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1. As Wikipedia notes, Menzies’ response to the Queen’s visit to Parliament House in 1963 was to quote Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford, ‘I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.’
2. See Macintyre (Citation2015) and Dettmer (Citation2020).
3. For the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme, see www.snowyhydro.com.au/about/history, For computing, note that the CSIRAC was Australia’s first digital computer and the fifth stored program computer in the world: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRAC (retrieved 29 September 2020).
4. German-Australian Cooperation on Industrie 4.0 www.industry.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-03/german-australian-cooperation-on-industrie-4.0.pdf (retrieved 1 October 2020).
5. Duff (Citation2019), 18.
6. Servitisation is understood as the delivery of a service component as an added value in a manufacturing process.
7. Space does not permit this discussion to be expanded but the notion of a social licence being required of ‘big tech’ would be the 21st century equivalent of bringing the robber barons to heel in the 19th.
8. Klitou et al. (Citation2017).
9. The work and training committee is chaired by Jörg Hoffman, President of the powerful IG Metall union.
10. Berlin is the largest German city, with 3.5 million inhabitants. Only three other cities have populations above 1 million.
11. See for instance Zinke (Citation2019).
12. Although most join the union if they did not do so prior to election; IG Metall has developed specific training for elected WC reps.
13. The chair of the board, who casts the deciding vote if needed, is appointed by management.
14. The Morrison government’s decision in 2020 to cancel another promising bilateral industrial initiative, the Australian-German Energy Transition Hub, does not bode well for its interest in the I4AMF and other collaborative fora. See Morton (Citation2020).
15. OECD (Citation2017), Figure 4.10.
16. As opposed to their passionate advocacy for LNG and a supposed ‘gas-led recovery.’
17. See IG Metall (Citation2019a).
18. See IG Metall (Citation2019b).
19. See Sydney Morning Herald (Citation2004).
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Andrew Dettmer is National President of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
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