"Catch 22" on overseas outsourcing

• Rees pulled into line over outsourcing >  LIVENEWS.com.au

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NSW Labor has ordered Premier Nathan Rees to stop outsourcing government work overseas.

The NSW ALP administrative committee unanimously passed a motion on the issue on March 6, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.  The premier has a week to reply to the motion.
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Mr Rees, following revelations almost all emergency services personnel uniforms were being made in China, said he feared China would retaliate if NSW stopped the contracts.

"We don't want to get in a tit-for-tat situation in which for example China stopped buying coal from NSW which would mean that a region like the Hunter would be decimated," he said.

Now, there's a "Catch 22" for you. 

If our governments are afraid of upsetting our trading partners and consequently our national economy, how can we expect them to stop the banks and big business from doing the same thing