, as the federal government points to the crisis as proof of the need for local procurement.
"Just as we've dedicated ourselves to an effective pandemic response, we need to put no less importance on building national manufacturing capability to ensure our economic sovereignty," she says in the draft. "But I would point out that what we achieved with ventilator production, and many other areas of PPE, was done mainly through procurement contracts."Ms Andrews, a mechanical engineer before she entered Parliament in 2010, said "there are many things Australia won't and shouldn't be making".
When Blundstone shifted manufacturing from Tasmania to China&Vietnam 2007 they totally lost their appeal. These days I read they fall apart. Globalism at work!
So the government that rolled back support for local manufacturing now wants us to manufacture more...locally...
Not too sure about the speeding up of approvals. Does this mean the destruction of habitat and good agricultural land? If that is going to be the case, why can’t government select areas that have little value and make those available for development.
Buy local. Australia and Australians first