The fall into administration of Queensland company Claypave, established as Rylance Colliery and Brickworks in Ipswich in the 1880s, points to the huge problems of maintaining a manufacturing base in Australia with current government policies. Labor will only make it worse, if they are elected.
Brick making is a basic building industry, dating back at least 9000 years.
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