM | #1094 | ||
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04-04-2020, 10:34 AM | #1095 | |||
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a part of the visy packaging co make plastic bottles and ally cans (you know the cool drink thingies) and we use to cart them from where they were made in WA or stored in WA to coke or schweppes (and yes i know they arnt australian either but the product is made here as well) and we use to cart jim beam and <whatever> cans to schweppes for them to make the pre mixers on behalf of the jim beam co ok so some profits go to the parent co but as prices of the same stuff made here dont go up , it just chips away at how much of the profit doesnt stay here oh and the can manufacturer was WA owned and do glass bottles for the drinking industry (seen bundy and beam bottles produced there my brother works for them)
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04-04-2020, 10:48 AM | #1096 | ||
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Am I the only one or is anybody else going insane over the saturation of preaching by Federal and State Government people
WE GET IT....All they're going to do is drive us mad with frustration with ever more confusing restrictions and closures . Even within the 'rules' it's confusing not least with visiting of family members and such . All they need to do is sent every household a few key rules to observe on what happens in writing should they be required to self isolate and penalties for breaches of that . Also some commonsense social distancing requirements outside of work and shopping etc needs for the rest of us which is the vast majority. Also really important IMO is a more respectful acceptance that 99.9% of Australians do understand how dangerous this disease is. Clearly spell out the penalties of basic rules breaches , but allow us some semblance of normality to use our brains while trying to cope with all of this . PLEASE !!!!!!!!! |
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04-04-2020, 11:17 AM | #1097 | ||
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Living in Poverty
Domestic violence More money for the arts Social distancing Flattening the curve Support for backpackers All worthy and we get the message BUT, there is SFA on the TV except endless sensational diatribe on nearly every channel. This morning my non-C19 viewing included: some crap gardening show, Tom and Jerry and MacGyver. Now that the feds have gone total socialist mode, why don’t they instruct the TV channels to put some entertainment back on free to air! Or else reconsider the one slab of beer per day as it will not be enough to numb the boredom. Note: at least I have a pool table and each night the family shoots pool for a few hours but that will wear off. |
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04-04-2020, 11:38 AM | #1098 | |||
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people will be able to get a dose of Alf and the river boys nightly, how good will that be. |
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04-04-2020, 12:04 PM | #1099 | ||
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04-04-2020, 12:45 PM | #1100 | ||
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04-04-2020, 12:57 PM | #1101 | |||
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As an Aussie living afar... possibly the best news in the thread! (I thought the River boys were long gone though??) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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04-04-2020, 01:24 PM | #1102 | |||
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Who's that dumb ugly looking bloke with Alf? |
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04-04-2020, 01:25 PM | #1103 | |||
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04-04-2020, 02:07 PM | #1104 | |||
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Even in your own post you mention 'visiting family' which is fine if they are in need of 'care' but if its just 'socialising' then it comes under non essential travel. People just need to reign it in for a while. Go to work or sit at home and go out only for essential shopping/doc visits etc. Just suck it up. We're all in it together. I'm not sure people fully understand how lethal the 'potential' is of the virus. Yes, the numbers aren't as bad statistically as other viruses we've had before, but we are only at the beginning. Australia being an island has the potential to handle it better than other larger continents but it relies on everyone doing their bit.
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04-04-2020, 02:54 PM | #1105 | |||
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If it was allowed the same opportunities to spread as the normal flu, it would be out of control already. If you look at a world map which highlights the spread and level of outbreak you see that the majority of hard hit countries are just coming out of their Winter months, so the colder northern conditions would assist the virus. We're still on the tail end of a fairly warm, dry Summer/Autumn and so whilst our spread doesn't look anything like those in other regions, we're yet to experience the conditions which bring about our regular flu season. We are probably lucky that its hit us when it did and not in 3 months as those maps could be quite different without the lead in we've had in Australia. |
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04-04-2020, 02:54 PM | #1106 | ||
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04-04-2020, 02:55 PM | #1107 | |||
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I don't accept your premise the virus is 'lethal'. Lethal to everyone? Not so, the statistics are proving this. I'm in my late 40's and have zero concern about catching it. I take my daily routine of Vit A, C and D, well above the RDI's ( which are BS), eath healthy, exercise and get sun light. Pretty much everything the government is not telling the public to do. I'd like to think that those at risk do the right thing and stay at home and practice social isolation. It's the pandering to the minority and vulnerable that's caused the economy to crash. Pretty disgraceful by all accounts and some in MSM are beginning to discuss this. The government better have not over reacted and destroyed the economy based on the advice of false modelling and information from the bed wetters in health agencies. The WHO has proven time and time again to be the fraud organisation it is.
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04-04-2020, 03:13 PM | #1108 | |||
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04-04-2020, 03:31 PM | #1110 | |||
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From my own perspective I was captivated by it to a certain degree, in the beginning I was watching every announcement made and the Fox COVID channel was on constantly, I've since toned it down a bit as much of it is either irrelevant to my part of the country or the same old stuff on a loop. My Wife was over it after a week, every time she saw the COVID channel on she'd roll her eyes and walk out of the room. I guess that's the beauty of choice, for those who want to keep up 24/7 theres a dedicated channel and for those who don't you just switch off, its easier with Fox, especially since they've opened up all their channels for no extra cost. I think so long as someone in you're close knit group is keeping up to date with the changes which have certainly slowed down in the last week or so, then you can keep informed without the saturation. |
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