A discussion about the economic development of the Northern Territory in the next twenty or thirty years is taking place in the conference room of the Darwin Government Building.

The entire meeting was not open to the public

Fully closed consultation was adopted

The reason for choosing closed negotiations is mainly because the Australian government does not want the content of the negotiations to be exposed to the media prematurely.

Until now, there are still many people in Australia who are resistant to the large-scale immigration of Chinese and Asians to Australia. In particular, some supporters of the White Australia Policy have spared no effort to criticize the government in some news media.

Unlike other Western governments that are often influenced by the voices of the people at the bottom, the Australian government often ignores the voices from the bottom. The elected can make promises before taking office, but it is a different story once they are seated in office.

For the development of the Northern Territory, Australia has made a lot of efforts this time, even investing a lot of money to build railways and improve the transportation problems in the Northern Territory at any cost, so as to allow the Yang Group to invest more funds in the Northern Territory.

As the development of the Northern Territory continues to deepen, a series of construction requires raw materials, which are continuously transported to the Northern Territory from other parts of Australia. The development of the Northern Territory has truly promoted the development of Australia's overall economy. The Australian government does not want its own

As soon as it tasted the sweetness, it was destroyed by a group of ignorant people.

As an isolated island in the ocean, Australia is adjacent to Asia, but it truly belongs to the Western camp. The island country wanted to leave Asia and join Europe in the early years. Although it failed, it has been supported and controlled by the United States since World War II. The island country is very clear about the significance of its existence.

and function.

As an enclave in the early days of the British Empire, Australia was, to put it bluntly, the place where British prisoners were exiled. For a long time, Australia followed its master around obediently and seldom made its own decisions.

As Britain gradually declined, although Australia had more and more decisions to make, it lost its biggest source of livelihood.

Australia is rich in resources but has a small population. It is like a landowner's long-term labor in a warehouse. Suddenly one day the landlord's family is destroyed and he cannot control his long-term labor.

Finally, the long-term workers held a peace meeting with their landlords, and everyone divided up the family property in a peaceful manner.

It can be said that Australia is a long-term worker. It has the entire continent and a large grain depot. It can be said that in the early stage, you will have no worries about food and clothing.

As the saying goes, ‘sit back and eat nothing’.

Gold and silver mountains also have time to play with flowers,

Since the 1970s, Australia, a long-term worker who had no worries about food and clothing, found that the food in his family's granary was getting less and less, so he thought about rolling up his sleeves and going to work, but he looked around.

, Australia suddenly became embarrassed.

Because at this time, the Australian government suddenly found itself facing a multiple-choice question.

What multiple choice question?

That is to choose the surname Xi

Still surnamed Dong

Choose to lean toward the east or continue to follow the west.

This is a bit like the same problem faced by the early island countries after they became great powers after the Meiji Restoration.

However, the situation in Australia is somewhat different from that of the island country. The island country had become stronger at that time and looked down on the poor neighbors around it. Therefore, it wanted to mix with Westerners in rich areas and make friends with the rich.

Australia is firmly in the Western camp, and Western countries have never denied this.

However, Australia is too far away from the Western base camp, and its neighbors are all Asian countries. Once something happens, Western countries will not be able to help at all.

The most terrible thing is that it is not as powerful as the island country, and its population is not as large as the island country. The backing behind it is getting weaker and weaker, and it no longer even imports raw materials from its little brother.

Therefore, for a long time, Australia was confused. Historically, the lost "Bridgehead of the West" was used to describe Australia.

Since the 1970s, the Australian government finally figured out that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, so it began to abolish the White Australia Policy and began to take into account the development of Asian immigrants to Australia.

Its Prime Minister Whitlam even mentioned at the United Nations General Assembly that "We want to build Australia into an independent country in the Asia-Pacific region that values ​​tolerance and cooperation and is anti-discrimination."

Under the guidance of Trahm's philosophy, Australia, far away from the "barriers" of the Cold War, began its first contact with Asia.

It successively established relations with mainland Vietnam and actively repaired rifts with its hostile neighbor Indonesia.

After Whitlam, the current Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke also followed the policy philosophy of the previous Australian Prime Minister. However, unlike the previous Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke took greater actions in this regard and was more active.

Australia's two prime ministers have actively promoted strengthening relations with Asian countries, largely due to Australia's economic recession.

Since the end of World War II, in order to restore their own economies, European countries have built tariff fortresses to prevent other countries' goods from flowing into their countries, which has had a great impact on the Australian economy.

However, compared with the tariff fortresses of European countries, the biggest impact on the Australian economy was the dismantling of the Commonwealth trading system in the 1970s.

The UK applied twice to join the European Economic Community in 1961 and 1967, but was ultimately rejected. The biggest obstacle in the negotiations was the federal system of preferences.

The Commonwealth System of Preferences is an economic and trade agreement between member countries within the Commonwealth system. This trade agreement allows members of the Commonwealth to enjoy preferential nation treatment from each other.

In the Commonwealth trading system, Australia, which is rich in resources, is naturally the party that benefits from the preferential agreement. Until the Commonwealth preferential system is lifted, Australia's resource exports do not have to worry at all.

With so many members of the Commonwealth, Australia's resources are not unmarketable. However, with the lifting of the Commonwealth's preferential system, Australia lost its preferential nation status, and its exports were immediately affected.

Europe and the United States are far away and without preferential nation treatment, Australia's raw material export price advantage disappears all of a sudden.

The economic downturn has caused Australia's Western-centered trade to begin to falter, forcing Australia to urgently find new markets.

It was precisely in the 1960s and 1970s that the Asian economy began to take off. Especially in the 1970s, the economies of the four regions of Bay Area, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea developed rapidly.

The largest industrial revolution in human history has broken out in Asia, and the demand for raw materials continues to increase. This has made Australia, which has always been dominated by Europe, finally look back at its poor neighbors.
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