The Liberal Party should make a rowing boat their logo. Sitting on their arse going backwards is all they are about

Talk about a fumble. Aus governments past and present could have made Australia rich beyond measure if they simply nationalised the minerals

Tax the multis!!

Build some factories so Liberal Governments can close them down in future. Potatohead flew 13 hours each way to spend an hour at Gina's birthday during a cliff-hanging by-election. What else could they do? It's a quarry all the way down from here on in.

Australia can afford to spend 1 trillion on infrastructure & buying back foreign owned industry, build public housing & even fund a space programme if the government had the balls. And foreign owned companies should be taxed on turnover , not profit, there are too many loopholes.

We should use the commons of our resources to replicate the Norway model. They saved up a motza of cash now every Norweed citizens a millionaire,

When the "Clean energy fund" was used to finance coal 😢

Perhaps they could make a housing department again.

This country has forgotten how to make things. We are a mine and a farm and not much else. The idea is a good one but from past expeience, it will never happen. Business wants a quick profit with as little effort and risk as possible.

Whose idea was it to sell everything off in the first place, we used to be a can do country before we gave what we had built ourselves away.

Imagine if the world just taxed the rich the same as everyone else.... the world wouldnt fight. Everyonr would be chill

Politicians promising something??? I'll believe it when I see it.

Well said, have to do something, we've become a hopelessly non-technical nation incapable of making anything.

More manufacturing in Australia!

The government should have started to value add decades ago, if not centuries ago.

How dare Labor invest in the future of this country and its people, how dare they! Imagine, a political party that has confidence in the ability of its own people to tackle the future, balderdash!

Battery prices to drop another 50% this year, range extending significantly, the weekend is safe. Tony Seba mapped this out a decade ago. We used to be a global software powerhouse in the 80s and 90s until we bought only from our global masters. Imagine where we could have been today with focused stimulus instead of lining fossil grifters who would have invested anyway and made handsome profits regardless

Peter let me ask gina before i comment.

Excellent comment on a smart strategy by our brave Government. Doing something instead of nothing.

The LNP destroyed Australian manufacturing. Howard and his cronies sided with Multi-Nationals and sold our manufacturing overseas by making it too expensive to develop technologies or refine raw materials at home. We assisted China by: sending them all of our raw commodities, refusing to help our developing solar energy industry and our wind farm industry who found funding, resources and manufacturing facilities in China. The subsidies for coal and gas went into overdrive and investment into renewables dried up. The wheels began moving during the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years but once again....now under Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison, inaction on manufacturing, renewables, value adding to our exploding raw commodities market vanished. Replaced by short term, quick turnaround profits and we didn't share that 'commonwealth'. We, the LNP Coalition Government, the gutless government made up of two parties who could never win an election without the others backing....we followed the old Johnny Howard script to perfection. "We're not about telling business what to do. We'll get out of their way and just look after the taxation system which unfairly focuses mostly on the middle and low income earners. Thereby funding the country as we see fits best within our lobbyists interests. We'll fund Private Health, Private Schools, Private Aged Care and underfund the matching public systems as they're not making us any profit!" What a country!? The fact there are people who still believe the LNP are "good economic managers" is insane. They must have an inexhaustible amount of Kool aid to top them up. It's a shame it's not the same Kool aid used at Jonestown, Guyana.

Nationalize all energy and mining, works for the Arabs and Norway. Albo setting up value you added manufacturing? Those clowns, you have got to be kidding. To manufacture we need economic adjustments, the cost of living need be brought down so that wages can be lower and world competitive without losing current spending power. Government provides cheap power from energy exports, like Libya before they bombed it. Housing boom has to be stopped dead and prices need retreat etc. Bureaucrats handing out subsidies doesn't work.

Sky news was providing a right wing anti government,anti police platform in the comments section when they reported the church attack. Appalling

That last comment "It's better to do something rather than nothing" ✔️ The old insult of "Do-gooder" springs to mind. When I hear this I ask whether the options of doing bad or nothing are preferable

wont stop hoping ! thanks mate!

An industry policy no doubt about giving a helping hand to groups who donate to us or those that have headquarters in marginal seats.

Jeezus! We have been saying this since the late 80's...what a novel and refreshing idea! Start with bringing Aluminium smelting back.

Let's give a billion dollars to some mob to make solar panels, yeah sure Labor.

About time, 'A made in Australia Act' I am all for it, better late that never. Onya Westy, talking sense again, good on Elbo to for having a go. I have children working for Chevron in WA, Australian taxpayers are being ripped off when it comes to Gas and oil... and the Liberals moved refining oil to Singapore, wot a rip off that is! This country is missing out on huge profits, the multi nationals pay no tax... only the workers pay tax.

The risk is getting our power generation and distribution right. We are not going to compete in the technology space or in labour costs and processing machinery manufacturing, the light on the hill will be energy costs in a post fossil fuel world. The industries to target will be energy intensive raw material processing. The big players in that sector now are countries that import most of their energy in the form of fossil fuel. If we do get back into raw material processing, then the energy production and the processing need to be done as close as possible to the source of the raw material because transport will become a higher cost area. I worry about how many private entities there are in out electricity production, supply, and retail and all of them want to make a profit.

Help me understand this. If a company lobbies to get the government to build new infrastructure that the company wants to manage for us, but the company isn't willing to put their own money into the yhe project, is that what they call "rent seeking"?

They should introduce a bill where former politicians and former staffers to politicians aren’t allowed to work for the news

Thanks, well said

Another great video to keep in bookmarks for the election and Twitter and Threads.

The so called WE don't do anything, corporations do, WE just whinge.

Australia has had all the opportunities in the world, and it threw it all away.

OK professor West 😂😂😂

Because the market has delivered us such low power prices.

South Australia went totally renewables and has to get half of its electricity from Victorian coal power stations.

This guy is living in some sort of parallel universe delivered in a serious I am the only one who really knows what's going on kind of seriousness.

It's easy to pick the trendy projects and hitch a wagon to something that is already rolling along... there needs to be more government funding of some form to actually develop industries with huge potential from the small one they are today. Sometimes, just being the key customer can make something work n a practical sense, as well as an arms-length long-term investor...

The worst part, to me, is that the Solar tech was researched here but when it was time to move from research to manufacture they couldn't do it here, so it was bought by China and they commercialised it. I don't know which Gov was in power when that happened, instinct points me towards an LNP one but that might not be the case. Whatever the case is to compete with the low wages in China, or other developing countries, it would require subsidies of some sort to make it competitive. I remember hearing about some tariff the EU was considering based on how much CO2 was used to produce the product. There's only so much I can keep track of, I don't know if it became a law or not. When something like that becomes standard for international trade Australia can be THE winner, but only if we've got a green grid in place in time. If everything manufactured, here, was made with solar power our higher wages should be offset by whatever the tariff is on the CO2. It still boggles my mind that it's "cheaper" so ship the raw materials from us to China and then buy back the steel or the finished product. It's only cheaper from a currency perspective, as a cost to the planet it's high, but you've got to zoom out further to see the cost that way, it isn't measured in a fiat currency when you zoom out that far.

With large scale industries and resources the tax should be based on the value of what was removed or what was sold. Not based on fancy profit disguising techniques. Eg. apple pays tax on what products and services consumed in Aus, not sneaking debt reduced profits. Same should go for every company removing our resources, all Australian citizens should have a right to have that value be used to improve lives in our country.

Wonderful WE can do everything that big corporations do without lifting a finger, costing anything and risking nothing, where do I sign up ?

At least they are having a go, unlike the other wreckers.

I will never understand the natural gas deal,who ever agreed to that was a criminal. That arrangement is borderline traitorous. Those contracts need to be re written this year.

A good start would be to force Government Dept's to buy Australian as the first choice. No good expecting everyone else to do it if they don't.

Hey Micheal I reckon' you should say "for free" after plugging your website. I think when most people think of online news they automatically think of a paywall.

Dismissal of nuclear is a mistake. We need some form of heavy baseline power to replace coal and gas that sits alongside renewables, we want to be able to engage in heavy power use for IT and manufacturing so we don't become rent-seekers in the 21st and 22nd centuries. If you don't come to the table then we'll get some form of nuclear power run by maximum profit, minimum maintenance private companies. What the Greens should be doing is, instead of dismissing or resisting nuclear, is to ensure that a strongly regulated, transparent and heavily over-sighted nuclear program that isn't left to dodgy corporations is put in place. Make sure we get reliable nuclear built by experienced companies from experienced countries like Canada or Europe etc and not allow bargain basement third world conjobs build something that is going to be a liability. Get in early, pull it out of the hands of the Liberals and make sure it is done right.

Which government got anything right?

Some of you labor lovers need to realistically look at how we can actually keep not export or coal and gas offshore if you want cheaper energy prices, that and nuclear is the honest way forward but net zero is the current thing so carry on…… let’s see how it goes in a decade 😉

Can't make much when the privatised energy charges the highest prices in the world. Imagine how much it costs to run a 50kv 3 phase lathe

1:50 source? My power bill has risen despite all these claims of ‘cheap’ renewables.

Was that last three minutes the Coaltion's poliices?

Turnbull looks at Dutton and sees a thug. When I look at Dutton I see Freddy Kruger

Big corporations don't make big profits, their shareholders do, everyone else who is too terrified to invest miss out, yeah that's most of you.

I reckon' you should say "for free" after plugging your website Micheal. I think when most people think of online news they generally think of it being locked behind a paywall, or littered with ads.

Did ya see the Alinta energy boss talking about how it’s not their fault power prices are increasing?

I wonder how much of OUR export iron ore gets turned into weapons and munitions.

LNP. Let's dig it out of the ground, that will get us through for the next 4 years.

Are you sure that net zero us a winner and electricity prices are coming down?? Or dis i miss the sarcasm?

I reckon' you should say "for free" after plugging your website Micheal. I think when most people think of online news they automatically think of it being locked behind a paywall, or littered with ads.

When have govts got anything right?

Hydrogen production is the future, Australia needs to get ahead of the game this time.

Manufacturing in Australia? Is anyone thinking of how unstable world we live in ? Energy needed . And where is it ? In the Middle East.

Renewables can never supply enough energy on there own

Australia had all the opportunities to become the greatest country in the world, and it threw them all away.

Remember when Alan Carpenter told Chevron to pay up to go home. Yeah they paid up. That is why WA isn’t getting as done over as the Eastern states on power prices. How’s the privatised power network going over there? sounds so neoliberal, must be working great!

Imagine Albo running a big resources company, we need females and gays only working a one day week with six months annual leave.

Taxing mining can pay for pretty much anything the Australian people need. Why not try that

The only word Dutton seems to know is "no". Australia does need to value add to our export products, otherwise as you say we are just a mine and a farm for the rest of the world. The proposal to manufacture solar panels and other components in Australia is a great idea, it will however need ongoing support from government to succeed. The costs of manufacture in Australia will make it impossible to compete with industries in countries such as China on price, so all new solar farms should be required to use Australian made panels, and household solar can still utilise more cost effective imports.

Cities are the number one generators of wealth in the world. It therefore follows that we should be building more cities. But in a sustainable way using environmentally friendly planning. We could build such cities - even Gina Rinehart is a fan, although she wont put any of the money her dad left her behind her statements. She just wants tax breaks. But new cities could be built. And migration issues alleviated at the same time. Thats whats really required - and a place for the wealthy to put their minimally taxed passive wealth instead of just pumping it into housing.

Just another talk fest. I am 67 years old and first heard about decentralisation and growth of regional towns when I was in Year 6 ! The example given was Bathurst / Orange. Since then Email in Orange that used to make Electrical meters and Kelvinator fridges - gone. Edgells that used to be major cannery in Bathurst now downsized owned by a Simplot a US multi national and importing many ingredients. The problem is the political parties have no real power ( or do not use it) in stopping private enterprise decisions to go offshore. Even things that area in the Government control fail to get outside the 'Canberra Bubble' - for example Customs Coastwatch, where do you think their staff sit? Canberra - I did not know that Lake Burley Griffin is a major smuggling port. Why is this not in newcastle, Geelong, Wollongong, Broome?

Fuck subsidies, fuck private investment, I want public ownership of industry.

Labor will balls it up, remember the insulation debacle.

Well the existing system is not exactly benefiting everyone. We are totally dependent on China for nearly everything. It is worth a try, but I wonder where we are going to get the people to make things. This requires actual work.

Who is this wonderful WE, oh you mean someone else as long as you don't have to pay for it.

solar on homes not paddocks

Hey Michael @michaelwestmedia Mate you’ve got a whopping 3 minute silence gap at the end of your clip.

Lucky country think we are most stupid country 🙄 if China 🇨🇳 or eroup had the natural resources 😅

Buy shares mate!

We need to open the market too export more Australian beef & also more local sales. Stop importing meat. We got all the meat in Australia

Make Australia Great Again! MAGA policy 🤣

This wonderful We must be pretty good according to the comments and it wouldn't cost us residents anything to undertake these massive investments, oh another flying pig just flew past.

Made in Aust = self sufficiency = preparation for war

Create more jobs through manufacturing? This is not the 1950s. I’m no Liberal voter, but this sounds ridiculous.

LNP nuclear dreams..how to lose an election par excellence..keep going Dutton!

I doubt anything will come from it Solarex BP Solar tried to make panels in Au in early late 1990-2000s went nowhere

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Energy bills to drop in July!!😂😂😂

5:59 - 9:34 Valid liberal talking points

Amazing news. This will be the first useful thing Albo has done if he gets it passed. Hell, I'll actually vote at the next election if he can do this.

Thank Gawd for Labor... moving the country forward to renewables. Let's hope we get 4 terms and the Greens don't undermine Labor again. *On all the big ticket policies.*

How about Moral Investments ?

Any industry that is subsidised is not an industry at all. It is a utility. The only business that should be nurtured is small local business. BIG GOVERNMENT is the end of humankind! 🤠

The idea we need to ‘value add’ is poorly understood. Value add is determined by the productivity of workers not what they make. The average miner in Australia earns more than the average Boeing employee. The average barista in Australia earns more than an employee in a solar panel plant in China. If you believe the Government has a role in picking winners where does it stop? Should they direct capital into preferred departments stores, supermarkets, auto manufacturing or only the things leftists prefer to be subsidised.

You mean Labor giving corporations billions to manufacture in Australia, great idea for a future bankrupted country.

Try and recount everything Made in Australia that we’ve in the last 20 years. Painful.

Westie wants to float a new company onto the ASX, Westies Commie Investments Limited, capital raising anytime soon, don't miss out Commie Capitalists.

While I agree with most of what you are saying. EV's in Australia isn't the answer. The Co2 that goes into producing EVs makes the time for parity with ICE about 10 years. Also the average Australian car produces 2 t of Co2 per year. Each house procedures about 4t. The nation would be far better off moving Australian homes to battery and solar 1st than $120k 3.5t cars (also the damage to the roads and the Co2 created to fix them, abd the fact it will take at least 35 years to move every car in Australia to EV if ICE cars topped importing today).

we make nothing in AUS and nothing is coming back until they reintroduce tariffs or crater the dollar and turn AUS into an economic third world country so nothing is happening. all you gave us was more dig it up and sell it but keep more of the profit, that's not an industry plan that's more of the same maybe better but not it's not bringing back manufacturing