Guys,
It's a TV show, their income comes from sponsorship and they will push whatever their sponsors are
selling, and judging from some of the advertising content they let at least one of their sponsors run they aren't
interested in checking the accuracy of the content either.
I also seem to remember not so long ago Simon pushing Tiger winches as the bees knees, maybe he still does?
Should we support Australian companies? Simple fact is if you want your kids to have jobs in the future then yes if
possible. Manufacturing in Australia is dieing rapidly, from memory I believe around 70% of us work in local supply
industries, ie companies that earn an income selling or providing services to locals. Can you name one person you know
who works for a company that sells internationally and brings money into the country? I have asked a lot of people that
question over the past few years and not many can!
Another question is do Australian companies deserve our support? Their are some I would recommended and and others
I now wouldn't due to their unethical sales and marketing tactics. It seems some Australian companies want Australians
to support them but then they go and use false and deceptive advertising to aggressively push their products and try
and steal sales from other Australian businesses. It is also sad to see some well know companies pushing their premium
high profit products when they know in a lot of cases their lower costs products would do a better job, and whats worse
still they sell the same items overseas cheaper than they do to the local market.
It has also been interesting to see at least a couple of well know Australian icons continue to sell products that haven't
worked effectively in some vehicles for around 6 years. I find it hard to believe they weren't aware of the issues, if they
weren't then they should not be marketing in the areas concerned.
I believe the bottom line is yes, support Australian companies when you can even if it costs a little more but only if the
company is also doing the right thing by the Australian public.
I have worked in electronics all my life,I have seen Australia go from a country where we used to manufacture our own
TV's Radio etc to a country were I have to purchase all my components from companies that just import as we no longer
manufacture anything here. These industries were the breeding grounds for our technical personnel, they were state of
the art manufacturing, many of the highly skilled technicians that went into other fields were trained in these and the old
PMG/Telecom etc, these industries either don't exist now or no longer have training schools, once the current bread of TV
repair men, service personnel, motor car industry techs retire then that will be that in Australia, apart from the hobbyist
there won't be anyone left with skills to be able to repair anything electronic to the component level, forget having your TV
etc serviced, the company that sold it to you won't be interested after the warranty runs out. Same for your car, you can
keep an old model going forever, the newer electronic wonders are a different kettle of fish, once supplies of the modules
and sensors run out that's that unless you can find one of those prehistoric electronics technicians/hobbyists and he can
source or make a substitute component, but then again in this throw away society does it really matter?
