澳大利亚拥有领土770万平方公里,人口1600万。在五十年代,作为澳大利亚经济支柱的工业,就曾出现过严重的危机。至八十年代,在经受两次油价冲击的情况下,政府曾企图大力开发矿产资源来缓解油价造成的经济危机,结果失败。随着外国资本集团在太平洋地区的激烈竞争,原由澳大利亚供应的原料,改由泰国、菲律宾、印度和印尼等国供给,结果影响 Australia has 7.7 million square kilometers of territory and a population of 16 million. In the fifties, the industry, the backbone of Australia’s economy, had experienced a serious crisis. By the 1980s, under the impact of two oil prices, the government had tried to develop mineral resources to ease the economic crisis caused by the oil price. As a result, it failed. As foreign capital groups in the Pacific fierce competition, the original supply of raw materials from Australia to Thailand, the Philippines, India and Indonesia and other countries, the impact of the results