Foreign Dependence is the Problem

 

I remember many years ago, probably as far back as 2013 maybe 2015, listening to a Sky News discussion and the host had Labor and Liberal representatives on their show.

He asked them, "Does it really matter that we are getting rid of fuel refineries and car manufacturing?"

"No." They both said. "We can get what we need from Asia."

I remember thinking, "How can they be so dumb? What happens when war comes along?"

I never forgot that interview, because the retardery of what these representatives both said burned a memory in my mind. They were ok with a policy that made Australia's position in the world more precarious, more dependent. 

I no longer think they were dumb, I think they were corrupted, either by ideology or something else. You have to be very shortsighted to think that being dependent on other countries for basic commodities that make your economy move, literally, is a wise move.

This fuel crisis is 100% the fault of the two major parties and their short-term thinking. They worked hard to make us exposed, because they could not think ahead, or were the given incentives not to think ahead? Remember this at every election for the next three decades. Because these political parties have zero intentions of fixing a crisis they manufactured.

Labor is addicted to pushing us towards reliance on China, which every thinking Australian can see will end badly. EV's might be a short-term fix. But reliance on other countries is the problem, not the solution. That would simply leave us exposed to other forms of potential crisis.

The LNP is addicted to being a damp squib, utterly useless at fixing Labor's bad policies. They seem to be more afraid of being uninvited to inner city dinner parties than doing the right thing with resources. Though at the state level in QLD we see some movement in the right directions.  

But at the Federal level neither of these parties should be forgiven for their mismanagement of this country. Forgiveness is for individuals, not political parties. They need to be voted out of all levers of power and influence, so that sensible people can come in and change our country's direction.