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- From: brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones)
- Newsgroups: aus.general
- Subject: Re: Australian Products?
- Message-ID: <7175@otc.otca.oz>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:33:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.035632.23989@bby.com.au>
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- in article <1993Jan21.035632.23989@bby.com.au>, gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) says:
- > As long as we remain a commodity based exporter, we will get screwed
- > along with the rest of the third world. It's only by changing the
- > export base to manufactered goods, value-added goods, services and
- > intellectual property that we will improve.
-
- Well, tourism and manufacturing together make more than 50% of Australia's
- export earnings (inbound tourism is treated as an export) and services forms
- another large percentage. I don't see that we're *too* heavily dependent upon
- commodities looking at that score.
-
- Damn, I really should get a copy of the last National Accounts and shoot some
- hard figures in here...
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