Posted to Monash Weekly (2/4/2013) ON 2/4/2013 at 1:28 PM
Commenting on "ALBANESE: Why Labor deserves your vote"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/story/1397660/albanese-why-labor-deserves-your-vote
It is just like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. Both parties are trying to convince the people of Australia that they are better than their opposition.
Whether Australia has the fastest NBN is not the issue. The crux of the matter is how many businesses and household would really benefit from fast NBN? The global financial crisis hits almost every advanced nation, even though they possess network transmission speed much higher than Australia. The spinoff of high speed benefits the entertainment and news industries. Does it mean that more people can see the end of a soap opera before it starts, or foretell tomorrow's news? Sorry if I do sound cynical and nonsensical.
Time and again pots of money are spent on things that do not create long term real employment. Without employment, there is no income for householders to spend. Most jobs, mainly part time or casual, created so far are in the service industries. Let's step back one step. Service industry is only good if there is spare cash around; otherwise the net balance in any household budget will go belly-up. The internal circulation of money cannot last unless there is injection of external money from other countries. We pay a lot of money buying goods produced overseas, hence benefiting their employment situation - NOT ours.
Our regional community needs more than bypasses. Many small towns, here and abroad think that bypasses are god sent, but they only realise too late that heavy traffic means good business. Bypasses will turn many into ghost towns, because these towns will soon be forgotten, and likely unidentified by Google map.
Why are employers using imported skilled migrants? Are they really skilled? Australia is still so short of tradespeople, and yet for years the TAFEs and universities are churning out more paper-qualified graduates who are candidates to join the dole queue, or end up in supermarket checkouts or vacuuming nursing home floors. The whole education system is out-of-whack, and this has nothing to do with funding. The system is producing round pegs for square holes, and has no concept of needs and wants of the target industries.
With so much land and yet Australia is still not self-sufficient foodwise. Being a very, very large island surrounded by water, and yet Australia is frequently hit by drought. With increasing unemployment rate, and yet Australia is short of skilled tradespeople. Being a so called lucky country, and yet we are not as technologically advanced as China, once a peasant country three decades ago.
Commenting on "ALBANESE: Why Labor deserves your vote"
http://www.monashweekly.com.au/story/1397660/albanese-why-labor-deserves-your-vote
It is just like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea. Both parties are trying to convince the people of Australia that they are better than their opposition.
Whether Australia has the fastest NBN is not the issue. The crux of the matter is how many businesses and household would really benefit from fast NBN? The global financial crisis hits almost every advanced nation, even though they possess network transmission speed much higher than Australia. The spinoff of high speed benefits the entertainment and news industries. Does it mean that more people can see the end of a soap opera before it starts, or foretell tomorrow's news? Sorry if I do sound cynical and nonsensical.
Time and again pots of money are spent on things that do not create long term real employment. Without employment, there is no income for householders to spend. Most jobs, mainly part time or casual, created so far are in the service industries. Let's step back one step. Service industry is only good if there is spare cash around; otherwise the net balance in any household budget will go belly-up. The internal circulation of money cannot last unless there is injection of external money from other countries. We pay a lot of money buying goods produced overseas, hence benefiting their employment situation - NOT ours.
Our regional community needs more than bypasses. Many small towns, here and abroad think that bypasses are god sent, but they only realise too late that heavy traffic means good business. Bypasses will turn many into ghost towns, because these towns will soon be forgotten, and likely unidentified by Google map.
Why are employers using imported skilled migrants? Are they really skilled? Australia is still so short of tradespeople, and yet for years the TAFEs and universities are churning out more paper-qualified graduates who are candidates to join the dole queue, or end up in supermarket checkouts or vacuuming nursing home floors. The whole education system is out-of-whack, and this has nothing to do with funding. The system is producing round pegs for square holes, and has no concept of needs and wants of the target industries.
With so much land and yet Australia is still not self-sufficient foodwise. Being a very, very large island surrounded by water, and yet Australia is frequently hit by drought. With increasing unemployment rate, and yet Australia is short of skilled tradespeople. Being a so called lucky country, and yet we are not as technologically advanced as China, once a peasant country three decades ago.
