If you plan to go to work in Australia or a bit of adventurer, half tourist, half thrown to fish for a job, I tell you that things are not going to be very good economically speaking around here. Not because of the world crisis or because of the growth of Chinese power but because of the wave of natural disasters that has been ravaging Australia for some time.
Any country would see its economy hit with everything Australia has suffered in recent months, including rains, floods and cyclones. The floods left entire villages under water, resulted in the transfer of many people and many losses in crops and mines. Then came, last week, the cyclone and again the problems and destruction that already represent a collapse of 7 billion dollars in the export of coal and agricultural products. This would be the country's first economic contraction since 2008 because despite the global crisis, it had been dodging the conflict with ease.
The government's idea is to present an extraordinary tax to collect 1800 million dollars in a year and thus help pay for the repair of streets, bridges, ports and trains that were damaged by the waters. The opposition, showing off the name, is opposed and wants that money to come out of the state coffers, that is, to reduce public spending. The same recipe again! The State does not invest, it spends, that is the maxim of neoliberalism ...