Changing gears on the factory floor

By Debra Jopson, Joshua Dowling
Updated November 10 2012 - 3:50am, first published January 27 2012 - 3:15pm
Chinese workers on the assembly line of a Ford Motor plant in Chongqing, Sichuan, Southwestern China.
Chinese workers on the assembly line of a Ford Motor plant in Chongqing, Sichuan, Southwestern China.

The language was dry, but the tale that the economist Gary Banks told at a Canberra gathering of businesspeople one night in November had all the scary elements of a bedtime story, of a land once great whose citizens squandered their good fortune through a trick of their own imagination.

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