[Ash W]

Originally Posted by Owen H

NickN, do you understand how hypocritical you are being?

On one thread you are bagging Qantas for "raping" the Australian public with its fares, saying that we should have cheaper fares, but on this one you are accusing them of not doing the right thing by Aussies and sending the jobs overseas.

You want cheap airfares, you need the cheaper labour provided by these foreign countries.

It is this attitude that has seen Australian industries go to the wall... people are prepared to shout down a company for sending its workforce overseas, but are not prepared to shell out the extra few bucks that would make up for the additional cost of keeping the labour in Australia.

Dick Smith's efforts are a great example of that... a company that is Australian owned, with Australian employees, selling similar products (such as the matches), but it doesn't take off, because the Aussie public still go for the cheapest price they can get.

Well said and exactly the point I was getting at. We in Aust want to keep our jobs, keep our quality of life, but are unwilling to pay for it through higher prices.