And a Liberal government did the same in Vic with Toyota! Transnational
corps. (TNC's) have that kind of power - give us tax breaks, etc., or
we move offshore. Corporate bullying.
What I noted from recent postings on nailing CF cards to trees and
Kodak closure is that the UK has a digital take-up rate of 18% of
households while ours in Oz is one third. Interesting - confirmation
that Australians tend to take up new-tech rather enthusiastically.
AndrewF
On 17/09/2004, at 11:55 AM, John Wheeler wrote:
> It may not all be down to digi sales in Oz. Kodak here have been going
> down
> for some time. A few years back a Labor government propped them up
> with many
> millions of Oz$'s when they were about to shut down (Kodak that is,
> not the
> Labor government - unfortunately).
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