No more Aussie made fridges

[Mickxr8]

Had a bit of a sigh this morning when I read this,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-2...-close/5046580 ,

Another victim of cheaper O/S labour, Bought a brand new fridge 2 months ago and the main criteria was it had to be aussie made so we got a kelvinator , Try so damn hard to support local manufacture by buying aus made but geez it`s getting hard..

[gtfpv]

yeah its very bad abd i cant help worrying about todays children . people are giving away australain jobs , for extra profit . creating two things . more welfare and a country full of dummies . and poverty will be the end result . i cant understand how the australain ways and lifestyles are being given away .
SOON THE ONLY WAY WE WILL HAVE WEALTH IS TO BRING PEOPLE HERE FROM OVERSEAS WH ALREADY HAVE MONEY . WHICH MAKES AUSTRALIAN BORN PEOLE 2ND CLASS , AND THATS A REAL REAL SHAME

[mik]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

yeah its very bad abd i cant help worrying about todays children . people are giving away australain jobs , for extra profit . creating two things . more welfare and a country full of dummies . and poverty will be the end result . i cant understand how the australain ways and lifestyles are being given away .
SOON THE ONLY WAY WE WILL HAVE WEALTH IS TO BRING PEOPLE HERE FROM OVERSEAS WH ALREADY HAVE MONEY . WHICH MAKES AUSTRALIAN BORN PEOLE 2ND CLASS , AND THATS A REAL REAL SHAME

Yes it worries me too mate, apart from the employment and skills loss, this is just another nail in the coffin to our being self sufficient and our ability to do stuff here, and there will come a time when we need to be self sufficient, and we just won't be able too.
It is no problem for pollies, this is called restructuring, but they will go away with their perks and pensions regardless of the people that get the bullet..

[Madaya]

I've only owned 1 fridge, bought it second hand off a mate about 15 years ago. It was old even then, in fact she bought it second hand.
It's a Kelvinator 336. Solid, quiet and cold. Massive radiator, obviously built for Australian conditions.
It's a pre auto defrost model, so I defrost it about twice a year = no prob. and on the advice of a mate, I Vaseline the rubber door seal once a year, apparently helps keep the rubber supple.

[ford man xf]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

yeah its very bad abd i cant help worrying about todays children . people are giving away australain jobs , for extra profit . creating two things . more welfare and a country full of dummies . and poverty will be the end result . i cant understand how the australain ways and lifestyles are being given away .
SOON THE ONLY WAY WE WILL HAVE WEALTH IS TO BRING PEOPLE HERE FROM OVERSEAS WH ALREADY HAVE MONEY . WHICH MAKES AUSTRALIAN BORN PEOLE 2ND CLASS , AND THATS A REAL REAL SHAME

I bet your enjoying your union backed payrises though LOL

[gtfpv]

Originally Posted by ford man xf

I bet your enjoying your union backed payrises though LOL

sure am dude . thanks . 12% super , + 4% pa every year . not getting any richer though , but able to pay the bills even though some of them have gone up 20% and with the new tolls coming , i'm going to need them to cover the extra costs of getting to work

[Davehoos]

My living standards have never been so good. so Im confused.

Im happy tradesman with $50K local government job--not bad for a person with 33 years experience. might even own a home when my parents die.

this year I got axcess to credit.
If only my super returned half that--love that compulsary super and who needs income tax reduction when the only tax I pay now is GST and levies.

I like to comment-But I dont have a PHD or want my NBN cut off.
I had my how to identify a power line training, looking forward to situational leader ship awareness.
Had basic training on how to identify a roadsign but it will be years before I could put one out without supervision, still cant work out how and what colour the bollards need to be when I park my truck.

Planning to get my heavy vehicle inspection ticket-but there no vacancies till next year. Thankfully I wont have to pay for it. Next year they informed me ive been pencilled in for familiarise backhoe,front end loader and self loading crane..

had to forget my air conditioning skills as they are no longer valid. Who would have thunk it?

[LG17]

Gee I thought they'd fallen foul ages ago.

[Franco Cozzo]

I didn't realise there actually was white goods being made in Australia (besides the Aurion).

[Venomous1]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

I didn't realise there actually was white goods being made in Australia (besides the Aurion).

made me lol

[Silver Ghia]

Absolutely ridiculous that Australian manufacture is heading towards zero, and the governments are doing nothing about restricting cheaper imports in some way. I've always bought Westinghouse Aus made fridges, the new oven is Electrolux, made in Aus as well.

Even Heinz soups, made in NZ from local and imported ingredients. Disgraceful.

[Spurious]

Gerry Harvey says "if your not buying Aussie made...why"?

Last I checked most of Harvey Normans products were imports. LOL

This also means if I want to work for an Aussie company, I need a visa!

[Olbucko]

Don't know what I will do when the Westinghouse dies, there is only about 20 years life left in it.

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by Olbucko

Don't know what I will do when the Westinghouse dies, there is only about 20 years life left in it.

My old fridge (now the beer fridge) is a Westinghouse that my parents bought 2nd hand about 30 years ago. The plastics inside have worn out over time (ie. I can't put stuff in the doors because the shelves would fall out) but mechanically it hasn't skipped a beat. That's why when I bought a new fridge a couple of years ago, I bought a Westinghouse. I doubt it'll last as long but so far so good!

[FGII-XR6]

Australia can never compete in this kind of market as I have said previously in car manufacturing threads. What Australia excels in is niche design and manufacturing, small run specialised production that most "cheap " countries aren't prepared to do. the sweatshop countries we can't normally compete only want to manufacture high volume goods that they can churn out like sausages.
Australia has a proven track record in specialised design and manufacturing and this is where our manufacturing future lies not in cars , consumer electronics and whitegoods. this is actually a very lucrative field with room for further expansion , money from Govco that currently goes to prop up dying unstainable manufacturing that will eventually end regardless of grants should be used to develop these markets further.

[hulkfocus]

This is very worrying....soon there will no longer be ''oh yeah my dad worked there for 30 years and ill probally do the same'' gone are those days :(

Everything is going cars,timber,food,pretty much all manufacturing and the ones that stay running are ran by the US and they dont care if you dont have a job at the end aslong as they make profit.

[GK]

Originally Posted by hulkfocus

This is very worrying....soon there will no longer be ''oh yeah my dad worked there for 30 years and ill probally do the same'' gone are those days :(

Nope!

Soon there'll be a whole class of people who will be able to say, "my dad worked for Centrelink for 30 years, and I'm employed by them too!"

GK

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by GK

Nope!

Soon there'll be a whole class of people who will be able to say, "my dad worked for Centrelink for 30 years, and I'm employed by them too!"

GK

My old man has worked for DSS/Centrelink since 1978, lol.

I wouldn't mind gettimg into fraud squad.

[BHDOGS]

Seems making the fridge last longer has exacerbated the problem as there would be less turn over so less profit so they leave Australia double edged sword I'd say

[Road_Warrior]

Not the first, won't be the last. Vale to another iconic manufacturer in Australia disappearing. We've got a number of Electrolux appliances in our house and when we renovated the kitchen in our old house, we purchased Electrolux appliances.

When will this end? I guess when there is no more industry in Australia.

[gtfpv]

next is medibank private . even our health wont be ours .

[BadMax]

Get rid of Unions, reduce salaries of unskilled labour in fact everyone, drive the AUD down to an acceptable level, reduce the government hand outs.

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by BadMax

Get rid of Unions, reduce salaries of unskilled labour in fact everyone, drive the AUD down to an acceptable level, reduce the government hand outs.

This is probably the right direction, but we also need to reduce the value of housing, land, cost of living.

The whole cost of living and subsequent wages is just so over inflated in this country.

15 years ago everyone use to brag about how the value of their house went up, everyone is getting rich blah blah blah.....now where has it got us. Backfired in a big way.

[castellan]

Originally Posted by Stefan

This is probably the right direction, but we also need to reduce the value of housing, land, cost of living.

The whole cost of living and subsequent wages is just so over inflated in this country.

15 years ago everyone use to brag about how the value of their house went up, everyone is getting rich blah blah blah.....now where has it got us. Backfired in a big way.

And they could not see it all due to greed and a casino mentality.

A builder mate of mine at the start of the boom a house and land that was worth $100,000 became $300,000 in just so many years and i said this is not right !
How are our children ever going to own their own house ?
He flew right off the handle swearing at me that he did not give a toss !!!
He was completely happy for it to go to 1 million as long as he could own 12 houses and this was his goal at that time.
The poor bugger ended up losing the 6 he had but riped off the gov for 1 million and still had about 1 million in tools etc that he hid and all the tradies who lost $ working for him and yes he was happy knowing that they were not going to be payed at all.

[Papa Smurf]

Nothing

[poppa smurf]

things are changing but unfortunately not for the better........

[dave351cid]

i wonder what it is about 2016. both falcon, commodore and electrolux all closing shop in 2016.
there will be no old australian companies left by the start of next decade.

SPC foods are closing up too arnt they . not sure when. i had better start stocking up on baked beans.

[Madaya]

One of the reasons why we need the NBN. One thing Australia has is a deep and broad 'brain pool'. For a small population in a huge country, it required good old Aussie know how and can do (and fair go) to build the nation. A country's greatest resource is its people.
On the surface it looks bad, but soon will be the day when cars have gone the way of the dinosaurs (or at least, the horse and buggy).

[XR Martin]

Originally Posted by dave351cid

i wonder what it is about 2016. both falcon, commodore and electrolux all closing shop in 2016.
there will be no old australian companies left by the start of next decade.

SPC foods are closing up too arnt they . not sure when. i had better start stocking up on baked beans.

The canning company in Bathurst is to review its operations in 2016.

Most likely our food will be sent overseas to be processed and then sent back here.

If everyone went out and spent $20 on canned Aussie foods it would help the industry quite a bit.

[staity]

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

The canning company in Bathurst is to review its operations in 2016.

Most likely our food will be sent overseas to be processed and then sent back here.

If everyone went out and spent $20 on canned Aussie foods it would help the industry quite a bit.

Actually they reviewed operations this month and are scaling back operations as of next year. 110 people out of work from April. I can tell you they wont be sending food from here oversea for processing, they will just source it from there, Goodbye Aussie Farmers. Unfortunately we cant compete against places that pay $2 an hour. Labour costs,utilities and cheap imports, are what is killing Australian Manufacturing.