Kiddies

Mother nature played a cruel trick on Australia. She bestowed upon her vast quantities of top grade, easily extractable iron ore, vast reserves of coal, an immense coast line and then positioned her at the arse end of the globe. [New Zealand is beyond the arse end of the world, where ever that is]. Even then things would have been fine but Mother nature, fickle floozy that she is put the iron ore on the western side of the continent and the coal on the other side. Make economically viable steel out of that.

Well we just about have.

Our farmers extract a living from unlikely soil. We have literacy and numeracy levels just about as high as those any where in the world.

The kiddies we employ, as opposed to those we've rejected as unsuitable, work an entire shift before they've earned an hour's pay. That's a cage of goods put out per person per shift when it should be a cage of goods per half hour. Danny, James and Jack - consider yourselves shamed. Jack, I know you've got a my space presence and I'm not afraid to use it, so extract yourself from your student rep activities just long enough to actually earn what we're paying you. OK?