One hundred years ago, Australia had what was called the "White Australia Policy". It was an policy that was aimed at severely restricting immigration from Asia and the Orient due to the belief that the Yellow Hordes would overwhelm the majority British population and take white peoples' jobs.

One hundred years later, we still restrict immigration from these areas, but our politicians have overseen the emigration of our manufacturing industries - the major source of employment for those who do not have the skill or will to attend university - to Asia and the Orient. We even go so far as to dig great big holes in our land and transport the spoil from the holes by the ship-load to Korea and Japan. It comes back to us as Toyotas and Hyundais.

So we have a great pool of under-educated young people whose best chance of some sort of employment is flipping burgers in a franchise of a US restaurant (?) chain. Our trade schools are closing due to lack of student numbers because there are no jobs for trades people. Automation is killing off jobs in the warehousing and logistics areas. We are becoming a nation of domestic servants.

The biggest joke on us is that we export all the raw materials to make iron and steel, but can't at least smelt iron here because the Environmentalists make a song and dance about the amount of carbon dioxide we would produce it we did it here. Producing it in Korea or Japan produces just as much, plus there is the extra bit produced during transport. Yet again, we don't do any processing of the millions of bales of wool we export annually. We could recover tonnes of top-soil and lanolin if we at least washed the wool here instead of sending it greasy to overseas manufacturers.

It is even so bad that General Motors, which has produced motor vehicle in Australia since 1949, and Ford, have announced that they are withdrawing from motor vehicle manufacture here in 2016. Since 1949, the Holden make of car, produced by General Motors-Holden, has been called "Australia's Car". One of Australia's post-war traditions has been the rivalry between Holden and Ford. That'll go now. Our children will only know sake suckers.

OME