What a stupid mob of traitors do we have in power basically sabotaging our one proud country.
Copied from ABC news:
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has taken aim at the Federal Government for bypassing local firms to award contracts to overseas companies.
He says that under "value for money" criteria, the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) has gone with a foreign company rather than Adelaide company Rossi to make 100,000 pairs of boots for the Australian military.
The five-year deal is worth about $15 million.
ST391GQ said
06:40 PM Jul 15, 2014
Rossi are a bloody good workboot too. Speaking from experience too...after owning a few pairs of them over the years (n Don't ask how many either ...coz I got no flamin idea !!)
Cheers Keith
-- Edited by ST391GQ on Tuesday 15th of July 2014 06:41:24 PM
Dougwe said
07:15 AM Jul 16, 2014
It's getting harder to find a Assie Made product on the shelf these days anyway
NeilandRaine said
07:34 AM Jul 16, 2014
British Aerospace service the RAAF aircraft
Qantas aircraft are serviced off shore
The list goes on.................. not just this Government but both just care about the budget not the country
Big Gorilla said
08:43 AM Jul 16, 2014
Saw an article on TV the other night about K-Mart. Virtually all of their clothing and some other stock is source in China.
Neil, not all Qantas maintenance is done overseas, most is done here. What is done overseas is the heavy maintenance because Qantas don't have the engineering facilities to do it here. They do have a heavy maintenance facility at Avalon to service the 747 but as that aircraft s being phased out and the cost to convert the facility for other aircraft such as A380 is not economically viable. You can't build a multi million dollar facility to service a handful of aircraft, so that facility will or has closed..
valiant81 said
08:48 AM Jul 16, 2014
Hi all;
I have to agree with you all!!!!! The only only thing left for us is unemployment and thanks to our so called governments, this looks like the ' new growth industry'.
rockylizard said
09:26 AM Jul 16, 2014
NeilandRaine wrote:
British Aerospace service the RAAF aircraft Qantas aircraft are serviced off shore The list goes on.................. not just this Government but both just care about the budget not the country
Gday...
There are many companies servicing RAAF aircraft apart from British Aerospace. Part of the contract when aircraft are purchased, or leased, by RAAF include the requirement for the company to establish an "Australian footprint", employ Australian technicians and embed RAAF personnel in their workforce for training and skill transference.
In most cases, whilst the companies are "overseas" companies they employ a considerable Australian skilled workforce and service the aircraft within Australia.
The Pilatus PC9 Training Aircraft (about 64 aircraft) are serviced by Airflite in Australia - an Australian company again employing a considerable skilled Australian workforce.
Cheers - John
[edit: rocky can't spell]
-- Edited by rockylizard on Wednesday 16th of July 2014 09:29:00 AM
What a stupid mob of traitors do we have in power basically sabotaging our one proud country.
Copied from ABC news:
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has taken aim at the Federal Government for bypassing local firms to award contracts to overseas companies.
He says that under "value for money" criteria, the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) has gone with a foreign company rather than Adelaide company Rossi to make 100,000 pairs of boots for the Australian military.
The five-year deal is worth about $15 million.
Rossi are a bloody good workboot too. Speaking from experience too...after owning a few pairs of them over the years (n Don't ask how many either ...coz I got no flamin idea !!)
Cheers Keith
-- Edited by ST391GQ on Tuesday 15th of July 2014 06:41:24 PM
It's getting harder to find a Assie Made product on the shelf these days anyway
Qantas aircraft are serviced off shore
The list goes on.................. not just this Government but both just care about the budget not the country
Saw an article on TV the other night about K-Mart. Virtually all of their clothing and some other stock is source in China.
Neil, not all Qantas maintenance is done overseas, most is done here. What is done overseas is the heavy maintenance because Qantas don't have the engineering facilities to do it here. They do have a heavy maintenance facility at Avalon to service the 747 but as that aircraft s being phased out and the cost to convert the facility for other aircraft such as A380 is not economically viable. You can't build a multi million dollar facility to service a handful of aircraft, so that facility will or has closed..
Hi all;
I have to agree with you all!!!!! The only only thing left for us is unemployment and thanks to our so called governments, this looks like the ' new growth industry'.
Gday...
There are many companies servicing RAAF aircraft apart from British Aerospace. Part of the contract when aircraft are purchased, or leased, by RAAF include the requirement for the company to establish an "Australian footprint", employ Australian technicians and embed RAAF personnel in their workforce for training and skill transference.
In most cases, whilst the companies are "overseas" companies they employ a considerable Australian skilled workforce and service the aircraft within Australia.
The Pilatus PC9 Training Aircraft (about 64 aircraft) are serviced by Airflite in Australia - an Australian company again employing a considerable skilled Australian workforce.
Cheers - John
[edit: rocky can't spell
]
-- Edited by rockylizard on Wednesday 16th of July 2014 09:29:00 AM