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- From: djewell@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (David Jewell - Radio and Satellite Networks)
- Subject: Re: Australian Products
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.002116.9016@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs. Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- References: <ADT.93Jan18171826@saussure.technix.oz.au> <1993Jan19.014916.9597@trl.oz.au> <ADT.93Jan20175208@saussure.technix.oz.au>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:21:16 GMT
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- In article <ADT.93Jan20175208@saussure.technix.oz.au> adt@technix.oz.au (Andrew Tune) writes:
- >
- >The one which isn't running at a profit, regardless of the country.
- >If the English company has a profit making factory in Oz and a
- >loss-making factory in the UK, shutting down the Australian one would
- >be a recipe for disaster. But this is nothing to do with geography,
- >it's to do with profitability.
- >
- But what if by closing the Australian office and bringing home to the UK
- their manager I can make head office most efficient and profitable? We
- can play 'what ifs' for years though. As a people in a 'democratic'
- country, where do you want your seat of economic power? In your own
- elected parliament or in the boardroom of some multinational company that
- is propelled by profit with scant regard for the social fibre of any community?
- DJ...
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