Michael Janda investigates for The Money."Australia has one of the most underdeveloped manufacturing sectors of any industrial country in the world," Dr Stanford told The Business.Dr Stanford estimates that increasing Australia's manufacturing self-sufficiency to 100 per cent could add another $180 billion a year in new manufacturing output, boost GDP by $50 billion a year and add more than 650,000 direct and indirect jobs."We call it a storm-ready response product, so what that means is that when a big storm hits we actually have the ability to make it on demand, which allows us to not to have to hold stock or have expenditure when we don't need it," he said.There was time when Australia manufactured almost everything, but today it's a very different story. Australian National University’s Brian Schmidt said before the Covid-19 crisis that he wanted to keep enrolments in check. The man, who does not want to be identified over fears his Visa could be cancelled, returned to Adelaide from Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province two weeks ago. Coronavirus update: Australia records coronavirus milestone For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic's peak in Australian the nation records a day with zero locally acquired cases of the disease.
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"Given I'm still perfectly healthy in this [quarantine] stint, I thought I might as well walk some marathons. Australian National University’s Brian Schmidt said before the Covid-19 crisis that he wanted to keep enrolments in check. But COVID-19 has exposed its fatal flaws, writes Stephen Long.Australia is last, producing about two thirds as much manufactured output as it consumes."We've seen quite a reasonable increase, probably two-fold from what we would normally get," founder and managing director Andy Sales said."Parts and components normally produced in northern Italy and other parts of Europe at the casting shops and forging shops, with the recent unfortunate COVID-19 environment shutting down a lot of this industry, some of these customers in Australia are looking for local solutions," said Mr Sales.The wealth created by exporting raw mineral and resources products was almost $290 billion last year.The widespread shutdown of global supply chains caused by COVID-19 has been good news for Adelaide metal printing company AML3D.Most other OECD countries produce, on aggregate, more manufactured goods than they consume.This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.His company makes metal parts, such as propellers and compressors for ships and the automotive industry, at its factory in Adelaide and exports them around the world."We found that traditional assumption is absolutely false."