Free trade is a product of the doctrine of the  United Nations and the theory is simple. The countries with a plenty of raw materials are encouraged to sell this raw product to countries  with cheap labour to make goods to sell back to the countries who sold the raw materials to them in the first place.

The fact that  these third world countries depend on cheap labour of cottage industries and slave labour from gaols where democracy as we know it doesn’t exist , is diometrically opposed to our high standard of living in Australia.

We are close to Asia and we will naturally buy back processed goods made from our alumina, our coal and our iron ore.

In the ’90s America moved 400 factories to Mexico, their  poor southern neighbour under the system called NAFTA. ( North American Free Trade Agreement). Mexico now sells white goods and the like back to America. America was the world’s richest nation, but now is the world’s greatest debtor nation. America now borrows billions of dollars a month to keep afloat.

Mr Abbott and Mr Hockey talk about creating jobs and creating wealth with new factories springing up everywhere. 

It won’t happen .

What businessman would borrow money to start a new company when they are competing with people who are prepared to work for a bowl of rice ?

That is why thousands of our factories have gone off shore to obtain cheap labour .

Australians had better wake up and take a new tack or we will be the white trash of Asia .

Anyone care for a bowl of rice?

Bevan O’Regan

  Narrabri