I gotta mate here, they (no gender thingie stuff here, EVERYONE kin make things!) just put this up on their blog:
I cn see why they might be a “bit miffed.” In fact I’m sure I cn tell ya wat’s under those grey blobs, hehehe. (One ting ole Grumps knows is cussin’ )
But yeah - I’m sprised sumtimes that makers in Oz akshally MAKE stuff wen de price a’ entry is dat high.
Akshally I’m seriously PISSED at Australia Post meself. Have heard horror stories about o’seas parcels taking SIX MONTHS ta deliver an the AusPost support sayin’ they never seen the parcel but then - sprise - it gets delivered the very next day, and letters takin’ 8 days to be moved 800metres in a proper-like town with a proper-like Post Office an’ all, and then a few weeks back weren’t they tellin’ us a loada hooey?
“Oh we’re making BILLIONS more than this time a few years ago!” and then too, tha ever popular:
“But we ain’t spendin any of it on hirin’ and trainin’ new staff, no sirree! We are just gonna stop picking those pesky parcels up until people stop payin’ us and get dey mate with a motorbike to drop ‘em off. Now go find us our mummy so we c’n cry about how everbody hates us! For NO reason!”
Innit time that we akshally start MAKIN’ summa dis shit here in Straya? We have got summa da cleverest people inna world! We have got patents on summa da most important tech inna world. We have got factories dat the megastoopid govment closed down becos dat was too much like becomin an independent country wit some … infrastructure (‘onya Merriam-Webster!) and enough happenin that we could stand on our own and dey can’t handle that can they? - anyway, we have got factories that can be used for somma dis.
We could have all this stuff made here, let makers and clever dicks get dey hands on it for REAL prices, and den we’d have more income from new patents, and a whole lotta thrivin’ biznesses happenin an makin money sellin OUR clever peoples’s smart stuff. We could be de country showin’ how ta fix carbon an climate an waste an all. And instead we’re payin’ shitty prices like dat.
WHY AREN’T WE TRYIN’ TO BECOME THE CLEVER COUNTRY AGAIN?
Grrr! Now git!