Albanese invokes 'Team Australia' in pitch to buy local after Trump tariffs
The PM suggests Australians should buy local goods instead of American ones ahead of a federal budget expected to have an "Australian-made" theme.
buy local? your kidding we dont actually MAKE anything here.
We do it's just more "boutique"
There are still people making clothes but they usually only do small orders. There are still people making doors and windows, greengrocers and butchers still exist. It is a little more pricey but if we all shifted to locally made and owned then a lot of necessary manufacturing would move back to Australia.
They can continue making the garbage I don't need and don't buy overseas.
It doesn't have to be "buy local", per se, it just has to be "buy non-US". But there are few tangible things I actually buy from the US. I don't mind stuff from the EU, it's a little pricey due to our exchange rate, but for the things I buy it's generally OK.
There are heaps of services that are bought from the US though - just about every streaming service, Google/Apple, Starlink, and so on. Those can fuck right off , if possible. Sometimes that's not practical (eg google/apple's ecosystem), but at least have a look for alternatives.
"He [Dutton] should be backing Australia, rather than backing the Trump administration"
Ironic considering Dutton is so patriotic when it comes to Australia Day stuff.
I don't understand it. If I was a politician right now, I would not, under any circumstances, hitch my political wagon to the shitshow that is going on in the US. But Dutton and that "Trumpet of Patriots" crowd - bless their 1950's White Australia hearts - are all for it.
Labor would be wise to stall the election for a month or two, just to let things unfold a bit more over there.
I'm absolutely disgusted that we've announced we're just going to grab our ankles and back up for this. Similarly with Canada backing down on its electricity tariffs. All these world leaders bowing and grovelling at the feet of this imbecilic dictator are just validating him and it's only going to make him worse, which in turn makes everything worse. The rest of the world needs to unite and stand firm against trump.
That's the problem with countries being run by responsible adults. They tend to think of the interests of the country instead of petty payback and point scoring. It is a shame the US didn't elect such a person. Idiots try and drag you down to their level.
Tariffs raise domestic prices and the price of inputs for local industry. The US economy and it's citizens are being punished enough by Trump's stupidity.
Also the real prize for us is the export markets the US will be losing. When the US pushed their LNP stooge Scott Morrison into pissing off China, US exporters picked up billions of export business at our expense. Time to return the favour before Dutton does a repeat.
Australian companies like Alumina won't have any problems selling their product elsewhere. But feels weird that nobody is talking about how this broke AUSFTA. Are there no consequences for backing out of fully ratified international agreements?
Probably not the smartest thing to say when everyones being squeezed to make ends meet.
We're really going to have Dutton for PM aren't we..
I don't think so/I hope not. As someone already pointed out he's a fascist - and wants to be an Aus Trump. People here, mostly, don't want that. So by appealing to Australians he looks better. And also said basically 'Trump is stoopid & these tariffs are dumb'. So win-win.
I don't know. By asking Australians to make up their own mind about what they purchase over trying to bring tariffs in retaliation hopefully it will draw less ire from the the US.
Plus most staple goods are primarily Aussie made and manufactured (bread, milk etc.). So asking to think about Aussie produced products it won't massively increase the cost of living (hopefully).
No I know, I'm personally going to boycott American products.
I just feel like it would appeal more if he imposed retaliatory tariffs, I know that the situation is more nuanced than that and we'd be stooping to the Oompa loompas level.
But I'm just hoping this doesn't give off the impression that Albanese is spineless with the upcoming election because we actually cannot afford to have another Liberal government in power so soon.
god i hope not. he wants to ban protesting. he's a textbook fascist :/