If all goes well for investors the Australian public will end up breaking the corporate code of ‘markets rule’ by keeping unprofitable business functioning and jobs going. That’s the cost of being ‘Made in Australia’. 

The moral of this tale? Boards and lenders should treat government predictions as scribble pads and do their own deep-down, on-ground research. 

Source: Future Made in Australia? China and Indonesia are listening, nickel and dime – Michael West