>>109601412
I NEED a Chinese Australian gf so bad brehs...

>>109601412
> Why does Australia outsource its tech industry

Because IT work is now considered unskilled labour by most Aussie employers. Hacks and data loss are the real cost of outsourcing to the third world

>>109601412
Because if shit hits the fan, they can shift the liability onto the third party and take no responsibility for it.
>Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM

>>109601412
it's cheaper. my last job could've hired one local skilled guy to work under me or they could've hired three moneys in southeast asia and make me waste my time training them up. you can guess which they went with

>>109601412
our tech industry was already just jobs outsourced to us by the US because we were cheaper: a decent salary here is still just flyover state money for a US company
it's only natural that employers here would realise they can just outsource the outsourced job again to SEA and pocket the extra
add mass jeet migration on top of that and even those US employers realise they may as well skip the middleman

>>109601412
Thomas Friedman's book "The World is Flat" had major impact, world wide. The book was later heavily criticized but by that time the damage was done.

>>109601412
>outsource its tech industry
name one country outside the US that does not do this

>>109601412
Because Australians make money with houses.
Why work when you can just make money out of property investment?
The suckers who still work tech can just move to the US.

>>109603353
>suckers who still work tech can just move to the US

nearly impossible because you need visa

>>109601412
Because its to expensive to pay australian worker entitlments so its a no brainer to outsource to indonesia

>>109601655
That explains IBM, Oracle, and RSA in Brisbane.

regulation and tax

all the good ones leave, the ones that stay are just cogs in the machine