You might find it odd that the US-owned tax dodgers of News Corp have taken a break from their normal business model of undermining Australia’s social cohesion to spruik manufacturing, via its creatively named “Back Australia” campaign. But dig a little deeper and News Corp’s political agenda emerges — and a bizarre kind of circular logic.
The claim that the “hollowing out of domestic production of essential goods in favour of often inferior imports has been a strategic mistake” is a little hard to take from one of the organs that so assiduously promoted neoliberalism in the 1990s and 2000s.