Non Footy Chat Thread II

[Gronk]

Dutton will bring back music festivals.

 

[hindy111]

Not sure how it’s Albo’s fault that a music festival can’t sell tickets because no one wants to go. What’s he supposed to do?

Subsidies them and more money towards music idustry

 

[hindy111]

Dutton will bring back music festivals.

Holden should of also been helped to stay.
Who was running the country when they let that fold?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Dutton?

 

[Avenger]

The greatest generation and when the world was more normal.

 

[Gronk]

Holden should of also been helped to stay.
Who was running the country when they let that fold?

Tones.

Tony Abbott demands Holden makes decision on future, rules out any more funding

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has demanded Holden decide if they want to stay in Australia or leave, saying they owe it to their workforce to decide whether they are staying or going.

www.smh.com.au

 

[hindy111]

Tones.

Tony Abbott demands Holden makes decision on future, rules out any more funding

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has demanded Holden decide if they want to stay in Australia or leave, saying they owe it to their workforce to decide whether they are staying or going.

www.smh.com.au

Ok he is the worse ever in my eyes then. This should never of happened. Holden had to remain open.

 

[Avenger]

It’s an absolute disgrace that Holden and Ford died in this country. I know there are many factors for it. When I see our politicians driving around in BMW’s it saddens me.

 

[Avenger]

Ok he is the worse ever in my eyes then. This should never of happened. Holden had to remain open.

If I was the PM, I’d insist it be resurrected.

 

[Twizzle]

Not sure how it’s Albo’s fault that a music festival can’t sell tickets because no one wants to go. What’s he supposed to do?

Surely Albo can use his influence to get some decent international acts.

Just like America, if a helicopter crashes, its Biden's fault, if the dams dry out, its Bidens fault, so in Australia it must be Albos fault.

Cuz this is exactly how politics works.

 

[Incorrect]

Not sure how it’s Albo’s fault that a music festival can’t sell tickets because no one wants to go. What’s he supposed to do?

With a defeatist attitude like that you could start your own music festival!!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If I was the PM, I’d insist it be resurrected.

Entirely staffed by APS

 

[Incorrect]

Entirely staffed by APS

Anal Polyp Surgeons?

 

[Eelogical]

Ok he is the worse ever in my eyes then. This should never of happened. Holden had to remain open.

Many factors at play on this one. GM in America pulling the strings, union demands at the plant in Adelaide and Holden not reading the room as far as what they perceived the general public wanted. Commodores and Cruzes rolling off the line weren't what the average Aussie wanted any more. The boganmobile (Commodore) wasn't selling in great numbers and when Holden decided to import their small car and SUV range from Daewoo and shove a Holden badge on them the writing was on the wall. For the rusted on Holden merkin the ZB imported Commodore from Europe was the final nail. While I'm a Holden fan through and through I think the right call was made. Simply, OZ isn't up to manufacturing compared to other nations any longer, and that goes for a ton of other manufacturers that have also fallen by the wayside.

 

[Suitman]

Many factors at play on this one. GM in America pulling the strings, union demands at the plant in Adelaide and Holden not reading the room as far as what they perceived the general public wanted. Commodores and Cruzes rolling off the line weren't what the average Aussie wanted any more. The boganmobile (Commodore) wasn't selling in great numbers and when Holden decided to import their small car and SUV range from Daewoo and shove a Holden badge on them the writing was on the wall. For the rusted on Holden merkin the ZB imported Commodore from Europe was the final nail. While I'm a Holden fan through and through I think the right call was made. Simply, OZ isn't up to manufacturing compared to other nations any longer, and that goes for a ton of other manufacturers that have also fallen by the wayside.

Basically sums it up.
Australia's manufacturing is going down the gurgler. There's no point in blaming any one PM for what has happened in the past. The whole country is going down the shitter no matter who is in charge.

Can anyone tell me why we import Natural Gas, when we have the 2nd largest natural reserves of the product in the world?
Why do we export so much Iron Ore that is then used for the production of steel, and then we import this steel back?
There is so much wrong with this country and the way we go about things.

 

[Eelogical]

Basically sums it up.
Australia's manufacturing is going down the gurgler. There's no point in blaming any one PM for what has happened in the past. The whole country is going down the shitter no matter who is in charge.

Can anyone tell me why we import Natural Gas, when we have the 2nd largest natural reserves of the product in the world?
Why do we export so much Iron Ore that is then used for the production of steel, and then we import this steel back?
There is so much wrong with this country and the way we go about things.

I've toured the Holden plant in Adelaide twice. Also spent a day at their Lang Lang proving grounds. They were good at what they did until around the mid 2000's. After that the slide was inevitable. What a lot of merkins don't realise is that when Toyota and then Ford pulled out of local manufacturing it wasn't viable for local, and to a lesser extent overseas parts suppliers to make many parts that goes into making a car. A lot of those places were supplying parts to all three manufacturers at one point.