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rmoor


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There has been a recent news item recently regarding a mess with the port in Tassie for the Spirit of Tasmania. Now it has been revealed that the storage costs until the vessel in Scotland will be as high as $47,534 per week.

The politician mixed up in the mess has been shifted to the backbench in Tasmania.

For those of us one day planning a trip to Tassie, these current issues may have some implications. If the Tasmanian government and the operators become severely out of pocket, they may look to recoup their losses down the track.

Exorbitant FUTURE ferry crossing charges!!!

I thought we had shipbuilding companies in South Australia? I realise Finland would no doubt be specialist ship-builders but it is just a shame that our manufacturing base has been so diminished over the years.



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I visited Finland in 2000. At that time, I was informed that Finland had a strong shipbuilding industry. There was much going on around one of the harbours near Helsinki.

To my knowledge, Finland has a high standard of living ie good wages, good social structure and social support. It is not like people are working and living in poor low socioeconomic conditions. In 2000, petrol was advertised at their normal outlets for around 7 Marks per litre, that at the time was $2AUD per litre.

Yep, we seem to have lost much manufacturing expertise and efficiency.

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Had a great ship building set up in williamstown in melbourne, seen many a fine ship come out of that yard, I was a fitter & heavy machinist then a toolmaker for 56 years, can,t replace all those very experienced tradesmen I ,m afraid, just all computer jockeys now, ****atoo Island in Sydney is another yard gone, used to build turbines there, the loss is the men not the buildings.

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I will see if I can avoid some of the gooblededook I put in my first paragraph above

Joda, there was so much manufacturing alive and well when I was a kid, one ponders what the factors were that reduced our base to almost nothing. Many factors I guess, cheaper goods/labour offshore, apathy, insufficient interest from government, no doubt many factors.

I saw a news article on electric cars a few days ago being produced here. One would think the production of basic vehicles in Australia would not be beyond us? A small electric city commuter vehicle and maybe something along the lines of a utility vehicle for on farm use etc would not be rocket science?



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rmoor wrote:

Joda, there was so much manufacturing alive and well when I was a kid, one ponders what the factors were that reduced our base to almost nothing.

By design.

The Lima Declaration in 1975. (video from 2018).

 

 



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Thanks for that.

I just researched the Lima Declaration and I learned something.

"United Nations Industrial Development Organisation"

So....our pollies sold us out in 1975, surprise, surprise.
It appears the practice still continues.

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