Excellent comment from Loonyright at Macrobusiness.com.au on damage to Australian industry caused by the higher dollar:
Australia has been losing investment in research and manufacturing well prior to 2002. The volatility of our currency is of nothing compared to the static, elevated cost of doing business – all resulting from higher wages, unattractive taxation, and unattractive levels of regulation. We are a stable, well educated populace – this should be the ideal home of all kinds of investment. Instead we have slowly and steadily dug ourselves into an entitlement mindset out of proportion to our ability to fund it. If we truly want a competitive, diversified economy that is not reliant on commodity prices and low interest rates to drive activity via the property market, then our uncompetitive wages, taxation and regulation MUST be addressed. It is fantasy to think we can change our fortunes without changing these factors.
via Gotti canvasses the unthinkable | | MacroBusiness.
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