{"id":66801,"date":"2026-08-08T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66801"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:37:38","slug":"the-dark-story-of-the-comeng-train-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66801","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Story of the Comeng Train Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Not_Good_At_Building_Trains.jpg\" alt=\"Not Good At Building Trains\" width=\"1461\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Not_Good_At_Building_Trains.jpg 1461w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Not_Good_At_Building_Trains-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Not_Good_At_Building_Trains-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Not_Good_At_Building_Trains-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How to destroy a country&#8217;s manufacturing ability. A Case History.<\/p>\n<p>The major point this video fails to make is that all Australia&#8217;s political leaders since the 1972 Lima Agreement have been complicit in the destruction of industry. I read that the reasoning behind the Lima Agreement was that no country should be able to stand alone against global coercion and that if a single country had mineral wealth, mining capacity, manufacturing capability and food self-sufficiency they were harder to push around.<\/p>\n<p>Our &#8216;leaders&#8217; (read &#8216;traitors&#8217;) blew it big time!<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1042529858532510\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1042529858532510<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to destroy a country&#8217;s manufacturing ability. A Case History. The major point this video fails to make is that all Australia&#8217;s political leaders since the 1972 Lima Agreement have been complicit in the destruction of industry. I read that the reasoning behind the Lima Agreement was that no country should be able to stand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dark Story of the Comeng Train Factory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66804,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66801\/revisions\/66804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}