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Originally Posted by minheim
Imagine if we developed a truely Australian owned manfacturer in the 1949 and actively pursued exports rather than beholden to foreign owned entities. Maybe we could have been South Korea of the region exporting to right and left hand drive markets. We had all the raw materials and the brains.
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I've often wondered the same thing. A country full of all the resources needed to manufacture and we somehow manage to not support that and then sell off our mines to overseas interests.