What keeps Australia "fed" and "rich"?

Mining and agriculture. Not all the useless, fat, lazy, parasitical urban mouths.

China as a market to sell off has allowed Australia to have some of the highest economic growth rates in the world for the last thirty or so years. In excess of the old SE Asia "Tiger" economies.

Out lazy fat over paid workforce world inefficient manufacturing sectors have declined or disappeared.

So if China stops buying from us, what are we to do?

Keep endlessly spending wastefully taxpayers money, no increasing govt debt, on useless govt spending? Like our fools in govt are doing?

Even though I am in the agricultural industries, I AGREE with you. We need to, and the world needs to stop pandering to the Chinese and we need to sell our raw produce and minerals elsewhere. India is being looked to as a replacement market to China. SE Asia and Indonesia should also be considered. The Muzzies of Indonesia as just as temperamental as the Chinks though.

AND we need to develop our own EFFICIENT and productive manufacturing industries. The communist Union fools need to be dealt with. The have destroyed our secondary industries for a half century or more. We need to produce ourselves. Turn our raw materials into finished goods. No need for Chinese crap if we had a decent manufacturing sector. No need to import, we should be exporting.

Instead of goivt spending creating ever more welfare dependencies , govt should be creating twenty year plans to take targeted industries into world efficient manufacturing industries.

BTW it would be good to keep on topic. This is not the politics forum. It was a wildlife topic. I will have to shift the posts.