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The Restart - 'government and industry in partnership'.
- In
1976 I gave evidence to the Industries Assistance Commission that included
financing export sales on 6 months credit
- In
1977 I copyrighted my documents used to finance export sales and began
rebuilding JR Export Pty Ltd
- Disaster
for several exporters started when the Advertiser newspaper reported,
April 14, 1978, 'Exporters to get $66m.boost'.
- I
mistakenly accepted the offer of the Deputy Prime Minister (Hon Doug
Anthony) 'to make full use of the facilities and incentives being
offered, and gear themselves for a period of renewed export development'
and 'government and industry in partnership'
- I
mistakenly responded with a full time export effort from that day until
30 June 1979 by aiming to set up 1,000 Sheepskin Shop clients in the USA
- In
May 1978 I mistakenly convened a public seminar at the Hotel Australia.
- One
person who attended was Robert Semmens.
- The
Prime Minister of the time, Malcolm Fraser, was reported in the
Advertiser on 21 June 1978, 'My Government will, through predictable
policies give Australian industry the effective support and encouragement
it needs'.
- My
Associate, John Konstas and I mistakenly believed Fraser
- I
printed 100 copies of my 'Yellow Book' recommending that people form
partnerships to export sheepskin car seat covers and opal to the United
States of America (USA)
- Robert
Semmens, an accountant, attended with one or two associates and
expressed his interest.
- I
took copies of my Yellow Book to both the Export Development Grants
Board and to the Australian Taxation Office in Canberra to show them my
proposal of aiming to set up 1,000 Sheepskin Shop clients in the USA and
to invite their comments
- Later
in 1978 I took Semmens to New Zealand to meet my NZ business contacts
and to view some excellent NZ Sheepskin Shops for us to use as 'models'
when setting up the planned shops in USA.
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