Australia’s losing way

LEE Kuan Yew, the prime minister of Singapore 1959- 1990, once famously predicted that Australia would eventually become the trash of Asia. I think this was his prediction of the 1980s and 30 years on I believe we are headed down that path.

Australia post WWII was the most exciting, progressive western civilised nation and was self- sustained in agriculture, manufacturing and involved with space and rocketry. It had manufactured aircraft, armoured fight vehicles, ships, developed rail networks and national highways with trains and cars to use them.

In less than 25 years we have lost 80 per cent of that capacity and export minerals in their raw state, have one steelworks along with agricultural produces and import most processed foods, all whitegoods and home/ living needs. We do not manufacture cars, trucks, trains and only make warships.

There are the signs of a nation in regression as it slides from a first world nation being self- sufficient to a second world country exporting raw materials and importing all its national and domestic needs.

When did this national decay start? Some say from when Labor formed a government with the election of Gough Whitlam. I agree but add that every government since Whitlam’s demise in 1975 are involved, and Malcolm Fraser was the most inept prime minister that we have had in history, and he was the architect and implementer of this erosion.

The world has changed. Globalisation for Australia has been the destroyer of Australia that cannot sustain itself when every drop of oil and its products are imported. Even clothes and footwear are imported, as are thousands of tonnes of processed food.

With electricity costs ever increasing because of ridiculous political policies that stymie coal power generation that is ruining manufacturing and steel production, placing industries in an untenable position to develop future planning and production.

We are isolated from other western culture and industrial nations. For future prosperity and not becoming the “The Trash of Asia”, we must again become self- susstaining. The start must be dumping the Paris Agreement, next to all UN conventions that remove our sovereignty and reduces the government’s power enshrined in the Constitution.

For this to happen, the nation’s media must endorse, support and promote only those matters and subjects that are for the national advantage and minimise external social influences that are contrary to Australia’s heritage, national lifestyle, character and psyche. ROBERT S. BUICK,

Mountain Creek.