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The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.

Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.

I believe we have the potential to quadruple Australia's food exports to Asia.

In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.

There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

Australia exports millions of tons of coal each year to Asian markets. These same countries are interested in Wyoming coal. I look forward to visiting and seeing a vibrant coal port to better understand the benefits and challenges associated with this method of export.

Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.