Ned
K.
In
January 2016 the City of Adelaide once again hosted the international cycling
circus, Tour Down Under.
Good
for promoting a non-polluting form of transport for tourism dollars and for
promotion of personal fitness.
The
bicycles ridden by participants and the millions more Australian people are
quite expensive and well-manufactured.
The irony is that up until the 1970s
Australia and South Australia in particular had a pretty well established
bicycle manufacturing industry and component industry associated with it. Super
Elliott and Malvern Star were two popular brands.
This
industry was destroyed and moved off shore just like the car industry, but
without any outcry whatsoever. Now the "cycling revolution" is still
on the rise and the profits from the manufacture of cycles and the jobs are
overseas.
The
parliamentary three or four year cycle does not produce governments with any
serious vision for Australia and for a long term plan. Only a new system worked
out by the people for the people will do this.
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