John MacRae - The Selling Out of Australia

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I was blown away listening to John MacRae’s fiery talk — this is raw, lived-experience truth about how Australia’s manufacturing and jobs have been hollowed out. John speaks as a former shift engine worker, coal miner, poultry farmer and transport operator who has followed politics his whole life. He lays the blame on four major predators — taxes, tariffs, treaties and even the family law court — and pulls no punches about the decisions and agreements that cost us industry. John points to the Lima Declaration (UNIDO) and specific articles that he says accelerated the transfer of industry overseas, then lists factory after factory that used to employ thousands in the local area: glassworks, car plants, battery makers, machinery builders and more. It’s part history lesson, part personal testimony, and part rallying cry to wake people up to what’s been lost. If you care about jobs, community and manufacturing in Australia, watch this — it’s angry, heartfelt and impossible to ignore.

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Tonight’s panel brought a powerful, straight-talking address from John MacRae — a bloke who’s worked in mechanical industries, shift engines, coal mining, transport and even ran poultry farms. John’s been speaking on radio and at rallies for years, and tonight he lays out what he sees as the causes of Australia’s industrial collapse: taxes, tariffs, treaties and the family law court. He takes us back to 1975 and the Lima Declaration (UNIDO), highlighting Articles 25, 28, 35 and 44 and arguing these commitments helped shift manufacturing away from Australia and into developing nations.

John names company after company that used to employ thousands within a few kilometres of here — glassworks, Crown Crystal, car manufacturers, battery plants, machinery makers, printing and tin works — and he remembers a time when local manufacturing gave families real jobs and pride. This is more than nostalgia; it’s a call to understand how policy, trade and global agreements affect ordinary Aussies and their livelihoods.

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