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- From: adt@technix.oz.au (Andrew Tune)
- Subject: Re: Australian Products
- In-Reply-To: djewell@rhea.trl.OZ.AU's message of Tue, 19 Jan 1993 01:49:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <ADT.93Jan20175208@saussure.technix.oz.au>
- Sender: adt@technix.oz.au (Andrew Tune)
- Organization: TechNIX Consulting Services, Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 07:52:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.014916.9597@trl.oz.au> David Jewell writes:
- > Things are tight world wide and it is human nature to look after your own
- > family, your own community, your own country first.
-
- Yes, I understand that. Centuries ago it was "my tribe versus your
- tribe", then "my town versus your town", then "my region versus your
- region". Right now it's "my country versus yours". I realise it's
- natural. So is greed and jealousy. But just because it's natural
- doesn't necessarily mean it's best for the human race _as_a_whole_.
-
- > Thus if a foreign owned
- > company in Australia is having economic trouble back home which factory do
- > you think they will close first, the one in England or the one is Australia?
-
- The one which isn't running at a profit, regardless of the country.
- If the English company has a profit making factory in Oz and a
- loss-making factory in the UK, shutting down the Australian one would
- be a recipe for disaster. But this is nothing to do with geography,
- it's to do with profitability.
-
- adt.
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