Australian Goods in the Supermarket - Are they for you? (1 Viewer)
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Re: Buying Australian To Support Aussie Companies ?!?
If foreigners can provide goods that i want for a cheaper price than domestic producers can, then of course i will go with the foreign goods.
I'm not about to pay more than i have to just so i can be a bit patriotic or whatever.
Domestic producers should compete with foreigners. If they dont they should become more efficent etc, or simply perish. It is the will of the free market.
If foreigners can provide goods that i want for a cheaper price than domestic producers can, then of course i will go with the foreign goods.
I'm not about to pay more than i have to just so i can be a bit patriotic or whatever.
Domestic producers should compete with foreigners. If they dont they should become more efficent etc, or simply perish. It is the will of the free market.
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Re: Buying Australian To Support Aussie Companies ?!?
Yeah, buying Australian is a good way to go because the money is sent back into the Australian community. I was interested to in Dick Smith's proposal for Australian only isles but they disappeared. It is hard to find Australian products on shelves. But then again, as a uni student (and obviously cheap), I don't care so much for the brand as the price, which I think is an obvious problem in trying to convince people to buy Australian.
Yeah, buying Australian is a good way to go because the money is sent back into the Australian community. I was interested to in Dick Smith's proposal for Australian only isles but they disappeared. It is hard to find Australian products on shelves. But then again, as a uni student (and obviously cheap), I don't care so much for the brand as the price, which I think is an obvious problem in trying to convince people to buy Australian.
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Im all about the price and quality too.
When it comes to buying stuff like beef, I'd like to have Australian rather than expensive imported beef from america that has turned grey over the days at sea.
Im all about the price and quality too.
When it comes to buying stuff like beef, I'd like to have Australian rather than expensive imported beef from america that has turned grey over the days at sea.
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Re: Buying Australian To Support Aussie Companies ?!?
Impressive use of the banana. Though perhaps we would specialise in something we are better at than bananas, export more and stave off a CAD crisis?
I would suggest that we import bananas from the phillipines, they are barred because of an anti-competitive beat-up by australian banana growers about them carrying diseases. However other countries import them with no problem and the last prices I saw indicated prices at around $1.99-$2.99per kilo on the shelves as opposed to $13.99.
As people may have guessed, I like imports. I see no reason to pay more for an Australian good which is of equal or lesser quality to an import. The country of origin does not concern me when purchasing, only the price and quality do.
Furthermore you could not for instance eat oranges or asparagus year round without imports (from california/mexico and peru respectively).
Oh and sparcod/jingo refer to the waf argument thread for a salient argument in favour of free trade.
Impressive use of the banana. Though perhaps we would specialise in something we are better at than bananas, export more and stave off a CAD crisis?
I would suggest that we import bananas from the phillipines, they are barred because of an anti-competitive beat-up by australian banana growers about them carrying diseases. However other countries import them with no problem and the last prices I saw indicated prices at around $1.99-$2.99per kilo on the shelves as opposed to $13.99.
As people may have guessed, I like imports. I see no reason to pay more for an Australian good which is of equal or lesser quality to an import. The country of origin does not concern me when purchasing, only the price and quality do.
Furthermore you could not for instance eat oranges or asparagus year round without imports (from california/mexico and peru respectively).
Oh and sparcod/jingo refer to the waf argument thread for a salient argument in favour of free trade.
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I'm for the free traders, for the rather simple reason that if some people can do something more efficiently than other, then they should be the ones who should do such things.
Also, that 'poll' is horrific.
I'm for the free traders, for the rather simple reason that if some people can do something more efficiently than other, then they should be the ones who should do such things.
Also, that 'poll' is horrific.
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Poll update is great.
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Hmm oranges from the US are nice.. those ones from Florida.
Re: Buying Australian To Support Aussie Companies ?!?
i think buying the product of best quality and price (disregarding the country of origin) IS helping the australian economy and community in general, because then they can be more competitive internationally, which means more money is sent backEnlightened_One said:
Enlightened_One
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Anyway, does no one realise that the economy is built upon falsities. At the end of the day all the high paying jobs and our large human resources, middle management, whatever-it-calls-itself sector does not actually produe anything. If we keep under-cutting our industries then we'll be importing only and not exporting, thus sending our money away with out getting returns. Our only two definite exports are coal and uranium, because they can't be manufactured or grown. Yet coal is running out (though their may be large untouched deposits - and I want them to stay untouched) and we do not have a permanent supply of uranium. It is even debatle whether we should sell uranium.
As it is, we do not even set the price of coal, which we damn well could. We are dictated to by the buyer, when there is no ultimate alternative for the buyer. That bit's just a gripe about the sutpidity of our market forces.
Many people do not seem to realise that another recession (maybe to the level of the Depression) is not as far fetched a possibility as those in power like to posit. If that ever occured then all those middle management and human services jobs would be largely useless, because no one could afford to buy anything or use their services. Further, if we have decimated our industries and agriculture to a drastic point then it may be unreversible in time.
We don't even need a recession, just the outbreak of a world war, or turmoil in a country whose imports we are dependent upon will suffice.
Finally, I would rather buy Australian because I prefer to keep our level of unemployment down, because I trust our strict quarantine protocols more than others, and because I want the next generation to have jobs.
I fail to see your logic. How can sending money out of Australia help our economy? You claim that it will make us more competive, but because of our standard of living, if we want to compete with the third world countries who work for a dollar a day then we have to do the same. Do you really want to degenerate our standard of living?yy said:
Anyway, does no one realise that the economy is built upon falsities. At the end of the day all the high paying jobs and our large human resources, middle management, whatever-it-calls-itself sector does not actually produe anything. If we keep under-cutting our industries then we'll be importing only and not exporting, thus sending our money away with out getting returns. Our only two definite exports are coal and uranium, because they can't be manufactured or grown. Yet coal is running out (though their may be large untouched deposits - and I want them to stay untouched) and we do not have a permanent supply of uranium. It is even debatle whether we should sell uranium.
As it is, we do not even set the price of coal, which we damn well could. We are dictated to by the buyer, when there is no ultimate alternative for the buyer. That bit's just a gripe about the sutpidity of our market forces.
Many people do not seem to realise that another recession (maybe to the level of the Depression) is not as far fetched a possibility as those in power like to posit. If that ever occured then all those middle management and human services jobs would be largely useless, because no one could afford to buy anything or use their services. Further, if we have decimated our industries and agriculture to a drastic point then it may be unreversible in time.
We don't even need a recession, just the outbreak of a world war, or turmoil in a country whose imports we are dependent upon will suffice.
Finally, I would rather buy Australian because I prefer to keep our level of unemployment down, because I trust our strict quarantine protocols more than others, and because I want the next generation to have jobs.
Enlightened, thanks for your economic argument. You're very supportive of Australian industries. Back to that foreign invasion thinggy, China is winning.But most goods produced in China are done by non-Chinese companies.
Thanks. I thought that you can't edit polls.Generator said:
Enlightened_One
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Are you certain? I thought China's distinct advantage is that it has a huge population with a low standard of living and thus is dominant in the textile and manufacturing industries, hence why things say 'made in China' on them. I didn't think China needed to outsource?Sparcod said: