My old manual lawn-mower saves fuel, money to buy, money to run, noise, and carbon emissions - as well as being durable, mendable and light exercise for everyone including children. But Bunnings has brummy later manual- models on sale, mostly imported, so that people buy power-models.
The old Australian-made Electrolux vacuum-clearners never needed a bag-change. Now we have imported cleaners which can be good but need bag-changes, or are brummy if they don’t.
The magazine ‘Choice’ rarely lists ‘Australian-made’ as an advantage, and indeed, does not often include these products in its choices tested.
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As far as I know, no small efficient car is made in Australia, but the car industry struggles on with government support making large cars.
More jobs kept in Australia are more desirable for making possible increasing turnover in manufactures and produce, than the present dangerous policy of increasing population. Australian manufactures could mean the revival of Port Kembla steel-works. Even before the natural disasters of winds and floods, 1,000 Australian family farm businesses were disappearing annually, another source of our diminishing ‘useful jobs’.
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Imports bring profits to importers, middlemen and financial dealers. But imports cost more in peak-oil, reducing resources, and more carbon emissions than what can be made at home.
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