BC Iron, Mt Gibson and Atlas Iron squeezed by iron ore rout, page-18

There ain't much else of Australia's once mighty resources industries locally owned.
Our fate in the not distant future?
The writing's been on the wall for years, quarry, farm and the ideologue masquerading as education minister hell bent on A$100k degrees.

Hi 5 there Bellcurve!

You got it in one.

New national slogan: Australia - the dumb country!

Any Chinese billionaires out there who want to by an iron mine?
How about a cheap sub-division?
A big slice of the Gold Coast?
How about a Coral Perch export business?
No, prefer crayfish? - that's ok , you can have it for next to nix - we're nice people us Aussies. Besides, I need to rush home to watch the cricket.
Hey, we've got some prime dairy farms that nobody is interested in.
Or, how about we just give you our manufacturing sector - that's gunna save a whole bunch of negotiation and *** kissing.
Oh gee, look what I'm sitting on, it's a cheap office building!
Beef farms? we got heaps of them (well, we used to).
Cheap irrigation water??? Weeeeeeeeelllllll how much do you want? It's not like anyone is drinking it.
Infrastructure, - oh yeah infrastructure, - we got this great deal on a bridge and toll-road package that returns over.............................