So let me get this straight, our mines blew up in value around the time of the global financial recession and were a major part of what spared australia the worst of it. The (left) government decided to tax the ever living fuck out of them and they decided to just sell the mines to china.
Decades from now, a staggering amount of wealth will have been taken out of australia and sent to china. They managed to pay a single generation off and in turn secured some of our most valuable national assets forever. How is that not one of the most colossal fuck ups in our political history. It's like all you hear about is how julia stabbed kevin in the back, how the nbn didn't really work out and a couple of people died. This 5 pms nonsense. Why doesn't anyone mention the mines?
>>70209454
It won't matter if we can turn the resource boom into a high tech service and research based economy
>>70209454
The booms over anyway. No jobs left in mining now. Even without government involvement things would be the same
>>70209454
what mines, rare earths or gold i don't keep up on straya?
>>70209454
We're doing one smart thing, we're hoarding copper.
Copper is only going up in value.
>>70209454
Oneday we will get a based Prime Minister and start using Nuclear Weapons and technology.
>>70209454
>The (left) government decided to tax the ever living fuck out of them and they decided to just sell the mines to china.
That is pleb-tier biased analysis of the issue m8. Come on.
>>70212608
Nice try Jackie Chan, we know your game
>>70209454
>How is that not one of the most colossal fuck ups in our political history.(?)
because it was orchestrated that way by those same money junkie types who hide their wealth in fake companies and then tell the plebes to do "the heavy lifting"
>everything as it's always been and should be
>>70212927
I am an Aussie sex tourist currently abroad m8, not a chink.
Anyway I am dead tired and going to bed now so apologies but no more replies.
>>70210395
All of them. Every last fucking mineral you can possibly imagine. And they sold it all to the chinks.
>>70211792
good one, faggot -- I trade copper and it's worth fuck-all what it was a few years back and it's as volatile as fuck, even at the best of times
any resource's value nowadays is controlled by the chink hunger for it... only a literal world war could make the likes of copper worth investing in without 8-trades-per-second wall street algorithms running 24/7
>>70213031
you're fucking what, exactly, in hung dong?... chink traps?... kowloon dried tiger penises?
>>70213070
You should be hoarding it retard. Wait a decade.
>>70209576
>implying they won't just get on a plane to the US
ngjinieruoomurra
>>70213508
>can't tell whether this was a keyboard-mashing shitpost or an Aboriginal word
>>70213508
Who let the digerydindu on the net?
>>70213508
Can you get off my wifi cunt
>there are Australian posters on /pol/ who unironically support Labor
Melbournefag here, I'll be preferencing Greens over Labor.
If sacrificing this city means costing Labor the election it will be worth it. I'd rather a Liberal-Greens parliament than Labor-Liberal, there might actually be some policy debate instead of non-stop character assassinations from the party that does nothing and the heavily corrupt party that does stuff for no reason.
>>70214562
>the party that does nothing
That is the best kind of government. Stay the fuck out of people's lives.
Relaying on natural resources to keep the economy alive?...I guess some Europoor countries don't have ANY natural resources and they strong economies...time to educate Australia or will be fucked in ten more years...and don't blame the immigrants it's this country's fault.
Cuntys fucked
>>70209454
When the West and China go to war, they will lose everything. In fact, that's a major deterrent to war. So be happy, your giant neighbor is less likely to eat you.
>>70216001
>rich countries without natural resources
Japan and Switzerland are great examples of this.
>>70213142
REE
>>70216285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIubgsfK8E
>>70209761
the boom ended around 4 years ago when China finally slowed down it's iron ore industry and now we see people bitching about not having a job in mining and how the mining sector is going down because they dont understand how supply and demand works
>>70216791
god i hate abc and SBS ever since the early 2000s they have been complete trash.
the latenight gay porno movie sessions on SBS where fucked, my dad used to watch that shit god rest his soul.
>>70212927
But you are absolutely wrong, and probably acquire your understanding of the world from Today Tonight
>>70216597
Japan has the biggest debt of anywhere
>>70216791
This always cracks me up, and I mean all of it. This is comedy gold
>>70217407
And one of the best debt management plans in the world, because the people who own government debt are also Japanese, and usually more than willing to give the gvt some rope as long as it doesn't tread on too many business toes.
china is the asshole of the earth and obama is a double nigger who fucks with them and pisses them off. so yeah i think they get everything.
