This is not the only case , I have heard that there are 10 Customs boats on thier way from NZ complete, ready to be sent around Australia. We dont get the boat sales, engine sales , trailer sales ect.
Sucks.
This is not the only case , I have heard that there are 10 Customs boats on thier way from NZ complete, ready to be sent around Australia. We dont get the boat sales, engine sales , trailer sales ect.
Sucks.
Distributors don't make Jobs for Aussies anyway.....
It is manufacturing that is currently under fire and Gillard has just shunted an inquiry into that.
well..perhaps a lil research should have been done and the lectronics bloke may not have been completely truthful.
How about this..read the date and the value: http://www.australiandefence.com.au/...act-for-austal
and this one: http://www.strategicmarine.com/news-...al-police.aspx
maybe I have my maths wrongs butOriginally Posted by fishfeeder
get produced in malaysia, (200 million)
get produced in australia (250 million , (just a guess)
so when some of that money goes to the company profit, peoples wages,
guess what, the governement get some of it back in taxes anyway , so does it really cost more ????
and you keep employment in oz
I agree about the future - markets- trades etc but not sure about the cost, labour, fuel.
$200 m is worth far more in Oz. Taxes, jobs, money passed on that will be respent in Oz.
To me this is more a "you buy my cows and I'll but your electronics"
Oz may trying to convince malaysia to accept something and there will be some form of a sweetener for this deal to work. I'm sure i don't need to type out exactly whats been at stake between the two countries
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Yeh but giving work the the Kiwis is like paying ya little brother to polish ya shoes or doing the mowing you should be doing...
sending work to asia or china is a different matter altogether.
cheers
Its the details, those little details, that make the difference.
The Kiwis benefit from us and give nothing back.
They ain't my brothers...
We save even more money by doing that. The jobs created in NZ are directly responsible for an easing of the burden on Australia's welfare
If it was not for the Kiwis, who would drive our courier vans, remove our asbestos and lop our trees
cheers
Its the details, those little details, that make the difference.
I read a rather interesting thing in a Financial paper yesterday, it would seem China is starting to outsource their really low end gear to a lesser paid nation, rather ironic in a way, the rate of pay in some of the Countries mentioned was around $1.50 per hour, the cheap manufacturing places in India are paying semi skilled workers the princely some of 30 cents per hour, now lets see, I wonder why things can be done so cheap in poorer countires, especially anything that has a decent labour content. I can see how our Governmanet SHOULD use Australian steel, Australian boat builders and all sorts of things to keep us running, and in a way, maybe it would be more beneficial financially than putting people on the dole, there is no real answer to all this, we will continue to buy gear on line (thinking it is only a small transaction, so it won't hurt) just as Governments will make decisions based on cost, politics, stupidity, and simply as "favours" to other countries that we perceive to need to appease and keep as buddies!
Good onya PH, now you have gone and spoilt a good thread by doing a little bit of research and stumbled across the real facts.
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As some one who use to do this job
If they followed protocol it would give the australian vendor prefrence.
Where does it specify that in procurement guidelines? Govt can't discriminate against foreign tenders if they tick all the procurement boxes to provide value for money in the expenditure of commonwealth funds. Govt are commited to sourcing at least 10% of their successful procurements through aus (or nz) business (well, businesses that employ less than 200 ppl, I'm not sure what the guidelines state on bigger aus business tenders). In this instance, the local vendor/s were unlucky.
Look, I'm not anti-aust buying or anything but you gotta take the emotion out of the decision and see it for what it is. Govt has other policies/depts in place that deal with local jobs etc. At least the ppl operating the boats will be aussies, employed aussies.
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why all the hullaballo..read the links..the boats are being made in WA.
Surely you don't all believe what some salesperson at a show tells ya ?
Everyone has a very fair point and it is nice to help our economy where ever we can but this also means buying OS at times, The US is in a hole and you would be surprised by how much places like AUS are helping them to recover,, I was talking to a guy the other day about importing a boat, He lives in florida and he said to me that AUS and Euro are keeping him and his family with a roof over there head his local to export sales have gone through the roof in the last 2 years, Just think if the US market crashes the whole world feels it and it's bad news for everyone. Yes buy local where you can but just have a thought also that if other contries are making money too its also good for us sometimes VIA Tourism, Healthy stock market.... It is a same that he was not awarded the contract but I would also like to see the difference in tender prices ?
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