‘It’s too expensive’: Rowan Dean says ‘you can’t make a Mars bar in this country’

Sky News host Rowan Dean says “you can’t make a Mars bar in this country” anymore.
“It’s too expensive,” Mr Dean said.
“Mars have gone ‘we can’t afford the energy here, we can’t afford the wages here, we can’t do business here, we’re going to go off to other countries around the world where we can make Mars bars’.
“That is the reality of Labor’s Future Made in Australia … manufacturing disappearing from Australia.”

[@bmultimate1One]

This country is a total joke . Australia urgently needs a leader, a government with foresight and courage to rebuild our institutions, infrastructure and manufacturing base with policies that encourage innovation, business investment, employment growth, and low energy costs, and also and eliminate over regulation and wasteful spending .

[@youtube.commentator]

Yeah, you have aboriginals living there

[@user-pj5ub5cp9k]

Feel free to leave.

[@bmultimate1One]

@@user-pj5ub5cp9k is that your solution to fix this country?

[@dorothycutler5539]

Vote One Nation

[@Prognosis__]

@@bmultimate1OneJack hasn’t anything of intelligence to add on here

[@LoveBagpipes]

Absolutely true, Australia is absolutely fucked

[@ray-jg1pc]

only because we allowed it

[@derekmottley3656]

​@@ray-jg1pc Enough of "we"... Apparently, YOU voted Labor... I did not !

[@TBird89]

Ain’t the ‘‘lucky country’’anymore

[@bunyip250]

@@TBird89 That expression is media misinformation because they never say the second part. "A lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share that luck". It's from a book The Lucky Country written in the sixties, check it out.

[@TBird89]

@@bunyip250 thanks legend.

[@Pedroaghyu]

Self inflicted pain, Australians voted for labour and in doing so the demise of all off us

[@truckerlifebc]

It would not not make any difference if liberal got voted back in it would be the same.

[@briananderson7285]

Labor/ Lib same team, same policies. Vote One Nation.

[@skids3048]

Voting 😂

[@connorduke4619]

To be fair we also voted for Green and Teal lunacy, with full enthusiasm!

[@Dark01978]

I voted one nation last time, Australian need to hit rock bottom before they work this out. I'll be voting the same again

[@user-oy2fw9pw4s]

Why are we bringing people into this country when we wont be manufacturing anything soon in this country,

[@sallycent6598]

Also this Labor government is bringing the wrong people to this country.

[@JP-ry9ob]

Bc our trade 'partners' demand we take their people also. One way road.

[@mwallace2922]

Immigration is a Ponzi scheme.

[@KenshinPhoenix]

My rent has gone up $160 a week in the last year, yet the wages have gone up a few bucks a week. Disgusting. I don't buy anything anymore unless I need it.

[@R0d_1984]

Buy power has gropped 300% in the last 10 years

[@jimijamesjowitt]

I waste money all the time. No point in investing in anything these days. Never enough to save. The prices just go up to match your savings

[@bettymarshall2702]

Thanks Labor Party for bringing in nearly a million immigrants.

[@KenshinPhoenix]

@@bettymarshall2702 Yep, that has really screwed us over. Sydney is the middle east now.

[@derekmottley3656]

​@@bettymarshall2702 Over a million since they were elected this term

[@FreeFreeFrankenstein]

🇺🇸🇦🇺 💯! SICK & TIRED OF EVERYTHING BEING MADE CHEAPLY IN CHINA! FJB!

[@mamanoneyall51]

And Pakistan, India, Mexico ..check the box..Wal-Mart sells women's down there medicine cream made in Pakistan. And even if said on packaging made in America, assembled in America..the ingredients, or parts, or materials can be from anywhere else but America..its a work around..

[@Peace.Please144]

That's the Greedy side of Capitalism PROFITS.

[@qpw62043]

Noticed Corona Mexican beer now made in China 😂

[@Peace.Please144]

Big Business chasing Profits.

[@user-lo3eu9it2b]

do people really understand the system behind?US deep state sold you all "white" people,you think you belong to the group?think again.deep state took all our hard earned,we are like free range slave,btw,from the day USD de link with gold,the so called "Made in xxx" is on the way to demolish,you can't print money to spend all over the world on one hand,and not expect trade deficit on the other hand,USD hedgemony means you always have more $ goes out than $ coming in,thats how others obtain USD through trade,you don't hand USD to others for free.This is so easy life compare to manufacturing,thats the real reason manufacturing dies in AngloSaxon countries.Trump couldn't bring back,how can Aussie bring back,who wants to take the 1st paycut,without high wage,no immigrants coming here to pay PAYG tax,it's still ok without immigrants if locals increase birth rate,irth rate is way to low to sustain.

[@Eric-jo8uh]

Labor and Liberal are way past their use by dates. All we’ve heard from these two parties is inane jaw flap, no constructive policies for the future, stupid smart Alec comments thrown at each other…immature to say the least. One Nation for me thanks.

[@vivrowe2763]

It's all too late, and this is not going to stop the WEF plan because people have fallen for the climate smash up of this country.

[@tombradshaw5164]

One nation for me too! The Uniparty needs to get out of our lives, and stay out.

[@shelleyrenee4889]

❤ "Insane Jaw Flaps"!

[@johnoneill8426]

All under the direction of the UN, WEF.

[@R0d_1984]

John has a brain...

[@bvon5630]

and WHO

[@R0d_1984]

@@bvon5630 Yes but the WHO, is part of the UN, you could add the IMF...

[@williamsmith6]

Socialism is great isn’t it 😂

[@lesleycollis7520]

BIG JOKE

[@timbrandis1151]

Until you run out of other peoples' money. (Margaret Thatcher)

[@kalidesu]

Yeah it's clearly climate change, lets change everything to electric power so if we get large solar storms, it knocks out our electricity grid. We are so smart. Diesel, coal and sparrows are a thing of the past. :|

[@qpw62043]

​@timbrandis1151 Then the Victorian government will just show their true communist selves and forcibly confiscate people's personal wealth.

[@TBird89]

Hopefully the communists in Victoria vote for a change away from the current form and the banana benders up north get rid the of that anti Olympics, change names of everything but not spend money on youth crime the spastic Myles and the NSW is run by nobody, never see a politician fighting for any of their local seats. All have disappeared 🪄🪄💫💨

[@robertcoyte3243]

Smaller government please

[@nav_man]

In essence "This is hate speech" -Govt

[@seandelap8587]

The world needs Donald Trump to sort out all this insanity

[@user-pj5ub5cp9k]

You're Irish and you support the Provisional IRA murderers of the innocent Australian civilians Stephen Melrose and Nick Spanos. You support terrorists, your opinion is worthless.

[@vivrowe2763]

No, they are all going to look after themselves.

[@DeanandLisa1803]

Yep in his old man jocks 😂

[@evil17]

Are you serious? What is he going to do? If thats what we are relying on then we are definitely all fucked.

[@vivrowe2763]

@@evil17 Well people are when they rely on man to fix what is happening worldwide. Their plans are going very fast and are not stopping for anyone.

[@user-ib2jn4pj8k]

This country is a total joke .

[@FallenAngel-he5ko]

ive never seen so much theft and ppl putting food back on the shelf as now. my small town never had any homeless ppl until now theres many in tents and begging for money to buy food. Australia's future is very grim. i work 43 hours a week and can barely afford to eat. meat is just too expensive aforget making mars bars coz the average jo just cant afford one. for example i watched the price of a slab of home brand water in 2020 go from $3.50 to now $9.50. how can anyone justify that. 2ltr pepsi go from $1.80 to now $3.60. when will this stop. enough is enough

[@vivrowe2763]

There is no future in Australia anymore.

[@FallenAngel-he5ko]

@@vivrowe2763 its so sad to see it this way and i lay my head down exhausted from work n i worry for my kids future.

[@davidcruse6589]

When the f#ckheads vote out Labor greens teals as their all responsible for this It's all happening under their watch as their demands and policies causing it Renewable power and fuel are the two main drivers

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Southern hemisphere nations need to start manufacturing again and drop the green crap

[@derekmottley3656]

​@@jimijamesjowitt This won't happen so long as voters keep voting 'woke' candidates thinking it's all gonna come for free.

[@Scaliad]

Somehow, government thinks it can just spend its way out of debt...

[@davidcruse6589]

Well when you've never had a job or earn your money Why wouldn't they think spending is the answer The only thing they do is have to put up with criticism Now they don't even want to do that and censorship you

[@R0d_1984]

They know what they are doing, destroy the ecomony, after enough ppl are starving, they will expect anything, all marxist take-over use the same script

[@MattyEngland]

It means more national interest to Israel, and that makes the governments controllers very happy.

[@derekmottley3656]

​@@MattyEngland How so ? Me thinks you speak with forked tongue.

[@brotherd89]

The fastest way to deindustrialise a country is to follow the climate grift making energy so expensive it is not economically viable for industry to function

[@moopius]

And to make so many hoops to jump through that it isn't worth starting a business.

[@TheHandymanQld]

"Made in Australia" ... what about 'Product of Australia?"

[@LoveBagpipes]

New tag "sold in Australia" 😂

[@secondchance6603]

@@LoveBagpipes 'Sold out in Australia'

Well you did give a Billion dollars to GM which they happily took and promptly shut down the plants and ran. Why would this be any different? It's other peoples money.

[@mikeoz4803]

Its a Uni party. Both Libs & Labor have sent us broke!! VOTE One Nation

[@robertfonovic3551]

One Nation will never be in government. Are you wasting your vote? I will vote Liberal in the hope that they wake up.

[@mikeoz4803]

@@robertfonovic3551 I think its you who needs to WAKE UP

[@kidsoxoxox]

Size of Government in economy totally out of control, approximately 5% late 19th century, +40% in 2024. Exponentially growing number of Laws, regulations, unions, legions of government bureaucrats. Federation has been a economic and social catastrophe for the Australasian states. New Zealand was wise not to join in 1901.

[@rickthelian2215]

Happy Mother’s Day💐 No more Mars Bars for me!

[@XBootlicker]

It's not Mars fault. It's the Elites fault.

[@evil17]

Or is it “Happy Family Day” now?

[@maisies927]

Sounds like American politicians.

[@Prognosis__]

Mars is a global company. The CEO couldn’t give a toss where the chocolate is made as long as it makes billions in profits. If you eat chocolate, buy Australian made and is owned by Australians

[@bm5906]

and only eat chocolate grown in Australia.

[@YouChwb]

The chocolate is OK, its the bar inside which is nothing but artificial sweeteners. Even Snickers bars do not taste as good as they used to. That is why you can buy 20 mini bars for $5, as you get what you pay for.

[@ItsMe-my7sz]

Boosting Australian manufacturing is no-doubt a smart move. But trying to enter a low-tech energy-intensive field, ie china’s specialty, is beyond moronic.

[@user-xo4rx8ov5o]

Thank god I don't work outside home, you're working for petrol prices

[@maxrockatanksyOG]

Well, you can thank Unions for wanting mining wages to make things here (lile cars etc). This country has become an arsebackwards backwater

[@derekmottley3656]

Yes it has & yes they did. This goes back to Hawke. Easy for a gov worker to criticise one's employer for not turning up to work because of ..... A fn boat race ?

[@Gough-jf9zf]

12.2% of all Aussie workers are in a union. They're not exactly influential. But if you think wages are too high, I know nobody will see you complaining about the cost of living. Every Aussie worker will have mountains of cash left over every fortnight.

[@phillipsmith4501]

It wouldn't matter Mars bars are only a fraction of the size at the dearer price so I won't even bother anymore

[@secondchance6603]

They use to be 100g now they're 45g.

[@thilagadebeyer2559]

I was a supermarket merchandiser back in 2019 - the snickers and mars packaging was different.. looked cheaper.. my boss said "Oh its coming from China" I was like what the hell. How can this great country not make its own choc bars. Like how and why? Who ok's this stuff? But I read the manufacturing was brought back to Ballarat - am not sure if this was a temporary thing - gotta look at the wrappers next time to confirm this - do my own investigation

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Hope they don't use the same gutter oil!

[@dorothykennett2606]

High wages, high energy costs, crippling taxes on small business...not rocket science!

[@derekmottley3656]

CEO's

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@dorothykennett2606 You think Mars is a small business? if your wages are too high, why not tithe some of them each week, straight into the poor box?

[@dorothykennett2606]

@@Gough-jf9zf I think you missed the point.

[@johnwx25]

Patience! Trump is back in the White House 1/20/25.

[@dorothycutler5539]

Seems so far away

[@maxrockatanksyOG]

Trump won't help this country- Oz has fallen

[@smileydave3907]

Putins Puppet. Yeah Right.

[@johnwx25]

@maxrockatanksyOG Yes, he will. You all need to give him help by not electing liberals.

[@soloman4765]

Trump 😂 yes everyone's savior 😅

[@Vladimirleninputin]

Rita for PM ❤ She is wonderful in my thinking ❤

[@johnwx25]

Sad that the "men" are so weak that you have to elect females. Men are supposed to lead

[@bm5906]

All she seems to do is belittle people. She does not suggest solutions or improvements, which is what a leader should do.

[@Vladimirleninputin]

@@bm5906 a journalist shall report what happens, politicians should find solutions, when it's going badly Rita will tell us about it.

[@rayholstegge7603]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mdturnerinoz]

More Albo memes MUST HAPPEN! 🤡😡🤬 Apparently, Albo has NEVER listened to Peter Zeihan (Geopolitical expert). MANUFACTURING MUST come BACK to local countries, such as China, Germany, South Korea, etc., which are in demographic DECLINE!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

China, Germany and S Korea don't make enough?

[@Oracle550]

When we stopped manufacturing cars it was a red flag moment for our country ...downward path continues...Sadly I am actually thinking of leaving Australia,cant see it getting better

[@martinvanderhoek4363]

I am surprised that Labour isn’t fostering Australian Made “Pink Bats”!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Pink Batts _are_ Australian made, have been for decades. But why would a government advertise for private enterprise?

[@rodgerwarne5717]

The ACTU and the Labor party have priced out of the market. We were manufacturing nearly everything here in Australia.

[@xx-vw9ep]

Australia is like one giant California. 🏖

[@davidcruse6589]

No that's Victoria and Queensland going that way

[@derekmottley3656]

💩👉🤯

[@tomjones5338]

Where's John Hoyle were is Lucifer Black where's Dom pelle gone in hiding as usual

[@secondchance6603]

They ran out of infantile emoji's to laugh at their own comments.

[@derekmottley3656]

Lucille put in a cameo... 😂😂😂😂

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Perhaps some of Sky's stories are too twisted even for Lucy.

[@paulwary]

It’s not that you can’t make any profit. It’s that with low value added products you’re competing with countries with subsistence wages. So it’s a race to the bottom.

[@phredflypogger4425]

It's my understanding that the amount of manufacturing in Australia has become so small that it no longer constitutes an 'Industry'.

[@Lee-cc9jf]

Australia has smallest manufacturing sector in the OECD

[@robertfonovic3551]

However, we are awesome at digging holes !!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@Lee-cc9jf And are better for it. Helped make the device you posted on more affordable.

[@Lee-cc9jf]

@@Gough-jf9zf Completely reliant on an unstable global environment. Many people unemployed or in useless insignificant jobs. Should have atleast 1 car factory.

[@trishthompson5118]

Absolutely love you & the team Rowan ,truth truth & truth oozes from you all & it's a beautiful thing ❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤣Hapoy Mothers day to Rita & all of your lovely MOTHERS 🤣👍💐💐💐🌺🌺🌺🌻🌼🌸❤️

[@oldtimers6460]

The federal paperwork just to start a business, then the paperwork to run one is incredibly disabling in starting in the first place. Then there's the state and councils adding more paperwork as well, and costs. No wonder companies move overseas.

[@gordonflash8976]

I do not think the Australian public are wising up, I wish they were, but i cannot see it.

[@photohounds]

The Liebor DESTRUCTION of industry started with whitlam, specifically the electronics manufacturing industry.

[@joeybrown3583]

Correct. It was Gough Whitlam who locked us into the Lima Agreement of 1975, which initially launched Australia into the globalisation nightmare. Essentially, this declaration demanded that we hand over our resources, technology and wealth to so-called third world nations, even though the impoverishment of these nations was entirely due to the corruption cultured and installed by agencies operating behind the façade of the IMF and WB, who then opened the doors to corporate exploitation and destruction of indigenous economies and industries. (For the most expert witness/commentary on this behavior, read John Perkin's celebrated book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"). There is some debate over whether Whitlam understood the ramifications of the Lima Declaration. ALP stalwarts insist he saw only the helping of third world peoples, and was unaware of the wider agenda. Others point to his intellectual origins in the London School of Economics, along with Bob Hawke; the spawning grounds of Fabian Socialism. Only Gough knew who the real cur was and he is now safely dead. Regardless of who was the first traitor, it was Prime Minister Paul Keating who really put the skids under Australia and gave it the big push towards internationally regulated poverty.

[@timbrandis1151]

The rent seekers are lining up & salivating!

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

I can remember when the unions said grocery prices were too high and they were going to open a union chain to bring prices down. Guess what happened to that. Now we have union leaders and elites running the whole show! perhaps we should spell the word union as onion, it's enough to bring tears to anyone's eyes!

[@carolejohnston9294]

Never had jobs in the private sector..!!

[@andyjay9346]

Have you seen the size of Mars Bars these days? They're that tiny. Pitiful! If you had a hole in your tooth a Mars Bar would fall right in.

[@NS-ms5eg]

I can live without Mars bars.

[@purple-nq3zd]

Three words for you...China China China

[@vadersfather1248]

We were told it won’t be easy under albonese so it’s our fault

[@ce244]

Can't make a mars bar here because of energy costs, HTF do you expect to make STEEL then ? 😂

[@user-xc4rh5fi2r]

We don’t we import and pay China

[@joeybrown3583]

It was Gough Whitlam who locked us into the Lima Agreement of 1975, which initially launched Australia into the globalisation nightmare. Essentially, this declaration demanded that we hand over our resources, technology and wealth to so-called third world nations, even though the impoverishment of these nations was entirely due to the corruption cultured and installed by agencies operating behind the façade of the IMF and WB, who then opened the doors to corporate exploitation and destruction of indigenous economies and industries. (For the most expert witness/commentary on this behavior, read John Perkin's celebrated book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"). There is some debate over whether Whitlam understood the ramifications of the Lima Declaration. ALP stalwarts insist he saw only the helping of third world peoples, and was unaware of the wider agenda. Others point to his intellectual origins in the London School of Economics, along with Bob Hawke; the spawning grounds of Fabian Socialism. Only Gough knew who the real cur was and he is now safely dead. Regardless of who was the first traitor, it was Prime Minister Paul Keating who really put the skids under Australia and gave it the big push towards internationally regulated poverty.

[@derekmottley3656]

How do you think the Chinese do it ? *COAL*

[@kuhhnt]

You don't. You sell the rights to the raw resources to a nation like China, for cents on the dollar of what it's worth, you allow migrant labour at ridiculously low wages, and subsidised housing for them and their families. Then you buy the "refined" product back from China, and spend the next several decades wondering, but never finding out, if the steel you imported, is actually pure steel, or has countless used cars melted down and mixed in.

[@ce244]

@@derekmottley3656 obviously 🙄 but you completely miss the point. High energy costs in the first place, plus the fact that the politicians loathe coal. Instead the Lucky Country digs up iron ore at $75 a tonne, ships it off and buys it back as cars and phones at 50,000 a tonne Instead. Duh.

[@smoochie3331]

But but but my properties are 2x since covid.

[@paulmarshall248]

yeh but your expenses are 10x

[@LoveBagpipes]

They achieved that by multiplying the number of immigrants, while stifling an appropriate number of developments to properly house people

[@derekmottley3656]

See how far it gets you.. 😉

[@TomasGraf-rr6co]

It is the same story everywhere in the West.

[@Dark01978]

Guess I'll stop buying Mars bar now, are they going to country's with slave Labor or USA with slave Labor with there massive migration or is that what Labor has planned for Australia to

[@wendychan6679]

Germany couldn't do it, Japan couldn't do it but wait.....here comes Albo and Chalmers. In one term of government they have stuffed up everything possible. There is no other force on this planet which can create monumental stuff ups like these two. One Nation for me thanks.

[@ausbare140]

People will still vote labor.

[@MattSandford-qh4xj]

Labour voters are getting exactly what they voted for.

[@derekmottley3656]

Yes, sadly they will

[@richardcarey169]

Well if Rowan Dean says it, it's true

[@murraymclean9072]

All they said pre- election was cost of living, cost of living..I've been a small business man and the margins are small..these guys have no idea..and a reminder to all who think that this will all change with a new government..it'll take years to build the infrastructure required..ie..nuclear power plants..once some specialist business close they'll never come back.

[@willmorgan365]

Destruction made in Australia.

[@MattyEngland]

Wanting food to be affordable, is extremely anti-semitic.

[@derekmottley3656]

💩👉🤯

[@DJ-yj1vg]

With high wages, and now high electricity costs, we haven't got a hope compared to the likes of China, Germany, Japan, US, etc.

[@pockeyway]

I'm confused. Does that mean businesses are NOT going (down) under?

[@rge24491]

Labor wants to tax then choose which business survives. Reduce tax, remove subsidies and let profitable business survive. My electricity is going up 13.5% due to having to build transmission lines for remote subsidised wind farms.

[@Clip_Gallery]

What do you expect from the Australian government? Subsidies for businesses? Subsidies won't work. Australian workers' wages are too high. Australia cannot compete with European and American technology. All Australia can do is sell commodity natural resources. Due to the small domestic market and the very high labor costs, selling and exploiting natural resources is the key to Australia's economy, just like the Arab countries.

[@moe2470]

Correct.

[@bettyjohnson2964]

Wow! Sounds like you are talking about my United States!! God bless this world!! ❤️🤗🙏🙏

[@lesleycollis7520]

Excuses Excuses you get paid to do a job bloody DO IT if DR Road builders had the same attitude as pollies we would be up in arms

[@robertchapman6795]

READ YOUR LABELS people! I was in IGA the other day. Even Rosella had fully imported tomatoes. There was not one mainstream sauce with Aussie tomatoes most growing “small family” companies have been bought out, or bankrolled by international corporations.. Most brand name pork is imported from Canada or Denmark as frozen half carcasses.

[@moopius]

Even small single operator businesses are harassed into extinction by Government.

[@user-cx4mc1te1b]

great and steady

[@bigmackas]

have to spend to compensate for the large immigration. hospitals, medical left behind

[@kelseymathias3881]

Mars Bars....a chain of taverns to be built on planet Mars...as soon as Earth colonizes it.

[@kelseymathias3881]

@MarkHardstaff-gm1tp yeah, just kidding

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@MarkHardstaff-gm1tpMusk disagrees. Lol.

[@graemekeeley4497]

Mars has just let us all know what is happening to Manufacturing under a Federal Labor Government Mars says manufacturing In Australia is just too expensive. “And they’re not the only ones. A few global manufacturers - Nestlé, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Kellogg’s - have called out Australia for being an expensive place to do business.” Mars says its gas prices have more than doubled in the past two years (coinciding with the election of Labor) alone, just to keep its six Australian factories running. And the reason spiraling labor costs, rampant inflation, ever-rising energy costs ener - manufacturing is a user of gas then their are the add-on costs key energy inputs, l freight, and handling - supply chains,” Labor has made Australia . "to be just a very expensive place to operate".

[@robharris6874]

You watch big business start leaving the country !!

[@peterlederer3896]

We need to bring back manufacturing to Australia and the companies going on about wages is a joke when the Directors are awarding themselves massive bonuses

[@phredflypogger4425]

So Albo was a dish jockey? Amazing.

[@R0d_1984]

At the pink oyster

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@R0d_1984 are you sure it wasn't the Bearded Clam ?

[@R0d_1984]

@@robertfonovic3551 blue oyster - police academy

[@debbiegradowski9885]

I don’t even remember what a mars bar consists of anymore- haven’t heard about nor seen them so possibly we quit making them awhile back. Now I’m curious and going to have to check this out!! Thanks guys 🧐🤔

[@dominicpelle7841]

I love how *EMOTIONAL* Rowan gets with his hands flailing waving around like he used to on his CC Ice Age Watch defunked program... no longer allowed on KZbin. 😂😂😂😂

[@Her.Serene.Feline.Cuteness.]

His delicate, dainty hands. Didn't they make fun of Trump for his lady hands?

[@Lee-cc9jf]

​@@Her.Serene.Feline.Cuteness.Fake News

[@tooboukou8ball702]

At least they dont pretend they arent brought and paid for anymore

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Cant make cars cant make chocolate bars now too? What can Australia make? Kangaroo sausages?

[@MattyEngland]

Koala skin handbags?

[@wade196840]

Mars left the United States of America decades ago

[@user-co2li1vd5d]

On top of all that wasteful spending, how about giving millions of dollars to help fund the terrorists in the middle east? DEont homeless Australians get some help before terrorists???

[@ulagatin]

While I agree with the gist of the video, it’s hilarious when TV journos rag on politicians for never having held a “real” job before. 🤣

[@relaxedmuffin3666]

This isn't the first time a rich country has become a poor country. Can anyone see this turning around? We are on a trajectory and it's not changing any time soon. Get ready for things to get really really bad.

[@allanedwards1036]

Yeah we used to manufacture cars here too,And the MTWU killed the industry over wages

[@robertfonovic3551]

Nope. They manufactured cars that most people did not want.

[@allanedwards1036]

@@robertfonovic3551 says the former MTWU member😂

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Please read about the car industry. Holden died because they couldn't source decent 4WDs and SUVs from overseas. They said so themselves. Ford is still a name here because their small cars sold much better than Holden and they _could_ source 4WDs and SUVs people wanted to buy. Explain the logic.

[@allanedwards1036]

@@Gough-jf9zf comrade citizen,I don't have to High wages killed Holden, Chrysler, Toyota Mitsubishi, Holden said what they did to give the other manufacturers a chance,they still all went.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@allanedwards1036 Komerad Herr en ras se, a few logical issues with your reply. Nissan & Chrysler shut up early 80s. 20, 25 years before Holden. Holden was _last_ to close, so how would such a statement help anyone? When there were 3 manufacturers here, they were busy sabotaging each other's part subcontractors, so they're hardly liable to help each other... Japanese wages were comparatively higher.

[@davidferry548]

Ok ok so as a financial magician it’s unlikely Abonese can pull a rabbit out of his hat but I’m sure this budget will see him pull a black hair ( hare) out of his arse

[@jameschen8673]

Australia is far too expensive to live in thanks to exploding inflation and wages has to go up to keep up with inflation, thats why it's too expensive to make anything in Australia because cost of business or wages is far too high. Especially small businesses which i now have to close down one that i have worked in for over 10 years because there is no cash.

[@R0d_1984]

You forgot immigration

[@collette9008]

And the USA says "Hold my beer!"

[@JDVHS]

I remember in the earl 80's they were 20c!

[@richardnovak9910]

The rich get richer and we get poorer.

[@bm5906]

lol - the entire world continues to laugh at Australia.

[@qpw62043]

Labor is more afraid of a higher rate of unemployment than higher rates of inflation.

[@ray-jg1pc]

I get it but , what is the difference between them the Greens Libs Nats

[@chrisgriffiths2533]

No Mars Bar. Big Opportunity for the CWA. Those Ladies make Amazing Cakes. Thanks Rita, Rowan, James for the Opportunity to Promote the CWA Cakes. PS. James We Need the Aussie Solar Panels in Central QLD for Our Genuine Large Scale Solar Power Stations, Minimum 2500 Square Kilometers

[@graham3592]

You do get paid very well at a Mars Factory... without any university degree or apprenticeship. It's great to be paid well... but not if you end up with no job in the long run. So many businesses and factories have left our shores because of this.

[@martjebicker9168]

Same here in the United States.

[@Super_Mario128]

This is damning!

[@annam1969]

Awesome show. Watching from Commifornia, Not so angels city (Los Angeles). Great news here. Love you all especially Rita, lefties losing it.

[@ZIZTERGABRIELLA-hs8hp]

*ON MY END HERE IN HAWAII, THE AUDIO WAS ON AND OFF, TO WHERE THERE WERE LENGTHY GAPS, SO MUCH SO I DIDN'T GET HEAR WHAT THE PEOPLE WERE SAYING*

[@R0d_1984]

It's on your side

[@byza101]

If we were self sufficient, as in we produced everything we need, we wouldn’t have inflation… If we didn’t have unfettered immigration, we wouldn’t have such high real estate prices.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

We didn't import any pharmaceuticals? We'd have the technology and the trained personnel? Would we be importing the chemicals for them or would be be self-sufficient there, too? We build all our cars, forklifts, xray machines, spectrometers & doubledecker passenger aircraft here? With what workers? If we didn't buy stuff from other countries, why should they buy from us?

[@byza101]

@@Gough-jf9zf so you produce everything you can and of course yes, you trade for the things you don’t have the raw materials for… We used to make everything here,now we import all that used to make. Especially with food, you feed the nation first, export the surplus…. Life was much better here in the 80’s, right up to 2000 and downhill from there. This version of Australia in 2024 is neither as good, or representative of Australia pre 2000. What is stopping us from making pharmaceuticals? Or anything we need really? It might be cheaper to have it made overseas and then import it to make a profit, but is that in the national interest?

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@byza101 I'm all in favour of us making pharma here. But please explain where we're going to get the trained staff from? Ppl are whining about migrants now. We're not a highly skilled nation. When will we start building the factories, all of them very specialised and high tech? With what money? Where will we find the many billions of $$$ to pay for patents so we can make drugs? How can we find a market when there's only 26 million of us and our Asian neighbours can do it for less? It once mattered we made stuff here, but now it matters less. Our economy and our workforce changed greatly. Could you go out to eat at 10pm in the 1980s? Find a store open that sold something you really needed at 12:30am? We're changing into a service economy.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@byza101 Love it or hate it, the country has changed a lot. Look around your house, all that decor and kitchen machines and electronic gadgets and cheap furniture. All that is due to the global economy. Little of which you could afford before. What we lost in one area, we made up in others. That's the way of the world.

[@Nabraska49]

Mars should open up a cake factory for all the cake eaters.. business could not be better.

[@lokai7914]

To quote the fictitious Sir Humphrey Appleby (Yes, Minister), 'We get the difficult part out of the way in the document's title.'

[@stpeterscooksriver1873]

That we cannot get Mars bars to manufacture i Australia, is something we should be concerned about. I seem to remember a time when wealth of a nation and all things economic were measured, not in gold bars, but Mars bars. Something about the stability of the price of the Mars product over a considerable length of time.