We can’t make plastics for anything. Nor windows for anything. Nor towers for anything. Nor explosive inputs. Nor anything for anything.
The one thing you would think we were good at is making shit. But no, the great Australian idiot can no longer even take a dump. AFR.
High power prices could force the closure of a major fertiliser plant employing about 500 workers in north-west Queensland unless a buyer can be found in what would be another blow to the Albanese government’s plans to revive manufacturing on the east coast.
Dyno Nobel chief executive Mauro Neves said the company’s Phosphate Hill plant 140 kilometres from Mount Isa was at risk of closure due to high gas prices driving up the costs of the energy-intensive process of making the fertiliser that is commonly used for food crops across the country.
Hmmm, gosh, what should we do? Import LNG from China? Install a solar panel from China? Buy poo from China?
Or, wait for it, use QLD gas produced down the road more or less for free using domestic reservation policies already drawn up by Peter Dutton.
Nah, that’s too simple.
By the time Albo’s next two terms are up, Australians will be as helpless versus foreign technologies as the indigenous inhabitants of 1788.
Reconciliation with Chinese characteristics, we might call it.
