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Exporting more jobs, the Baaaaastards

Whaaaaaaaat!? You got to be damn well kidding. Typical of our great Australian talent for exporting jobs that could easily be done within our shores.

The cause of my apoplectic reaction? Apparently our Winter Olympic team's woollen coats have been made in New Zealand.

Now the Kiwis are usually good sorts - as long as they've lived here a bit and got the chip off their shoulders - but helping their economy by getting them to make the pretty damn fine looking coats is not good enough.

Aside from the jingoistic "why should our national sports team wear clothing made overseas?" there's the more practical matter of jobs.

Surely the items could have been manufactured here with the proceeds going to Australian firms and workers. While we may have the world's "miracle economy", that doesn't stop even high earners struggling a bit and there's still a too-high level of unemployment.

So while our mob troops around in Salt Lake City next month, admire their outfits and then think of all the dollars flying out of the country.

Which reminds me, I was driving down a country road in EnZed recently when I stopped near a farmer engaged in naughty activities with one of his flock (bit like a priest really).

Anyway, I leant out the window and said: "Where I'm from we shear those mate!"

He looked up and replied: "I'm not sharing her within anyone."

What can you say to that?

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